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Are Federal Prosecutors About To Charge Skadden?

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are considering filing charges against law firm...
Prize Avocado IP, Headed For Court

A grower in the Dominican Republic discovered a new strain, said to produce avocados large enough...
Outdated Technology Ubiquitous and Risky

Offices tend to use devices until they are outdated, and to rely on technology long past...
Witness To Kavanaugh Incident Wrote Of The Manly Virtues

Mark Judge is a prep school pal of Brett Kavanaugh’s, a journalist and a film-maker, but...

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TODAY’S GENERAL COUNSEL and TODAY’S GENERAL COUNSEL INSTITUTE Announces Industry Executive Tracey Goldvarg to Join as Associate Publisher March 1, 2018, CHICAGO, Today’s...
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Sidley Austin Announces 19 Elected Partners
Effective January 1, 2018, Sidley Austin LLP will add 19 new partners to its partnership. “We are delighted to welcome this outstanding group of lawyers...
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U.S. Companies and London’s AIM Exchange
The London Stock Exchange’s AIM market is the world’s leading market for high-growth companies, popular with international companies that wish to source their equity...
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Gender-Biased General Counsel Bonuses Need Fixing
Although female general counsel have a base salary that is, on average, 6.3 percent lower than their male counterparts, it is in their bonuses...
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Prize Avocado IP, Headed For Court
A grower in the Dominican Republic discovered a new strain, said to produce avocados large enough to make a...
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Proposed NLRB Rule Would Tighten Definition of “Joint Employer”
The NLRB has proposed a rule that would tighten the definition of “joint employer,” essentially reversing the 2015 Browning-Ferris...
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A Gaping Loophole In “Carbon Accounting”
It appears that the U.S. and Europe have made good progress lowering their green house gas emissions in recent...
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Hedge Fund Backs Investor Suit Against Volkswagen
A subsidiary of Elliott Management, the hedge fund founded by Paul E. Singer, is bankrolling a lawsuit by institutional...
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Ruling Limits Whistleblowers to Nuclear Option
In February, the United States Supreme Court threw out an anti-retaliation suit brought by a former employee who was...
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Transgender Employees and Employment Discrimination
Title VII prevents employers from discriminating against employees based on “sex” — a term with no statutory definition and...
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17 Percent Of EEOC Sexual Harassment Complainants Are Male
In a recent CNN poll, ten percent of men reported they had been victims of sexual harassment at work....
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Fallout From Trump’s Affairs: The End Of The Nondisclosure Agreement?
Two women – adult film actress/director Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, and Playboy model Karen McDougal – say they...
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Cult Leader Games Patent Office
A cult leader with deep enough pockets to doggedly pursue patents for mundane variations on established technology has been...
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Integrating Trade Secrets into a Comprehensive IP Strategy
Companies that conduct R&D often have a patentability procedure. That process is also well suited to trade secret protection....
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China Stole This U.S. Company’s IP The Old-Fashioned Way
The Chinese wind turbine company Sinovel managed to come up with some software that had been developed by a...
- Posted 5 months ago
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Some PTAB Procedural Decisions Can Be Appealed
In January 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in...
- Posted 6 months ago
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Are Federal Prosecutors About To Charge Skadden?
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are considering filing charges against law firm Skadden Arps, as...
- Posted 10 hours ago
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Prize Avocado IP, Headed For Court
A grower in the Dominican Republic discovered a new strain, said to produce avocados large enough to make a...
- Posted 10 hours ago
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Outdated Technology Ubiquitous and Risky
Offices tend to use devices until they are outdated, and to rely on technology long past recommended replacement cycles...
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Trump Threatens Ghostwriter Of His Bestselling Memoir
“The Art of the Deal,” the best-selling 1987 business book and memoir, remade Trump’s image by putting “lipstick on...
- Posted 2 years ago
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Gorsuch Said Women “Manipulate” Maternity Benefits
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, told students in a course at the University...
- Posted 2 years ago
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Ten Essential Best Practices in Predictive Coding
This paper outlines emerging best practices in the application of predictive coding to e-discovery. Having moved past its early...
- Posted 5 years ago
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