• September 15, 2008 | The Recorder

    Sunny Side Up

    As the hot, young clean-tech industry matures, companies are hiring and searching for general counsel that have the hard-to-come-by blend of energy business and startup lawyer skills. b

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  • August 7, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

    New Deals

    TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP ACQUIRES SMURFIT-STONE CONTAINER CORP. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett represented Texas Pacific Group of Fort Worth in the buyout company's purchase of the c

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  • November 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Federal Circuit: Prosecution Delay Makes Patent Unenforceable Only When There is Prejudice

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that an applicant's lengthy delay in prosecuting a patent makes the patent unenforceable only if there is prejudice to other parties.

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  • March 22, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Corporate Campaign Finance Pitfalls

    As the election year gets under way, it's important for general counsel at politically active corporations to review federal election laws and to look at how the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

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  • February 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary: Frank Menaker comes on board as partner in the firm's Washington office. He was previously at Lockheed Martin Corp., where he se

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  • March 5, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Pellicano Defendant's Firm Weathers the Storm

    Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro, a 100-lawyer firm based in Los Angeles, just bagged a new client in one

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  • September 6, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Avoiding privilege and work-product waiver

    Having work product or attorney-client communications from an internal investigation of corporate wrongdoing used against your corporate client by private litigants is always unpleasan

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  • March 17, 2004 | The Recorder

    Hello, Bay Area

    A funny thing happened on the way to the economic recovery in California. During the steepest economic downturn in Northern California history, in 2001-02 -- with at least 200,000 unemployed i

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  • January 5, 2004 | Legal Times

    D.C. Circuit Showdown Over Yucca Mountain

    A battle over a planned nuclear waste storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nev., that has spanned almost two decades will reach what could be a final legal showdown in a federal appeals c

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  • June 7, 2013 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    SAN FRANCISCOBarg Coffin Lewis & Trapp has added David Metres as an associate. Previously with Paul Hastings, Metres focuses on regulatory, e

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