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Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Apple has always been fairly aggressive in protecting their product trademarks and likenesses, as The Little App Factory recently discovered when they received a letter from the law firm of Baker & McKenzie asking them to change the name of their Mac software, iPodRip. iPodRip, originally written in 2003 at the MacHack developer conference, lets you copy and transfer your songs from iPods/iPhones...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bailiffs are indispensable to maintaining order in court. To that end, court systems often treat bailiffs much like law enforcement officers, even arming them with firearms or tasers. Now, the National Center for State Courts says that perhaps bailiffs should also be armed with something else -- an iPod or iPhone. The idea is outlined in a recent post to the NCSC's Court Technology Bulletin by Jim...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The FBI is warning U.S. law firms to beware of hackers. The FBI said this week that hackers are using phishing e-mails with malicious payloads to target law firms and public relations firms. "During the course of ongoing investigations, the FBI identified noticeable increases in computer exploitation attempts against these entities," the warning said. "Phishing" refers to the use...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday made clear that it was not pleased with President Obama's nomination of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. to be a federal district judge in Wisconsin. But did the WSJ go too far in titling its editorial, The White House Butler? In Wisconsin, a state senator, a former state Supreme Court justice and a lawyer all said the editorial...
The Legal Reader (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Yeah, I’m late on this one. But it’s still worth bringing up. Clearly, GPA and LSAT scores don’t determine your intelligence, your fitness to practice, or your worth as a human being: Updated: The law firm Sidley Austin has rescinded...
www.delawarelitigation.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I am blogging from the ABA Business Law Section Fall Meeting in D.C. This post is the product of the notes taken at the following panel presentation: Federalization of Corporation Law in a Time of Crisis - Which Institutions are Best Able to Improve Corporate Governance and Performance Going Forward. Presented by: Business and Corporate Litigation Committee and The Committee on the Federal Regulation...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The economy isn't giving us a lot to cheer about this holiday season ... and it could get worse. This year, it appears more companies are saying no to an annual tradition: the office holiday party. But attorney Kelly Phillips Erb notes that not only are holiday office parties a good way to say thank you to employees -- they may also bring tax benefits to the firm as well as employees. Phillips Erb...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Little did Robert J. Peragine know that his commute to law school would lead to a case that could soon become a $8.7 million class action. During his ferry rides to Connecticut, other passengers saw him studying his law books and alerted him to a gripe they had over surcharges that didn't seem to benefit passengers. After a district court ruled that the surcharges were unconstitutional, and awarded...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It seems large plaintiffs firms aren't done recruiting patent lawyers to their ranks. New York's Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann announced recently that former WolfBlock and Cozen O'Connor IP partner Joshua Raskin is joining the firm. Raskin's move follows similar lateral hires in recent years. Raskin found that at Cozen, a viable patent litigation practice was difficult to build given the...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
During the third quarter of this year, gross revenue among law firms industrywide fell by 6.9 percent and net income by 6.1 percent, according to a new survey by Wells Fargo Corp.'s Wachovia Legal Specialty Group. "What that tells you is there is going to be a lot more riding on the fourth quarter," said Jeff Grossman, national managing director at Wachovia. The survey was of 131 firms nationally,...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn't like a critical New York Times story on one of the firm's biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea. So he's hitting back against the reporter using an unusual vehicle: his personal Twitter feed. The reporter's father, a federal judge, presided over a high-profile case involving Equatorial Guinea. Hartley acknowledged that he hadn't verified the...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A federal jury on Wednesday acquitted a Georgia criminal defense lawyer on all counts of a money laundering and drug conspiracy indictment that had also charged him with the attempted bribery of an Assistant U.S. Attorney. After eight days of testimony and 12 hours of deliberation, the jury found J. Mark Shelnutt not guilty, discrediting a two-year government investigation of Shelnutt. The case had...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The executive director of the American Bar Association, Henry F. White Jr., resigned this week after three years in the job, the ABA Journal reports. ABA General Counsel R. Thomas Howell Jr. has been named to step in as interim executive director. Neither the ABA Journal report nor an official ABA news release gave any explanation for White's resignation. Both included this statement from ABA President...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In an end-of-term decision handed down in June, the Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano decided that New Haven's decision to discard results of a firefighter promotion examination violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The city through out the test after results came back showing that white candidates had significantly outperformed minority candidates. But the city's action prompted white...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Ken Auletta's new book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, ponders whether the 1,000-pound Gorilla of the Web is pursuing an altruistic endeavor to offer all the world's information for free or is a marauding monster on a mission to dominate the media and information landscape. With Google in command of my e-mail platform, my blogging platform, my search platform, my RSS reader, my photo-storage...
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