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  • November 22, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Class Action Lawsuit Targets Title Insurers

    The lucrative 60 percent title insurance commissions that sweeten attorneys' return in real estate closings are routinely being siphoned away to droves of unlicensed, out-of-state interlopers lacki

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  • July 15, 2013 | The Recorder

    Lead Paint Trial Kicks Off in San Jose

    SAN JOSE — One hundred attorneys walk into a courtroom ... It's not the set-up for another lawyer joke but the actual scene in Santa Clara County Superior Court Judg

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  • January 30, 2001 |

    Mergers and Acquisitions 2001

    The following discussion thread excerpt is from a current law.com online seminar, "Mergers and Acquisitions 2001," moderated by Professor Jeffrey Gordon of Columbia Law School. For more inf

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  • August 10, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Former Comverse Executives Confront Backdating Charges

    Three former top executives at Woodbury-based Comverse Technology Inc., among them the company's former top lawyer, have been charged with fraudulently manipulating the dates on stock options.

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  • July 17, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Narrows Discovery for 9/11 Federal Claims

    Defendants being sued for negligence in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings will not be able to depose six FBI agents on the government's investigation into the attacks, Southe

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  • August 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Nortel Patent Auction The fight for smartphone supremacy led to a furious bidding war for the patents and patent applications of

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  • June 19, 2007 | The Recorder

    Brocade Backdating Trial Opens With Intent Defense

    Since Gregory Reyes became the first executive to be charged in the stock option backdating scandal nearly a year ago, worse transgressions have been alleged in indictments in several districts.

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  • January 17, 2006 | The Recorder

    Keker Matches Associate Salary Hikes

    Days after two big L.A. firms hiked base salaries for associates, San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest announced it was matching the raise.Keker partner Christopher Kearney said last week that t

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  • May 21, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Suits accuse cell carriers of spying

    The allegation a blogger laid out in a YouTube video seemed truly alarming — his smartphone was tracking his text messages and keystrokes, apparently recording his private thoughts. Voic

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  • February 21, 2007 |

    FCC to Review Satellite Radio Merger

    Federal Communications Commission staffers agreed to examine the $13 billion merger of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., though a key agency official acknowledges th

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