• August 9, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Milwaukee firms look elsewhere for growth

    Randall Crocker has learned the art of maneuvering. As the president and chief executive of 110-lawyer von Briesen & Roper in Milwaukee, he is seeing an uptick, small as it may be, in mergers a

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  • August 2, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Patent Reform Finds Traction

    Legislating patent reform is like finding a recipe to feed diverse cultures that long have hated each other's foods.But now that major patent reform bills have come out of the "oven" and ont

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  • July 8, 2010 | Daily Business Review

    BigLaw Firms Band Together to Protest New Limits on Their Web Sites

    MIAMI - While the American Civil Liberties Union and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from a strict proposal for regulating lawyer Web sites, Florida&r

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  • July 26, 2004 | The Recorder

    Life in San Diego

    With all its life sciences startups, San Diego looks like promising terrain for law firm expansion. But as countless firms have found, building an office there is harder than it looks. Among o

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  • August 25, 2006 | The Recorder

    Company Man

    Hewlett-Packard Company's Jeffery Fromm is one of a dying breed: a company man. The 58-year-old patent lawyer has spent close to his entire career at HP, starting as an engineer in the company

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  • July 25, 2005 | The Recorder

    Glass Ceiling Lifts at More San Francisco Firms

    The glass ceiling at Bay Area law offices has lifted a bit during the past few years, according to a Bar Association of San Francisco survey released last week. Almost two-thirds of the firms re

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  • November 3, 2005 | The Recorder

    Lawsuits Stem the Tide of GC Applicants for New Research Center

    With an Alameda County judge deciding whether the measure that formed California's new stem cell research institute is constitutional, 72 applicants for the complex job of general counsel are

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  • April 19, 2010 | The Recorder

    5 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO

    The U.S. Senate moved one step closer to pulling the trigger on the "nuclear option" on judicial filibusters after the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed through two of President Bush's most controv

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  • June 2, 2005 | The Recorder

    High Court is of Two Minds on Jury Trial Waivers

    LOS ANGELES -- A growing and controversial practice whereby companies agree to waive potential jury trials in civil cases long before any dispute arises received a healthy debate by the Califo

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  • January 28, 2005 | Special To Law.Com

    The Real Price of Linux Software

    As litigation between The SCO Group and IBM rages on and with SCO threatening to file suits against Linux users, businesses have become justifiably concerned over their use of open-source software.

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