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  • December 10, 1999 | The Recorder

    CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

    As thousands of people descended on Seattle to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization, unsuspecting lawyers found themselves in the thick of the tear gas and turtle power. For lawyers and s

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  • September 11, 2000 | National Law Journal

    Nonlawyers Running Firms

    There's a new breed of law firm manager in town -- a nonlawyer with executive decision-making power.Increasingly, firms -- from large-market leaders to small boutiques -- are elevating

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  • November 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

    Branch Offices

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  • October 14, 2013 | International

    Lawyers Still See Obstacles to Foreign M&A in Japan

    Following last month's $1.67 billion acquisition of Panasonic Corp.'s health care unit by KKR & Co., some are wondering if Japan Inc. is starting to cast off a longtime aversion

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  • October 7, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Import Ban Looms for Samsung in Apple Patent Fight

    Samsung Electronics Co. is hoping the White House will veto an order that would bar the company from importing some of its smartphones and tablets. But observers say the company and its lawy

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  • June 15, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bingham Poaches Pillsbury IP Talent

    Bingham McCutchen has poached Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partner William Abrams, who until recently headed the firm's IP litigation team. Abrams had been with Pillsbury for seven years

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  • May 17, 1999 | The Recorder

    FTC Drops Employment Law Bomb

    An opinion by the Federal Trade Commission is threatening to turn employment investigation laws upside down. Using a 1996 consumer protection statute, the FTC says lawyers who investigate wo

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  • August 9, 2007 | The Recorder

    Name Games Loom Large in Mergers

    LOS ANGELES � Peter Kalis was sitting with three other leaders of Preston Gates & Ellis and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham over lunch when they had a flash of inspiration: The

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  • August 26, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    Davis Polk Steps Up for BATS on Direct Edge Tie-Up

    About a week after a "connectivity issue&qu

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  • Mattel, Inc. v. MGA Entertainment, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-07-22
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-07-22
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel P. Collins (argued), Kelly M. Klaus, Aimee Feinberg and Mark Yohalem, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; and John B. Quinn, Susan R. Estrich, Michael T. Zeller and B. Dylan Proctor, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellee. Simon J. Frankel, Margaret D. Wilkinson and Steven D. Sassaman, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, California; Steven M. Freeman and Steven C. Sheinberg, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; and Michelle N. Deutchman, Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles, California, for amici Anti-Defamation League et al.
    for defendant: E. Joshua Rosenkranz (argued) and Lisa T. Simpson, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Annette L. Hurst and Warrington S. Parker III, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; and Thomas J. Nolan and Jason D. Russell, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellants.
    Case Number: No. 09-55673

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9316MATTEL, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-counter-claimantAppellee, v.MGA ENTERTAI