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June 30, 1999 |

Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office

Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years of setbacks for the office, ends a 20-year run in the Valley for a firm that waged landmark IP wars on behalf of Apple Computer Inc. and Intel Corp.
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Chevron v. Donziger: The Money Man
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
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Day Two of trial in Chevron's fraud and RICO case against Steven Donziger and his Ecuadorian allies centered on the testimony of Christopher Bogart, founder and CEO of the prominent U.S.-based litigation financier Burford Capital.

In Subpoena Spat with Deloitte, No Easy Day for SEC Lawyers
Publication Date: 2013-03-14
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Deloitte's lawyers at Latham & Watkins and Sidley Austin faced off with their SEC counterparts for three hours on Wednesday in their battle over audit papers for a Chinese company.

December 01, 2009 |

Law Firm Leaders Survey 2009

Law firm leaders detail the short-term measures they've taken to cut costs.
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The Global Lawyer: Chevron's Ecuador Case Veers Off Script at Second Circuit Hearing
Publication Date: 2011-09-18
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John Keker, who represents plaintiffs' lawyer Steven Donziger, warned that Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan is marching toward a "show trial" on the issue of "whether Ecuador stinks," with the Ecuadorian plaintiffs "tethered to a stick like a goat." Luckily for the goat, it may at last have found a receptive audience in New York.

February 04, 2005 |

Prepaid Cell Phone Lawsuit Generating Fat Legal Fees

When cell phones first appeared, many people were left out of the new craze because they couldn't pass a credit check. A pair of Arizona entrepreneurs claim they came up with the solution -- pre-paid accounts. But Douglas Fougnies and Dan Harned charge that another company, Boston Communications Group Inc., began infringing their patents, shutting them out of the market. The dispute could be costly for the cell phone industry. Fougnies and Harned have sued BCG and several carriers for as much as $1 billion.
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October 28, 2002 |

Chart: Out-of-Towners

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Raging Battle Over Copyright
Publication Date: 2013-09-16
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Frank "Peter" Petrella helped world middleweight champion Jake LaMotta teach actor Robert De Niro how to box for the Academy Award-winning film Raging Bull. Now Petrella's daughter is taking those fight lessons into a different arena — the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 07, 2004 |

Second Opinions: Constructing Your Web Site

Thinking of revamping an existing Web site or launching an entirely new one for your firm? Before you move forward, read some advice from lawyers and tech professionals and find out how to make your site "sticky." (That's a good thing.) And one more quick tip: forget the plug-ins, OK?
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L.A. Judge Rejects Defense Challenge to Prosecution's Definition of 'Foreign Official' Under FCPA
Publication Date: 2011-04-04
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Given that 60 percent of the DOJ's FCPA enforcement actions last year involved alleged bribes to employees of state-owned companies, a lot was riding on Lindsey Manufacturing's argument that Congress didn't intend those employees to be considered foreign officials under FCPA. Judge Matz's ruling hewed closely to the specific facts before him, leaving open the possibility that another defendant may yet succeed in a similar challenge.

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