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Superstar Lawyers Eroding Partner Compensation System

A corporate lawyer who advised on about $300 billion worth of transactions, generating $100 million in...
Resource Alignment Is A Big Law Department Challenge

A survey found that legal departments, despite increased demand for their services, managed to keep their...
Hold Software Developers Liable For Security Flaws, Says Senator

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says that subjecting...
Does The Conflict-Minerals Law Hurt African Miners?

Many companies will soon be fulfilling their SEC requirement to report on whether mining of certain...

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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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Does The Conflict-Minerals Law Hurt African Miners?
Many companies will soon be fulfilling their SEC requirement to report on whether mining of certain minerals in their...
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Bridging The Gap Between IT & Legal
In an e-discovery project, IT and Legal personnel need to work together as seamlessly and smoothly as possible. That...
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Mesh Litigation Conspiracy Alleged
According to a New York Times investigative article, an “assembly-line-like system” involving plaintiff attorneys, litigation funders, banks, physicians and marketers...
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Dershowitz Assails ACLU For Defending Raid On Trump’s Lawyer
Harvard law professor and civil liberties advocate Alan Dershowitz calls the ACLU to task for defending the FBI’s raid...
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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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Superstar Lawyers Eroding Partner Compensation System
A corporate lawyer who advised on about $300 billion worth of transactions, generating $100 million in fees for his...
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Resource Alignment Is A Big Law Department Challenge
A survey found that legal departments, despite increased demand for their services, managed to keep their spending flat last...
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Hold Software Developers Liable For Security Flaws, Says Senator
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says that subjecting the software industry...
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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...
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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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