In a program he designed at the Gunderson Lutheran Health System in LaCrosse, Wis.
Gunderson Detmer, a law firm founded just three years ago, now has over 50 lawyers.
But while school administrators side with Allen, support for his decision at Gunderson is far from universal.
Maurice Gunderson is senior partner in the energy and materials division at venture capital firm CMEA Capital.
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Founders who accept acqui-hire exits often have to agree to concessions, says Ivan Gaviria, a partner with law firm Gunderson Dettmer LLP in Redwood City, Calif.
Vicky Gunderson, whose son killed himself in solitary, is asking people to sign an online petition telling the U.S. attorney general to ban solitary confinement for inmates 17 and younger.
Many would argue that Silicon Valley's big law firms--such as Brobeck Phleger, Gunderson Dettmer, The Venture Law Group and especially Wilson Sansini Goodrich--are at least as powerful as its venture capitalists.
Dr. Hammes says studies at Gunderson Lutheran have shown patients with advanced illness who have documented their wishes are more likely to prefer that their care be focused on comfort and function.
By 2003 Illumina scientist Kevin Gunderson invented a chemical process that allowed Illumina to get more-accurate results, even as it packed more DNA on a chip. (Instead of the lithography that Affymetrix uses, Illumina affixes DNA to tiny glass beads packed in the chip.) "I've been in the analytical sciences for 30 years, and I've never seen anything this accurate, " says John W. Hooper, chief executive of Quebec gene-finding firm Genizon, an Illumina customer.
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