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  • August 15, 2011 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    CRACK RULES RETROACTIVE A federal appeals court has ruled that the new, more lenient sentencing rules for crack cocaine must be applied retroactively so that every

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  • People v Morrison

    Publication Date: 2010-03-11
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    Court: Appellate Division, 3rd Dept
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    Case Number: 101805

    Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Third Judicial Department Decided and Entered: March 11, 2010 101805 THE PEOPL

  • August 21, 2006 | Legal Times

    Can a Third Party Subpoena the Feds?

    Does a civil litigant in federal court have the power to subpoena government documents if the government is not a party? This may seem to be a basic question, but its answer has been s

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  • May 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Summertime Blues

    As part of the first batch of summer associates at Fenwick & West's Palo Alto, Calif., office this year, Catherine Bernard was welcomed by firm chairman Gordon Davidson and hiring partner

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  • September 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Law schools give cold shoulder to transparency project

    The Law School Transparency project's push to collect better data about how well recent law school graduates are doing in the job marke

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  • November 2, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Former Client Sues Seyfarth Shaw, Claiming Malpractice

    Supply chain management company PCG Trading LLC is suing Seyfarth Shaw and four of its current and former Boston attorneys for failing to minimize PCG's risk of paying judgments in employment cases

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  • September 26, 2008 | The Recorder

    Struggling Heller Calls It Quits

    After 118 years, San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman will dissolve in a partnership vote today. In a firmwide &

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  • June 16, 2004 | The Recorder

    Clifford's Last Chance? Firm Backs Palo Alto Partner

    Reeling from defections from its San Francisco office, Clifford Chance appears to be throwing a rope to its California practice by voting a Silicon Valley partner into its firmwide Partnership

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  • February 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Law Firm Roundup

    Morrison & Foerster Cuts 53 Lawyers, 148 Staff San Francisco giant Morrison & Foerster cut 53 lawyers and 148 staff last week, adding to the mountin

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  • January 8, 2004 | The Recorder

    IPO Market Sags Again in 2003

    It doesn't take much these days to be a leading player among law firms that handle initial public offerings. During the Internet boom, a firm had to handle as many as 100 IPOs to be co

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