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    Paralegal's Fee Bill Becomes a Bureaucratic Snowball

    By Vanessa Blum | March 19, 2013

    SAN FRANCISCO — Two years ago, a federal judge slashed $2,399 from a paralegal's fee request in a massive gang prosecution.The paralegal, whose work was funded by the Criminal

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    Is the Ninth Wrong on the Fifth?

    By Felicia Gross | May 24, 2012

    In the recent decision of SEC v. Jasper, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the

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    Department of Fish and Game v. Superior Court (Adams)

    August 3, 2011

    C.A. 3rd C066158 The Third Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate. The court held that a trial court erred in granting class certification where common issues di

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    Growing With Government

    By Petra Pasternak | June 25, 2008

    When Steven Meyers and a handful of his partners opened Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson 22 years ago, they were banking on one thing: that public agencies' need for legal servi

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    Faulkinbury v. Boyd & Associates, Inc.

    May 13, 2013

    C.A. 4thG041702The Fourth Appellate District reversed a judgment. The court held that the legality of an employer’s policies regarding meal breaks, rest breaks, and over

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    Policing Social Media

    By Lothar Determann and Ute Krudewagen | April 6, 2012

    With the rapid rise of social media (as of today, there are 845 million active users of Facebook, nearly half a billion users of Twitter and 150 million LinkedIn members, with numbers growing

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    Pluggin the App Info Leak

    By Richard L. Kellner and Anastasia Mazzella | April 20, 2012

    Nearly 30 years ago, Apple Inc. ushered the Macintosh personal computer into the world with an award-winning co al that alluded to George Orwell's famous novel, "1984." In the co

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    Firms Beef up Tax Practices in Valley as IRS Increases Scrutiny of IP Assets

    By Amy Miller | September 14, 2012

    SAN FRANCISCO — If there was any doubt about the value of patents to high-tech companies, Apple Inc.'s recent $1 billion victory over Samsung Electronics erased it. Now the Intern

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    Silicon Scene

    July 31, 2008

    Cisco Systems' voracious appetite for companies has kept Silicon Valley deal lawyers well fed for years. And it's not just the law firms hired by the tech giant —

  • The Recorder

    Separation Anxiety

    By Petra Pasternak | October 14, 2011

    The forced departure of Tiela Chalmers from the Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services Program made headlines last spring. But it was only one part of a leadership and or

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