SAN FRANCISCO — Lifers used to be common in Hewlett-Packard’s legal department. People like Charles Charnas, 51, who logged 18 years before leaving for Apple last year. Or Alan Haggard, a patent lawyer who left in January after 20 years and took a job at Rambus.

“Many people went there and made their careers there — it wasn’t a high-flying company, but it was very stable,” explains Martha “Marty” Africa, a longtime legal recruiter with Major, Lindsey & Africa. “It was a whole lot like working for the federal government, except they paid better — and they had good taste in people.”

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