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  • November 24, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    How Refco Probe Snagged Mayer Brown

    On June 26, 2007, Barry Colvert arrived at the midtown Manhattan office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Colvert is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who has given polygraph

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  • June 30, 2005 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    DOMESTIC PARTNERS RULING LEFT INTACTThe California Supreme Court had Judge Loren McMaster's back Wednesday.When the Sacramento County Superior Court judge upheld an expa

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  • November 20, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bankruptcy Lawyers Adjust to Drought

    An improving economy isn't good news for everyone. With fewer businesses going broke, the pace of traditional work for bankruptcy lawyers has slowed considerably � for now.Industry exp

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  • June 1, 2006 | National Law Journal

    As venture capitalists lose immunity, litigators gain work

    Lawsuits rarely ever happened in Silicon Valley's venture capital community. The notoriously clubby circle of high-net-worth individuals who helped fuel the Internet boom of the '90s has

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  • May 8, 2008 | The Recorder

    Ex-Prosecutor to Hunt Software Pirates

    Software pirates beware. Ross Nadel, the former criminal chief of the San Francisco U.S. attorney's office, has joined Adobe Systems Inc. as senior legal counsel of worldwi

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  • August 13, 1999 | The Recorder

    Portfolio Plunge

    The stock market's summer doldrums have made the icing a little less sweet for Silicon Valley lawyers awaiting stock distributions from firm investment pools.Lawyers at Cooley Godward, for e

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  • April 20, 2009 | The Recorder

    Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move

    Silicon ValleyKristen Kercher has joined Cooley Godward Kronish as a partner in Palo Alto. Kercher

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  • March 21, 2008 | The Recorder

    North San Diego: Legal Paradise?

    DEL MAR HEIGHTS � When lawyers in Latham & Watkins' North San Diego office want to attract recruits, they take them to lunch at nearby cafes overlooking the beach.With surfers belo

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    The Local Talent: Results by City

    Summer associates around the country ranked the firms where t

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  • January 5, 2001 | The Recorder

    The Color of Money

    The San Francisco Bay Area's leading law firms took a cash-rich rocket ride in 2000, hampered little by a stock-battered technology industry and spiraling labor costs, The Recorder's an

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