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  • December 8, 1999 |

    Recent Delaware Cases Spark Debate Over Future of No-Talk Provisions

    Are no-talk clauses in stock-for-stock merger agreements dead in Delaware? Three recent cases from the Delaware Chancery Court appear to allow a board of directors to consider other merger offers e

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  • April 26, 1999 | National Law Journal

    Supreme Court Could Redefine ADA This Term

    Washington--When the Supreme Court this term decides a record five cases involving the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), one disability rights advocate fervently hopes that the act "survives w

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  • October 19, 2001 |

    Is Credit Suisse Trying to Settle IPO Probe?

    Credit Suisse First Boston is reportedly trying to negotiate a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the bank's allocation of shares in hot technology initial public

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  • January 31, 2006 | Alm

    Alito's 'Murder Board' A Mix of the Legal Elite

    The well-handled U.S. Supreme Court nominee is now a fixture in the political process, and much of the credit goes to those so-called murder boards, or preparation sessions for the Senate conf

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  • October 31, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

    Pfizer Litigators Endure Beast of a Beauty Contest

    It was a cold day for a beauty contest. On a blustery morning last December, a small army of product liability lawyers tried not to slip on the ice as they made their way to the Plaza Hotel in

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  • March 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    High Court Justices, Legal Luminaries Debate Shakespeare's 'Henry V'

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sitting as chief justice for a change, invoked law beyond the U.S. Constitution on Tuesday night. First, she analyzed French succession law, or Sa

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  • May 9, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    FTC v. UNOCAL

    Monopoly power hasn't come easily for the Union Oil Company of California (Unocal). In a complaint this March, the Federal Trade Commission challenged patents held by the El Segundo, Californi

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  • October 20, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers

    NEW POSITIONS. . . Phillip H. Schmandt, a commercial real estate and business attorney, has joined Austin's McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore as of counsel. Ray Chester

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  • September 23, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    The Art of Destruction

    In September 1998 Rambus Inc. began to implement its new "document retention" program. The program was inaugurated on a day that was proclaimed "Shred Day" by Rambus' senior executives. Employ

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  • February 25, 2004 | Legal Times

    Round 1 Goes to Rambus in Fight With FTC

    In a blow to one of the Federal Trade Commission's largest and most ambitious proceedings, an administrative law judge last week dismissed the agency's antitrust case against Rambus Inc.

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