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Lawyers and Bankers Win, DOJ and Shareholders Lose

Dealbook, a New York Times feature, lists the winners and losers in the recent ruling allowing...
Ruling Takes Big Weapon Away From New York AG

In a ruling that could squash a securities fraud suit by the New York attorney general’s...
Seattle Repeals Tax After Amazon Lobbying Blitz

A tax on large businesses in Seattle that was slated to fund affordable housing and homeless...
No Privilege For GC In Bizarre Coverage Dispute

A PGA Tour golf tournament gave rise to a bizarre insurance coverage dispute and a rare...

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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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Legal Departments Lead Industry-Wide Change
About five years ago, a group of in-house counsel from large corporations started to meet informally. They expressed frustrations with how their departments were...
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Risks of Contractual Joint Ventures for Government Contracts
Parties pursuing government contracts or grants enter into joint ventures for many reasons. But joint venture participants often are unaware of the legal implications...
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Is Securitization Evil? Dechert Attorney Takes On The Pope
A declaration from the papacy took aim at securitization and credit default swaps, characterizing them as a kind of...
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Lawyers and Bankers Win, DOJ and Shareholders Lose
Dealbook, a New York Times feature, lists the winners and losers in the recent ruling allowing the AT&T –...
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Ruling Takes Big Weapon Away From New York AG
In a ruling that could squash a securities fraud suit by the New York attorney general’s office, the state’s...
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No Privilege For GC In Bizarre Coverage Dispute
A PGA Tour golf tournament gave rise to a bizarre insurance coverage dispute and a rare privilege question for...
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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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Combating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Employers can expect to see an increase in sexual harassment claims and complaints. Some may be exaggerated or involve...
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Companies Are Backing Off On Drug-Testing
A Gallup poll last October found that 64 percent of Americans favor legalization of pot. That’s the most since...
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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...
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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...
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Does Your Boss Own Your Brain?
Today, many employment agreements, particularly in the tech industry, include a clause assigning to an employer all discoveries, improvements,...
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Domestic “AK-47,” Made In FLA, Evades Sanctions
The best-known product of Kalishnikov, one of the strongest brands in the world, is the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle,...
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Is Securitization Evil? Dechert Attorney Takes On The Pope
A declaration from the papacy took aim at securitization and credit default swaps, characterizing them as a kind of...
- Posted 2 hours ago
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Lawyers and Bankers Win, DOJ and Shareholders Lose
Dealbook, a New York Times feature, lists the winners and losers in the recent ruling allowing the AT&T –...
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Ruling Takes Big Weapon Away From New York AG
In a ruling that could squash a securities fraud suit by the New York attorney general’s office, the state’s...
- Posted 3 days ago
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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...
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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 1 year 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...
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