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  • January 22, 2007 | Legal Times

    Defections destroyed Dewey/Orrick merger

    Calling off an engagement is always messy. Two weeks after New York's Dewey Ballantine and San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe broke off talks that would have led to one of th

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  • June 3, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Thomas classmates doubt '15-cent degree'

    Why couldn't Clarence Thomas get a job with a big-city law firm when he graduated from Yale in 1974 It's not an idle question. That "time of dashed hopes and expectations," as Thomas

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  • February 10, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Advice From the Lawyer Who Won an Acquittal for a Top GC

    Even lawyers sometimes need their own lawyers. That's the lesson Stephen Neal learned from successfully defending Kent Roberts on stock option backdating charges last fall. Neal explains that he was r

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  • October 20, 2003 | The Recorder

    The Mating Game

    California's Biggest Law Firm Mergersa class="li

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  • October 21, 2004 | The Recorder

    Talking Points

    Law firms are paying a heck of a lot of money to get the answer to a perennial question: how to improve their relationships with clients.Morrison & Foerster, Pillsbury Winthrop, Gr

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  • July 17, 2006 | Legal Times

    Empowered Librarians

    Thomas Fleming is an old-school librarian who has learned a few new tricks. The director of information resources management at Jeffer, M

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  • September 27, 2005 | The Recorder

    Headhunting heats up in China market

    Earlier this year, New York-based recruiter Henry Lipschutz persuaded Kurt Berney, a prized partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to join O'Melveny & Myers' China practice.

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  • December 29, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    General Public Larceny?

    If The SCO Group Inc. has its way, the GNU General Public License is about to fail its first test in court. The GPL, as the GNU General Public License is known, governs the use and modificatio

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  • July 28, 2006 | The Recorder

    Federal Judge Attacks Rambus' Legal Tactics in Patent Cases

    Less than a week after a San Jose, Calif., federal judge slashed Rambus' $306 million award in its patent infringement case against Hynix Semiconductor Inc., another federal judge in Virginia piled

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  • August 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    The Lateral Race

    1977-Simpson Thacher recruits its first patent litigator, Henry Gutman, from Baker Botts. -Shearman & Sterling brings in Weil, Gotshal & Manges's IP litigation head, Sal

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