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April 22, 2004 | Law.com

In California, Corporate Associates Are Again in Demand

When the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, firms mowed their ranks. Recruitment all but froze, especially among transactional associates. But late last year, firms cautiously began refilling many of those spots as IPOs and M&A deals picked up. "Hiring is up 60 percent over this time last year," said Robert Major Jr., a partner at legal search firm Major, Hagen & Africa. "You can start to hear the stress in our clients' voices."
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July 13, 2007 | Law.com

Options 'Giveback' Settlements Could Become Trend

Defense and plaintiffs lawyers are pointing to the recent settlement of a stock-options backdating case, which featured options "givebacks" from executives, as a model likely to be followed in similar cases. The settlement of a derivative case involving Family Dollar Stores, and 13 current and former executives and officers, calls for four executives to relinquish 210,000 unexercised options. Both plaintiffs attorneys and defense counsel seem to be open to the idea of such givebacks becoming a trend.
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May 24, 2006 | Law.com

Wine Trademark Leaves Big Ass Hangover

In 1995, Raymond Howarth registered the "Big Ass" mark and began selling Big Ass Beer. He also licensed the name to the Milano Family Winery. But when Adler Fels Winery's Big Ass Cab, Big Ass Zin and Big Ass Chard cropped up at a wine show, Howarth decided to protect his trademark. Such label disputes are increasing with the meteoric growth of the $45 billion California wine industry and are generating a healthy source of revenue for firms with a wine law practice.
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May 14, 2001 | Law.com

Legal Secretary Snags Sitcom Tickets During Staff Appreciation Week

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's Hollywood connections added some glamour to Staff Appreciation Week in the San Francisco firm's Palo Alto, Calif., office. The grand prize was a trip for two to see a taping of the television show "Will & Grace." An associate got tickets from her cousin, who is one of the producers. Legal secretary Evelyn Kempski won the raffle drawing, although she had never seen the sitcom.
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August 28, 2000 | Law.com

Packing It On, Firms Fatten Up

Associate salary hikes have done little to curb the appetite of San Francisco Bay Area firms for more lawyers. In fact, they're as hungry as ever. During the first half of 2000, hiring at several Bay Area firms -- particularly those with large, tech-related practices -- was triple that of the same period a year ago. That's despite the added expense of salaries, training and management of new associates.
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March 15, 2006 | Law.com

TiVo Against the Giants

TiVo's little black box, which gives viewers control over when they watch their favorite TV shows, has rocked the broadcasting and advertising industries, spawned patent litigation and even drawn complaints from privacy advocates. General counsel Matthew Zinn says his greatest accomplishment is that TiVo hasn't "been sued out of existence." But now, Zinn is gearing up for a trial in which TiVo is taking the offensive, alleging infringement of its multimedia "time warping system" by EchoStar Communications.
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March 24, 2006 | Law.com

Cooley Scoops Up Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

Ross Nadel, the former criminal chief of the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office, starts Monday as a partner at Cooley Godward. Nadel, who also founded and led the highly regarded Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit, retired from the office in June after 24 years there. Nadel is the latest in a string of top prosecutors joining large firms -- among them, Cooley's Joseph Russoniello, who was U.S. Attorney during Nadel's early years in the office. But some say the trend may be coming to an end.
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October 13, 2005 | Law.com

Teaming Up For a Second Chance

Dorsey Nunn has paid for his crime and wants to put it behind him. Now, local lawyers are helping him and other former prisoners find ways to avoid pesky employment questions about their criminal pasts.
5 minute read
July 01, 2003 | Law.com

Bay Area Backslide

Hammered by the sour stock market and dismal economy, California's elite technology firms continued their slide among the nation's top grossing firms. The annual rankings of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. firms, published Monday in Recorder affiliate The American Lawyer magazine, shows that firms like Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich and -- of course -- the now-defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison sank in both revenue and profitability last year.
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December 28, 2000 | Law.com

The Paralegal Name Game

A new California law, AB 1761, is already having wide-ranging impact on the paralegal profession by setting minimum standards for who can be a paralegal and what services a paralegal can perform. Advocates say it will prevent paralegals from practicing law illegally. Opponents say the law unfairly prohibits paralegals from working independently of attorneys.
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