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  • August 31, 2009 | The Recorder

    Cooley Attracts IP Trio From White & Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — After losing a number of key partners in recent weeks, Cooley Godward Kronish is picking up three IP litigators from White & Case. Palo Alto partners Heidi Keef

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  • December 1, 2006 | Legal Times

    DLA Piper Partners Leave for Cooley Godward

    Lawyers' firm-swapping usually slows down once bonus time nears, but two longtime DLA Piper partners bucked the trend last week, jumping to Cooley Godward Kronish. Gregory Smith, chairman of

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  • October 13, 2003 | The Recorder

    Orrick, Herrington Banks on the Future

    It's Monday morning in a bland, brown conference room at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Sansome Street fortress in San Francisco, and Ralph Baxter Jr. has just plunked a glossy, Or

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  • January 9, 2003 | The Recorder

    Cooley Godward to Close Seattle-Area Office

    Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cooley Godward plans to close its Kirkland, Wash., office this month following the departure of two partners to San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

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  • July 17, 2007 | The Recorder

    Cooley Sets Up Boston Office

    The striking similarities between the tech markets in Silicon Valley and Boston have largely been ignored by California firms as most continue to target their East Coast strategies on New York

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  • May 7, 2012 | National Law Journal

    COOLEY

    In 1980, Cooley Godward was one of the first San Francisco firms to open an office in Silicon Valley — four years before Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg was born. Ever s

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  • August 28, 2012 | The Recorder

    Former Cooley Managing Partner Lee Benton, 1944-2012

    SAN FRANCISCO — Lee Benton, a former managing partner of Cooley during the heady years of the dot-com boom, died Friday due to complications following surgery. He was 68. Benton h

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  • September 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    No More Pure Plays

    Remember 2000? Remember when the technology bubble burst? Law firms that had placed heavy bets on that sector reeled. Revenues and profits dropped, associates were shed, and partners wer

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  • November 24, 2010 | The Recorder

    Cooley Concedes AG's Race to Harris

    SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Cooley conceded the attorney general race to Kamala Harris today. Harris' victory caps a tight race, in which the vote lead flipped several times since electi

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  • September 12, 2003 | Alm

    Is Firm Liable For Girl's Death?

    A girl is dead. And the civil trial against Jane Wagner, the driver who hit her, has come down to this: Was Wagner a lawyer or a client at the moment her car struck 15-year-old Naeun Yoon?

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