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December 19, 2000 | Law.com

And Baby Makes Three

Three-year-old Nora is roaming around the living room of her parents' home at a pace that would burn out the Energizer bunny. It's a typical evening in the household of a healthy, active toddler, with one big difference: Nora's parents are "Daddy Charlie" and "Poppy Jim," two gay men who adopted her on Valentine's Day 1997. The proud and loving fathers, both lawyers, are part of a phenomenon that many are calling "the gayby boom."
9 minute read
June 12, 2001 | Law.com

Advantages to Filing a Bankruptcy for a Dot-Com Company

What should a struggling dot-com company consider before filing for bankruptcy? How can filing for bankruptcy enhance a dot-com company's ability to reorganize or realize value from its assets? Moderator Robert L. Eisenbach III of Cooley Godward and an expert panel examined these issues during law.com's recently completed online seminar "Bankruptcy in the Dot-Com Economy".
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September 13, 2007 | Law.com

Racketeering Lawsuit by Biovail Backfires Against Company and Lawyers

Biovail Corp. was supposed to be the victim, the ill-used dupe of powerful hedge funds, analysts and bankers, whose short-selling scheme to spread false information about the company led to a plunge in its share price in 2003. And Biovail's respected litigators from Howrey and Kasowitz Benson were to be the ones to help the company prove it. How did the company's "extremely well-lawyered" legal strategy blow up in the faces of Biovail executives and lawyers, now the ones under scrutiny?
30 minute read
December 09, 1999 | Law.com

Out-Licensing Brings Schools Profits, Big Legal Bills

If Carnegie Mellon University had not decided to out-license a computer-science technology developed by one of its faculty members, Lycos would not exist. Today, Lycos is a 785-employee company with a $5.7 billion market cap. A recent survey shows in 1998 alone, at least 364 new companies were started based on technology developed at U.S. universities and research institutions. Some of this cross-fertilization may be the result of one lawyer's victorious battle on behalf of the University of California.
5 minute read
March 03, 2011 | The Recorder

Introducing Our 2011 Attorneys of the Year

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April 23, 2010 | The Recorder

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May 04, 2000 | Law.com

Law Firms, Web Companines Vie for Talent

Internet-savvy attorneys kicking themselves for not jumping at those stock options start-ups like Doubleclick or Razorfish or TheStreet.com were dangling, take heart: You are still in demand. In fact, the demand is greater than ever. From the white-shoe firms looking to get in on the Internet business, to the established new media firms, to the giant corporations developing e-commerce strategies, to the fledgling start-ups hoping to strike it rich in cyberspace, everyone wants a Web-savvy lawyer.
7 minute read
May 16, 2007 | Law.com

Hogan, Akin Gump Fire First Shots in New Round of Salary Wars

Hogan & Hartson placed Washington, D.C., at the heart of the latest round of the salary wars when it announced that it's raising pay for first-year associates to $160,000 in D.C.-area and West Coast offices. Hogan Chairman J. Warren Gorrell says the firm made the decision in light of other national firms' pay raises. Although more than 20 national firms already hiked to $160,000 in the nation's capital, Hogan is the first Washington stalwart to do so. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld matched within a day.
4 minute read
February 24, 2006 | Law.com

Pay Hike at Quinn Ups Ante in Salary War

Having been one of the first California firms to increase first-year salaries to $135,000, the L.A.-based firm follows New York and goes to $145,000.
3 minute read
September 08, 2009 | Law.com

High-Stakes Tax Dispute May Spell Solo's Second Trip to U.S. Supreme Court

An Atlanta solo practitioner may get his second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend a victory he won at the Supreme Court of Kentucky that is potentially worth more than $212 million. Last year, C. Christopher Trower was a Supreme Court novice when he won the Kentucky government's fight over the taxation of municipal bonds. Both he and his opposing counsel in the latest case say there are good reasons for the nation's highest court to take up the latest Kentucky tax case, too.
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