• October 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    CNET General Counsel Steps Down Over Stock Options Probe

    It's not clear whether the latest lawyer to go down because of stock option backdating was involved in the actual decision to award suspect options. But a Recorder review of SEC filin

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  • June 27, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    Judge orders DLA Piper to give documents to Roger Clemens

    Lawyers for Roger Clemens won access to information the law firm DLA Piper wanted to keep secret from the defense team on the ground the attorney work product doctrine shielded the documents from d

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  • August 22, 2001 | The Recorder

    William Godward

    There was no such thing as an IPO when William Godward started his career at the firm that bears his name."If you wanted to issue stock, you just went down to the stationery store, got

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  • June 21, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Movers

    New partners Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Peter A. Miller comes on board as partner and as head of the firm's real estate practice in New York. Cliffor

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  • August 11, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Subpoenas Fly In at Firm While Clients Clear Out Amidst Political Scandal

    California Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr. has subpoenaed records from Best Best & Krieger in an investigation of the pay packages for city officials in Bell, Calif., wh

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  • May 7, 2007 | The Recorder

    More Calif. Firms Follow Orrick's Move to $160K Associate Pay

    The dominoes are falling in the latest round of associate salary increases. O'Melveny & Myers and Morrison & Foerster announced that they'll follow Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff

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  • Northern California River Watch v. Wilcox

    Publication Date: 2010-08-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-08-25
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack Silver, Law Office of Jack Silver, Santa Rosa, California, for plaintiffs-appellants Northern California River Watch and Robert G. Evans.
    for defendant: Christopher J. Carr, Shaye Diveley, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees William R. Schellinger and Frank H. Schellinger, dba Schellinger Brothers, and Scott Schellinger. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of the State of California, James Humes, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Matt Rodriguez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert W. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Michael W. Neville, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Carl Wilcox, Gene Cooley, and Robert Floerke. Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Mergen, Attorney, Ellen Durkee, Attorney, Bradford T. McLane, Attorney, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, David Gayer, of Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae United States of America.

    Case Number: No. 08-15780

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 11129NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RIVER WATCH, a non-profit corporation; ROBERT G. EVANS, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. p c

  • February 9, 2000 | The Recorder

    Deal of the Week: Ask Jeeves Scores A Direct Hit With Acquisition

    Attorneys at Cooley Godward helped Emeryville's Ask Jeeves Inc. acquire Direct Hit Technologies Inc. last week in a de

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  • January 23, 2003 | The Recorder

    Rock Bottom Returns to California

    If there are any lingering questions over why the Bay Area's largest law firms saw revenues drop last year, look no farther than their idled corporate lawyers.According to Thomso

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  • July 5, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Pitcher's Case on Deck, Litigators Take a Look at the Lineup

    Roger Clemens has long denied he used performance-enhancing drugs during his Major League Baseball career, one that spanned more than two decades and included repeat trips to All-Star games. p

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