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May 24, 2004 | Law.com

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 | Law.com

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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April 02, 2009 | The Recorder

Where the Work Is: Securities Class Actions

No wonder plaintiffs firms are hiring. A study finds that federal securities class actions against the financial services industry topped suits against high-tech companies for the first time since 1995
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February 13, 2009 | The Recorder

Hearsay

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January 05, 2010 | New York Law Journal

News In Brief

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July 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

NY Partners Switching Firms

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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 | The Recorder

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.

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