• March 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    TiVo Against the Giants

    TiVo Inc. has market presence that companies 10 times its size can only dream of. The little black box that it sells gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, making it th

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  • June 16, 2000 | The Recorder

    Women Making Progress, but Not Enough

    Congratulations to Donna Petkanics on her promotion to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's managing director of operations.Petkanics' step up the ladder stre

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  • July 25, 2001 | The Recorder

    Stop the Clock

    When Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison boosted salaries for its first-year associates by a hefty $10,000 in January, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest consumers of legal services decid

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  • June 9, 2005 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Fight Turns to Venue Choice

    A public sparring match is set to take place between Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of now-defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Ronald Greenspan, the firm's bankruptcy trustee.

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  • August 25, 2006 | The Recorder

    Q&A

    Silicon Valley veteran Mary Doyle came to Palm Inc. during a period in 2003 when competitor RIM was locking horns with NTP in a patent dispute that would later be resolved by a $612 million se

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  • June 20, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Facebook Agrees to $10 Mil. Fund to Settle Privacy Suit

    Facebook Inc. and plaintiffs attorneys haveagreed to put $10 million into a fund forprivacy foundations to settle a proposed classaction over the site's "Sponsored Stories" feature, a

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  • Jason Scott Hearst v. Progressive Foam Technologies, Inc.; Bill Larman

    Publication Date: 2011-06-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2011-06-08
    Court: 8th Cir.
    Judge: Wollman, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10-1253

    Submitted: January 11, 2011Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.On May 1, 2007, Progressive Foam Technologies (PFT) fired Jason Hearst for job abandonment. Hearst-who had been

  • April 21, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Clemens' Lawyers Dispute Claims of Privilege

    Houston-based criminal defense lawyer Russell Hardin Jr. warned a federal judge in Washington in December that the congressional committee and law firm that investigated drug use in Major League Ba

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  • October 21, 2003 | Alm

    Getting the Most From a Merger: Firms Play the Mating Game

    The ink was barely dry on their merger agreement when the heads of Reed Smith and Crosby Heafey Roach & May began trekking around the country together to woo each other's clients.

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  • December 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Inadmissible

    ON CERTS, SOTOMAYOR IS LEADING DISSENTER In her second term on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is dusting off a little-used tradition as

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