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May 03, 2000 |

With Mid-Level Associates, You Keep Who You Pay for

As reported last week, most of California's biggest law firms have upped first-year associates' base salaries to around $95,000, but many are still paying fourth-years only around $110,000. That's a 15 percent increase spread over three years -- not chump change, but hardly generous for firms scaling new heights of profitability in a boom economy.
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December 06, 2006 |

Where Will the Troubles End for Sonsini and HP?

Wilson Sonsini Chairman Larry Sonsini, who has plotted his career and his law firm's path to dominance with the precision and focus of a master, found himself this year in a place he never expected to be: testifying before Congress on his role as outside counsel to Hewlett-Packard, caught up in a boardroom spying scandal. Sonsini and his firm have faced criticism before -- over alleged conflicts and investments in client stock -- but now they face a crisis that might not blow over.
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May 24, 2004 |

Lawyers Fill Candidates' Coffers

The pressure to raise enormous sums for the presidential race is on, and lawyers are delivering. Law firms and individual attorneys have poured nearly $17 million into presidential campaigns within the last year, putting them on target to boost what they gave in the 2000 election by more than half. Says a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner who has pulled in more than $200,000, "We have money, we have awareness, and we have interest."
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July 21, 2004 |

Personal Politics

The first time Judith Droz Keyes attended a Democratic National Convention it was 1968, and she never made it inside. At the time, her husband was serving in Vietnam as a swift boat officer, in the same squadron as John Kerry. Eight months later, Keyes' husband died, spurring her to become more active in the anti-war movement. That's where she met Kerry. Keyes, a partner at Morrison & Foerster, is about to attend her second Democratic Convention -- only this time she'll be inside, as a delegate for Kerry.
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January 05, 2010 |

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FilmOn Founder Picks New Fight with Aereo
Publication Date: 2013-02-12
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The streaming TV service Aereo Inc. surely wants to focus on its do-or-die court battle with broadcasters. Unfortunately for Aereo and its backers, it keeps getting sucked into trademark battles with Alki David, the heir to a Greek shipping and bottling fortune who runs a competing service.

March 17, 2010 |

Nursing Sun Back to Health

After 30 years at O'Melveny, Michael Newman took a temporary gig as GC of Sun Healthcare in 2005. He liked it so much he's still on the job.
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IPotential's Pugnacious Troll Fighter Splits with Partner
Publication Date: 2010-01-14
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Former Intel in-houser Ron Epstein was determined to show you didn't need to file lawsuits to monetize patents. For five years he succeeded--but now he's in a whopper of a fight with his former partner. Somewhere, the trolls are smiling.

Whither the Billion-Dollar Verdict?
Publication Date: 2009-01-08
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Billion-dollar jury verdicts have become as rare as the ivory-billed woodpecker. According to data compiled by Bloomberg News, juries did not issue a single verdict of more than $1 billion in 2008, and served up only one in 2007--a $1.5 billion IP award against Microsoft that was later set aside by the judge in the case. That's a marked decline from the previous 14 years when, according to Bloomberg, there were 26 verdicts over $1 billion, including six over $5 billion.

A Closer Look at Congress and the Attorney-Client Privilege
Publication Date: 2009-09-21
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Why does Congress take the position that it doesn't have to recognize the privilege? Plus, a look back at how this issue played out before Congress in 2006.

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