Alanna Byrne

March 08, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Other than doctors, and possibly media workers with unreasonably large New York apartments, few professions are quite as attractive to scriptwriters as lawyers.

By Julie Beck, Alanna Byrne

10 minute read

March 07, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Apple Inc. has won the latest installment in its epic patent war against Samsung Electronics Co., after a U.K. judge ruled on Thursday that the California-based company did not infringe three Samsung patents on mobile technology.

By Alanna Byrne

4 minute read

March 06, 2013 | Inside Counsel

A dangerous package, an unloved child and four more of the strangest lawsuits making headlines

By Alanna Byrne

5 minute read

March 06, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Huron Consulting Group may be guilty of bad practice, but it didnt help to defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of millions of dollars, according to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who dismissed a whistleblower suit against the company on Tuesday.

By Alanna Byrne

2 minute read

March 05, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Yahoo Inc. has been courting controversy the past few weeks.

By Alanna Byrne

3 minute read

March 05, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Consumers, competitors and federal agencies could take legal action against companies that enlist others to write glowing reviews

By Alanna Byrne, Ashley Post

4 minute read

March 04, 2013 | Inside Counsel

European Union (EU) member states have agreed to the creation of a new Unified Patent Court, whose judgments will apply to all signatory countries, not just individual nations.

By Alanna Byrne

7 minute read

March 01, 2013 | Inside Counsel

How well do you remember the most significantand strangestlegal events of the past month?

By Julie Beck, Alanna Byrne

13 minute read

March 01, 2013 | Inside Counsel

They say sex sells, but it apparently wasnt enough to keep the company behind Girls Gone Wild out of bankruptcy.

By Alanna Byrne

4 minute read

February 28, 2013 | Inside Counsel

Nearly nine months to the day after it filed for bankruptcy, the defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has won court approval for its liquidation plan.

By Alanna Byrne

5 minute read