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July 22, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Bay Area Firm Regroups After Recent Troubles

Gordon Davidson isn't ready to hit the panic button just yet - even though the San Francisco Bay Area law firm Fenwick West is showing all of the standard signs of trouble.
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January 08, 2007 | New York Law Journal

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December 05, 2005 | Law.com

NYC Wins Bid to Sue Gun Manufacturers Over Marketing

Broad federal legislation designed to shield gun manufacturers from civil lawsuits does not apply to New York City's public nuisance claim against the industry, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Jack B. Weinstein found that an exception to the recently enacted legislation spared the city's suit from outright dismissal. However, he also concluded that the act was constitutional and noted that his ruling, the first in the country to interpret the act, would provoke disagreement.
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December 15, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Local Law Firm Growth Bucks National Trend

Although the White House says the economy is starting to show signs of turning around, it wasn't soon enough for the nation's 250 largest law firms, which this year suffered their lowest lawyer growth rate since 1994, according to an annual National Law Journal survey.
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January 18, 2006 | Law.com

Oregon Suicide Law Is Upheld by High Court

In a ruling that re-energizes the debate over federalism and the right to die, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the federal Controlled Substances Act does not give the Bush administration the authority to thwart Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide. The high court upheld the 9th Circuit -- itself a notable event -- in a ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and featuring Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s first dissent.
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November 30, 2007 | Law.com

GOP Spying Case Heads to Supreme Court

In 1998, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, filed what is believed to be the first lawsuit against a fellow member of Congress. The target was Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who during the previous year had shared with reporters a tape of an embarrassing phone call involving Republican Party leaders originally recorded by a Florida couple using a police scanner from RadioShack. Now, more than a decade later, the Supreme Court justices will decide whether to settle the matter once and for all.
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October 26, 2007 | Law.com

Chevron Wants Human Rights Case Review

The legal fights over holding multinational corporations liable for aiding foreign governments in alleged international human rights violations may come to a head in the 9th Circuit. Chevron has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to reconsider her decision that Nigerian villagers can take Chevron to trial over its alleged role in aiding the Nigerian military in attacks that killed and wounded protesters at oil facilities. The judge had relied heavily on a 9th Circuit opinion that has been withdrawn.
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September 01, 2009 | Law.com

Cooley Brings On IP Trio From White & Case

After losing several key partners recently, Cooley is picking up IP litigators Heidi Keefe, Mark Weinstein and Mark Lambert from White & Case. The three, who represent clients like Facebook, Cisco Systems and HTC in patent cases, said Cooley was appealing because of its local connections with tech companies. "There are practices that benefit from the global platform; for others, it is more important to have a strong local practice, and IP litigation is more in that category," said Weinstein.
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August 25, 2004 | Law.com

Biotech Boom Creating Demand for Specialty Lawyers

The increasing use of genetics in everything from investigating crimes to improving food is keeping biotech lawyers busy. "Governments and industries are really seeing [biotechnology] as a major economic force of the future, and where business goes, law goes," said Arizona State law professor, Gary Marchant. There's only one problem: Scientific discoveries are invading the legal world so quickly there aren't enough biotech attorneys to handle the workload.
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February 26, 2007 | Law.com

Finnegan Struggles With Growing Pains

Until recently, the intellectual property firm Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner was the epitome of the old guard, with an all-partners-are-equal mentality that can still be found at firms like Covington & Burling, Arnold & Porter and a few large New York firms. Now, Finnegan is dealing with the reality that getting bigger typically leads to creating a new class structure -- or at least thinking about doing so. It's a crossroads moment that more and more law firms are facing.
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