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May 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Texas-Based Firms' Lone Star Offices Unmoved in Current Round of Pay Hikes

Associates at large Texas-based firms may be left out of the recent associate salary raises for a while. Some firms such as Houston-based Susman Godfrey say they upped starting salaries to stay competitive with other firms. But other large Texas firms aren't feeling pressure. "I think most observers would differentiate the Texas market from both coasts ... and so far I'm seeing no signs of any movement here," says Kenneth Menges, a partner at Akin Gump, which isn't currently considering associate raises.
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July 02, 2008 | Law.com

Wal-Mart Loses $6.5 Million Wage-and-Hour Class Action

Wal-Mart and lead trial counsel Susman Godfrey are 0-for-3 in wage-and-hour class action trials. Tuesday, after a three-month bench trial, a Minnesota judge ruled that in failing to provide rest breaks, Wal-Mart broke state labor laws more than 2 million times. Judge Robert King Jr. awarded $6.5 million in compensatory damages to the class, consisting of about 56,000 Wal-Mart employees in Minnesota. The ruling follows a $172 million jury verdict in California and a $78 million jury verdict in Pennsylvania.
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August 30, 2010 | Law.com

Paul Allen Sues 11 Companies, Including Google and Apple, for Patent Infringement

Billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, filed suit Friday in federal court against 11 Internet search and e-commerce companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, alleging that they are using technology developed at his now-shuttered California laboratory, Interval Research Corp. The suit lists alleged violations of four technology patents developed at Interval Research in the 1990s, which cover fundamental Web technologies. The suit does not estimate a damages amount.
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February 02, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Dispute shows conflicts over how BigLaw manages, staffs litigation

A BP affiliate is refusing to pay a $6 million legal bill and suing Debevoise & Plimpton for assigning "a pestilent horde of somewhere between 87 and 119 time billers."
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May 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

Texas firms hold line on salaries

Despite a major market move to higher associate salaries in California this month, Texas-based associates with large Texas-based firms are out of the big money, at least for a while.
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May 27, 2010 | Law.com

WaMu's Chapter 11 Case: Here Come the Shareholders

Rarely does anyone accuse the litigators at Quinn Emanuel of not being aggressive enough, but that's essentially what attorneys representing Washington Mutual shareholders are saying in asking the judge hearing WaMu's bankruptcy case for permission to investigate JPMorgan Chase's acquisition of the bank. The investigation centers on allegations that JPMorgan torpedoed WaMu's chances of finding another buyer in late 2008 by leaking confidential information and false rumors about WaMu's finances, court records show.
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September 15, 2003 | National Law Journal

Errata

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April 18, 2003 | National Law Journal

Suit charges eBay with monopolizing auctions

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December 24, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Inadmissible

"Susman Godfrey Bonuses," "Honoring Presidents" and "Hotrod of a Fee Opinion"
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