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Law.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
About 10 percent of the biotech work force was born outside the United States. Although the tensions and challenges faced by employers with a melting pot of nationalities in their work force may be unique, application of labor and employment laws is not. Attorneys Mary Dollarhide and Hannah Cole write that biotech companies must apply the same vigor and creativity they use in developing new technologies...
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Law.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
In-house counsel aren't crying out for more lawyers or bigger law firms with more offices and practice areas, says consultant Eric Dewey. Rather, they're asking law firms to become better aligned with their business interests, to understand their businesses more deeply, to become familiar with their technology and their processes, to continuously improve their efficiency in delivering legal services...
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bala (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Kansas City's Finance and Audit Committee endorsed an ordinance today to pay the Shughart Thomson law firm up to $100,000 to defend the city against a lawsuit filed by Mayor Pro Tem Bill Skaggs.
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
It's been about two years since Microsoft launched Vista, a Windows-based operating system that has been so poorly received that even Wikipedia devoted an entire entry to "Criticism of Windows Vista." Because of its many problems, Vista is being bypassed...
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Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A section of the District of Columbia Bar is sponsoring a session on law firm marketing on May 20. The blurb from the bar's web page states: The program is premised on the growing number of law firms that are...
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
An internal investigation into stock-option backdating at Broadcom held three executives responsible and gave a pass to general counsel David Dull and co-founder Henry Samueli. But the SEC didn't see it that way. On Wednesday, the SEC charged Dull and Samueli, along with former CEO Henry Nicholas and former CFO William Ruehle, for an alleged scheme that led to a $2.2 billion restatement last year....
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Was Lori Drew surprised to learn that she committed a federal crime when she signed on to a social networking site using a fictitious identity? We wondered that today while reading an indictment that charges Drew — a 49 year-old resident of Missouri who registered on MySpace as “Josh Evans,” a 16 year-old boy — [...]
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Most in-house counsel know the types of inquiries that should trigger evidence preservation or collection protocols. Once there is reason to believe there will be litigation or investigation, the duty to preserve kicks in immediately. But what's next? IE Discovery's Stacy Jackson and Jennifer Scrafford provide 10 questions that in-house counsel should consider and have ready answers for to help make...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
This just in: A federal jury has found Los Angeles private detective Anthony Pellicano guilty of racketeering and conspiracy. The verdict could reportedly mean a penalty of eight to 10 years in federal prison. Here’s the early story from the LAT. Click here for all previous LB coverage on Pellicano. Pellicano, who represented himself at trial, [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oliver Rose: I think you owe me a solid reason. I worked my a** off for you and the kids to have a nice life and you owe me a reason that makes sense. . . . Barbara Rose: Because. When I watch you eat. When I see you asleep. When I look at you [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
This just in: The California Supreme Court has overturned the voter-approved gay marriage ban. Here’s the opinion. More reports will follow as news emerges.
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
All eyes interested in the gay-marriage debate will be on San Francisco today, where the California Supreme Court (pictured) convenes and where it will release its long-awaited ruling on whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California. The ruling is due at 1 p.m. EDT. What we want to do in [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few days ago NYT ran this story discussing the difficulties of winning shareholder suits stemming from the subprime crisis, which made sense to us given the spate of court rulings that have raised the bar for plaintiffs and what we’ve heard from lawyers who’ve thought these suits didn't have juice. But perhaps we legal [...]
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Law.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
"There's a new kind of journalism coming from a Kansas courtroom this week," writes Anne Reed at her blog Deliberations. She calls it "Twitter journalism." Whereas blogging a trial already seems old-hat, Wichita Eagle reporter and multimedia producer Ron Sylvester...
