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July 26, 2004 | Law.com

Townsend Firm Sued by Longtime Biotech Client

Townsend and Townsend partner Albert Hillman wore three hats when it came to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.: working as an IP lawyer, sitting on its board of directors, and testifying in its patent litigation. Now the biotech company is raising Hillman's three roles in a legal malpractice suit against Townsend and two of its partners. The company claims that from 1984 to 1994 Townsend gave bad advice and failed to disclose a conflict during two patent trials between Bio-Rad and a pharmaceutical company.
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October 17, 2003 | Law.com

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November 28, 2007 | Law.com

Beefing With Backers

Closed-door meetings are at issue in the latest skirmish in Alameda County prosecutor Angela Backers' gender discrimination suit against her boss, DA Tom Orloff.
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March 17, 2005 | Law.com

Mind Share

Barbara Lawless is tired of hearing from stressed-out workers. She'd rather get a call from someone with bipolar disorder. By contrast, she finds, stress is too common and too subtle to sway a jury. Employment lawyers didn't always speak the language of mental disability litigation. Such claims used to be rare. "What we're seeing now is what the plaintiff lawyers have been saying all along: That a mental disability is the same as a physical disability," said plaintiff attorney Todd Schneider.
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May 26, 1999 | Law.com

The (Not-So) Friendly Skies

Three class actions claiming false imprisonment and negligence are in the works against Northwest -- the airline that held 27 flights on the runway during a January blizzard in Detroit. The lawsuits underscore a wider rebellion among airline passengers over what they say is shoddy treatment on the part of the nation's air carriers. The soaring volume of complaints have struck a chord: a recent court decision and congressional action are aimed at giving passengers more rights once they board an airplane.
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July 09, 2007 | Law.com

This Week in Recorder History

They say hindsight is 20/20. Revisit events and predictions from five, 10 and 15 years ago, with the benefit of today's perspective.
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September 25, 2000 | Law.com

University of San Francisco Works to Boost Academic Standing

After one year as dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Jeffrey Brand has big plans. The school's new $18.3 million law library just opened, but building improvements are just one of the steps school officials are taking to improve the Jesuit school's academic reputation and attract more top-drawer students. "It's been an incredibly exciting time," Brand says.
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December 17, 2004 | Law.com

Last-Minute Gifts

We gave prominent California judges and lawyers a mission: Find a book that would make a good holiday present for a lawyer. They didn't let us down.
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May 31, 2000 | Law.com

The Graying of the Bar

As the baby boomers edge toward retirement age, benefits such as lifetime tenure that were once taken for granted are likely to become relics. In an effort to maintain -- or gain -- footing in a competitive environment, some firms are taking dramatic, highly visible actions that fall hardest on older partners. "They don't have a lot of choices. The ground rules have changed...," said Robert Hillman, a professor at the University of California-Davis School of Law.
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June 15, 2001 | Law.com

Going on a Rescue Mission

When two San Francisco lawyers and a paralegal signed on to a trip to Thailand organized by the International Justice Mission, lying awake before dawn in an Akha village near the Burmese border wasn't exactly what they had in mind. From there, IJM's Thailand office takes on the country's multibillion-dollar sex industry.
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