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Lawyers nix champagne amid popped bubble

Owen Thomas · 12/05/08 02:20PM

It may be time to put a cork in Silicon Valley's most famous law firm. Wilson Sonsini is no longer celebrating its new attorneys with champagne. That trimmed perk is just the beginning of its woes.

Megan McCarthy · 08/27/07 01:36PM

A federal judge is "unlikely to dismiss" a shareholder-filed suit against the board of directors of Brocade Communications, including high-powered lawyer and Silicon Valley demigod Larry Sonsini, over its alleged tolerance of backdating stock options. [San Jose Mercury News]

SV Confidential: Who's pleading the fifth

Nick Douglas · 09/28/06 02:32PM

On the day of the Congressional hearing for Hewlett-Packard, the first federal investigation into corporate espionage practices that could be industry-wide, we're following who says what, but more importantly, who refuses to speak at all. Here's who took the Fifth so far:

Indignant board member's lawyer writes WSJ editorial

Nick Douglas · 09/26/06 09:22PM

When Hewlett-Packard admitted that the company tried to spy on and misinform journalists at CNET, the New York Times, and other papers, the media was, well, not amused. The upshot is that we all get to see the opposition writing guest editorials in major papers. The lawyer for ex-HP board member Tom Perkins (who resigned when he discovered HP's investigators spied on him) tells the Wall Street Journal: