• April 8, 2010 | The Associated Press

    Leahy won't delay hearing for appeals court pick

    WASHINGTON AP - Senate Democrats have rejected a Republican effort to delay a hearing for a liberal appeals court nominee, making clear they are ready for a partisan fight. A hearing f

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  • March 18, 2010 | The Recorder

    Asian-American Advocacy Groups Nudge Nominees to Federal Bench

    SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Levin, a Bush Justice Department refugee who landed at White & Case in Washington, D.C., got a call in January from Bijal Vakil, head of the firm's Palo Alto of

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  • May 18, 2005 | Legal Times

    D.C. Circuit Nominee Means Business

    In a decision last month, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown wrote that a California water board had so complicated a series of straightforward issues that it made her "wanna

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  • January 4, 2010 | The Recorder

    Monthly Lateral Report

    California lateral partner movements for December 2009 Partner

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  • May 1, 2008 |

    IP People on the Move

    Wei Zhou moved to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner, leaving behind his job at Santa Clara, California?based biotech Affymetrix, Inc. Zhou started at Affymetrix in 1999 as an in-hou

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  • May 11, 2007 | The Recorder

    Has Heller's Growth Strategy Backfired in San Diego?

    An aggressive growth strategy in Heller Ehrman's corporate practice was meant to give the litigator-heavy firm broader stability. But in San Diego, it's led instead to instability, sending some top

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  • May 16, 2005 | Legal Times

    What Kind of D.C. Circuit Judge Would Brown Be?

    WASHINGTON -- In a decision last month, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown wrote that a California water board had so complicated a series of straightforward issues that it m

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  • July 31, 2006 | Legal Times

    Iraqi arms-deal case collapses

    When Sabri and Regard Yakou were arrested in the fall of 2003 for brokering an arms deal with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, their case created a welcome media splash for the U.S. g

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  • January 3, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Real Estate Attorneys Become Corporate Dealmakers

    Real estate attorneys, long known as "dirt lawyers," are adopting more of the deal-making skills of their corporate counterparts as they get pulled deeper into the real estate sector's surging

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  • January 19, 2006 | New York Law Journal

    Whistleblowers

    Corporate whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley securities law stops at the U.S. border, said the first U.S. appellate court to address the issue. The U.S. Court of

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