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  • August 5, 2004 | National Law Journal

    The Plaintiffs' Hot List

    BARON & BUDDDallas' Baron & Budd has won national recognition representing individuals and municipalities injured by exposure to hazardous substances, particularly asbes

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  • November 29, 1999 | The Recorder

    Seeds of Discontent

    If anyone symbolizes the growing battle over patenting plant life, it's Palo Alto's Loren Miller. Twenty-five years ago, Miller traveled into the Amazon rain forest looking for plants with m

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  • November 5, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Toyota plaintiffs unbowed

    The past year has not exactly been kind to plaintiffs attorneys pursuing sudden-acceleration claims against Toyota Motor Corp. In February, the U.S. government appeared to refute their most p

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  • September 30, 2005 | The Recorder

    Thousands Certified in FedEx Bias Case

    Race discrimination litigation against FedEx Express grew exponentially this week when a federal judge granted class certification to thousands of workers at the shipping company.U.S. District J

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  • February 20, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Fen-Phenomenal

    If the lead plaintiffs' lawyers in the fen-phen diet drug litigation get their way, the headlines a few months from now will announce that a federal judge has awarded them $567 million i

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  • June 16, 2003 | The Recorder

    A Matter of Trust

    Imagine, if you will, an oasis for plaintiffs' lawyers, where you can make new law, the bar is friendly on both sides of the aisle, there are few competitors and, of course, huge recover

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  • March 5, 2013 | The Recorder

    Food Label Cases Go to 'Food Court'

    Across the Bay Area, corporate attorneys with degrees from top law schools are considering the nutritional content of corn chips.And in their chambers, federal judges are in deep conte

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  • March 27, 2002 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: Martin Jenkins

    Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District Appointed: 1997, by President Clinton

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  • May 21, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Diet Drug Litigation Leads to Fat Fees

    A federal judge has awarded interim fees of more than $150 million to 83 plaintiffs' law firms for their work in the massive fen-phen diet drug litigation that led to a $3.75 billion class act

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  • May 28, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Plaintiffs lawyers 'like' Facebook IPO

    Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering has prompted a dash to the courthouse by plaintiffs attorneys representing shareholders who invested in the social-media giant. Meanwhile, the c

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