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  • February 8, 2006 | The Recorder

    Test Case Coming for Judicial Branch

    SACRAMENTO � First Amendment advocates sued the Riverside County Superior Court Tuesday to pry open a secret settlement struck with a former employee, creating a potential test case that could

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  • April 25, 2011 | The Recorder

    Banks Lawyer Up for Failed Mortgage Lawsuits

    LAST SPRING, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco hit a whole mob of financial institutions with a lawsuit demanding money back for residential mortgage-backed bonds gone bad. In the summer,

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  • September 11, 2008 | The Recorder

    In price-fixing probes, all eyes on Samsung

    When the Justice Department dropped its price-fixing hammer on the computer memory market three years ago, Samsung Electronics got hit hardest. That was then. For more than a year, ant

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  • March 7, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Howrey to Vote on Dissolving This Week

    Amid a stream of departures, partners at Howrey are set to vote this week on whether to dissolve the law firm, according

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  • October 10, 2008 | International Edition

    Leaked document gives details of Heller debt, assets

    A leaked copy of Heller Ehrman's dissolution plan shows a firm that has a good chance of avoiding bankruptcy -- if it can collect unpaid bills and liquidate assets with the success promised o

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  • May 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Expectations Clash in Date Suits

    Hoping to find a friend or a lover, two dating service customers say they instead discovered they'd been ripped off.And though they never dated each other, Glen Howells and Stephanie H

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  • October 24, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bingham Grabs Backdating Prosecutor

    Given the whirlwind of backdating allegations, Haywood Gilliam couldn't have picked a better time to change employers. Until last month, Gilliam headed up the securities fra

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  • January 30, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Salaries rise, so does debt

    Runaway costs for a legal education are threatening to trample any optimism among law school graduates created by recent associate salary increases at the nation's top law firms.

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  • October 9, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    A Question of Raising Rates

    As the economy continued its downward spiral this past year, attorneys were quick to tell clients that they feel their pain. Over the next few months, as rates for 2009 are set, they wil

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  • November 15, 2006 | Lawfirminc.

    Decisions, Decisions ...

    What role should a firm's C-level executives play in key firm decisions? It's taken for granted at most firms that C-levels should be involved in budgeting, personnel, space and technology iss

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