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February 25, 2005 |

Wilson Sonsini Helps Crank Up the Volume on Dolby's IPO

The sound of a single stockholder unloading 17 million shares reverberated in the ears of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Thomas DeFilipps on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the closing bell -- heard anew in surround sound -- on the first day of Dolby's IPO. Dolby's public launch was no ordinary tech company offering. One challenge was deciding how the IP of Ray Dolby, the company's founder and for many years its only stockholder, would be transferred to the company.
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March 01, 2007 |

High Court Debates Suit Against White House's Faith-Based Initiative

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer looked skyward Wednesday as he tried to come up with a "more amazing" hypothetical during arguments in a key church-state case. With or without divine intervention, he found one: Could the federal government fund churches and ministers of a single religion "dedicated to the proposition that this particular sect is the true sect," without fear of taxpayer lawsuits against it? "Horrible hypothetical," growled Solicitor General Paul Clement, but he went on to say yes.
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May 30, 2013 |

Cascades Takes Another Run at RPX

A non-practicing entity descended from the original "patent troll" returns to federal court to take on a self-described troll-fighter.
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May 11, 2000 |

Legal Fees in Securities Case More Than $32.4 Mil.

A federal judge awarded more than $32.4 million in fees to the team of plaintiffs' lawyers who secured a $111 million settlement in the class-action securities fraud suit against IKON Office Solutions. Senior U.S. District Judge Marvin Katz announced final approval of the settlement as well as approval of a related $5 million settlement of a derivative suit.
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April 08, 2010 |

Every Girl's Crazy About a Sharp-Dressed Man

I will occasionally stop at the supermarket on my way home after work. Being the friendly sort, as attorneys go, I may strike up a conversation with someone in the checkout line or with a clerk. Often, I get a variation of "So, you're a lawyer, huh?"
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Bergstein Lawyer Says $50 Million Verdict Is 'Tremendous' News for Film Financier's Case Against Stroock
Publication Date: 2012-08-22
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A Los Angeles jury handed film financier David Bergstein a big win this week in his case against attorney Susan Tregub. And according to one of Bergstein's lawyers, the verdict is also very good news for his separate suit against Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and others.

April 06, 2010 |

The lawyer makes the uniform, or is it the other way around?

Such dress as I usually wear denotes business and business of a fair degree of formality. But couldn't I be a banker just as well?
4 minute read
September 18, 2012 |

Fulton jury rejects condo board's legal-mal claims

A Fulton County jury has rejected legal malpractice claims against Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco and former partner Jay Lazega, finding that the lawyers were not negligent in their handling of a complex construction liability case brought several years ago by a condo association for the upscale Phoenix on Peachtree tower and turning aside the plaintiff's request for more than $3 million in damages.
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October 10, 2002 |

Deposing a Defendant Physician in a Med-Mal Case

In most cases, defendants in medical malpractice cases have control of the facts. The plaintiff's counsel must depose defendant physicians effectively by establishing the following information and thereby controlling the issues to be tried.
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