• November 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Danger in the Bargain Bin

    Silicon Valley is littered with so many struggling technology companies that deals between two healthy companies are rare.More often than not, the target in a mergers and acquisi

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  • February 23, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Nonprofit Litigates Largest Employment Discrimination Class Action Ever to Go to Trial

    Attorney Brad Seligman was on a hunt to find out whatever he could about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after hearing about a potential claim of alleged sex discrimination against the retailer in 1999.

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  • December 30, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Pop-Up Advertising Enjoined in Trademark Suit

    A Manhattan federal judge has enjoined an Internet advertiser from delivering "pop-up" ads to visitors of a retail Web site.Contact lens retailer 1-800 Contacts Inc. requested the inju

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  • May 24, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

    newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS . . . Joseph G. "Chip" Galagaza has been elected partner in the Houston office of Seyfarth Shaw. He works in the firm's labor and employment practice. . .

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  • November 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firms Promote Fewer Senior Associates to Partnership

    Fewer associates are winning promotion to partnership this year, a trend industry experts say is a result of the economic downturn. This month,

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  • October 18, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Tort Claims Fail Over Carvel's Marketing Plan

    Carvel Ice Cream store owners whose franchises were undercut when the company began marketing its products in supermarkets cannot sustain a claim for economic interference under New York law,

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  • November 24, 2003 | The Recorder

    On The Move

    SAN FRANCISCOCoblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass has added Marlena Byrne as an associate in the real estate practice. Previously with Shute, Mihaly & Wein

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  • January 11, 2010 | The Recorder

    Walker at Work: What to Expect

    SAN FRANCISCO — As an epic civil rights trial kicks off today in San Francisco, the ultimate constitutionality of same-sex marriage is perhaps the least important decision Chief Judge Vau

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  • April 5, 2000 | Alm

    Will Microsoft Ever Learn?

    Despite the incessant speculation that the government is demanding a breakup of Microsoft Corp., The National Law Journal has learned that the government last week put a remedy on the table that w

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  • October 29, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Overcoming Bar Exam Stress

    The bar examination: It is a rite of passage, a common experience that binds lawyers together across many states and practice areas and across private and public sectors. And yet, so many law

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