• December 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    California Death Spiral

    When it comes to death sentences, the Alameda County, Calif., district attorney's office had a rough year. Prosecutors pursued five capital cases but only got the death penalty in o

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  • May 14, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Defense Claims Refco Officials Lied to Lawyer About Fraud

    Mayer Brown partner Joseph P. Collins was kept out of the loop on hidden debt and sham transactions at Refco Inc. and should not be sitting in the defendant's chair, his attorney claimed

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  • August 3, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Rumble in the Alley

    When it came time for Silicon Alley-based MaxManager Corp., an online shopping organizer, to hire an outside law firm, chief executive Mordechai Beizer knew who he wanted. "Our very short list

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  • May 4, 2011 | The Recorder

    Obama Taps Gonzalez Rogers for Walker's Seat

    SAN FRANCISCO — President Obama today formally nominated Alameda County Superior Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for the district court seat vacated earlier this year by Vaughn Walker. ./p

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  • October 22, 2004 | The Recorder

    Commander in Chief, Esq.

    America's Lawyer-PresidentsFrom Law Office to Oval OfficeNorman Gross (ed.)Northwestern University Press and ABA Museum of Law/$39.95I'll never forget th

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  • September 4, 2008 | Legal Pad

    Texas Lawmaker Messes With Cooley

    Legal Pad: Keeping its distance from Charlize Theron. Read the latest posts on the main page, or sample a la carte: a h

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  • December 8, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

    Divorce Court, Corporate-Style: Craigslist Tries to Break Up With eBay

    With the benefit of hindsight, it seems pretty clear that the couple was mismatched from the first date. But only one of them wants a divorce. table width="300" cellpadding="3" border="0" alig

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  • October 8, 2007 | Legal Times

    On the Move

    EPSTEIN BECKER & GREENLeslie Norwalk, 41, has joined Epstein Becker & Green's D.C. office as a strategic adviser on health policy issues. Norwalk was previously act

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  • September 1, 2004 | The American Lawyer

    Inside the Deal: Escape Artists

    It's a central issue in every merger negotiation: Under what conditions may the parties terminate the agreement? Though the terms get a lot of attention when the contract is written, they're r

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  • August 11, 2009 | The Recorder

    Paul, Hastings Lures Star Skadden Patent Litigator

    Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker poached a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday. Jeffrey Randall, best known for his representa

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