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  • February 15, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Question of Degree

    The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could have a broad impact on patent law, defining the boundaries for researchers who use competitors' patents to develop new products and inno

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  • August 29, 2001 | The Recorder

    Firms Quietly Lose Lawyer Weight

    Last Thursday's decision by Cooley Godward to lay off 86 associates was a very public step in a year-long effort by San Francisco Bay Area firms to trim their attorney ranks in the wake of the

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  • October 7, 2003 | The Recorder

    Judicial Profile: Leslie Tchaikovsky

    COURT: Northern District of California Bankruptcy Court, Oakland DivisionAPPOINTED: April 14, 1988, by Judge James BrowningDATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 6, 1943

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  • March 12, 2007 | Alm

    Panel: Top Law Firms May Face Rough Future

    Will the good times cease to roll for leading law firms? With some gloom - though not so much doom - industry observers forecasted a cooling of the legal market over the next five years at the

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  • July 11, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Part 2 of 2: House of Cards: Dewey's golden handcuffs

    Editor's note: This is the second part of a four-part feature that appears in the July/August issue of The American Lawyer, a Daily Report affiliate. Parts three and four wil

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  • August 20, 2002 | The Recorder

    Brobeck Pays to Keep First-Year Associates at Bay

    Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is offering to pay some first-year associates as much as $3,000 per month not to show up for work until January 2004.To deal with the decline in work ov

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  • May 12, 2006 | The Recorder

    Six Days, Six Lawyers, $24 Billion

    Golden West Financial Corp. General Counsel Michael Roster used to tell outside lawyers in speeches that there were certain firms he would call in to do a major transaction, or ("God forbid") a maj

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  • January 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Clifford Chance Head to Relocate To New York, Build U.S. Practices

    In a move to affirm his law firm's commitment to the U.S. market, Clifford Chance'S global managing partner, Peter Cornell, has announced he will relocate to New York. Mr. Cornell, 52

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  • July 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    PLEASANTON'S HYDE GETS FINAL HEARINGJudge D. Ronald Hyde, the Pleasanton jurist who could lose his robe for ethical lapses, will have his final Commission on Judicial Performanc

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  • August 24, 2000 | New York Law Journal

    Non-Compete Pacts Not a Sure Thing

    In these times of unprecedented mobility, employers are increasingly turning to non-compete agreements in an attempt to slam the door shut on would-be job-hoppers. Yet as the use of these agre

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