Alex Vorro

March 28, 2012 | Inside Counsel

A group of U.S. airlines have dropped their private lawsuit against the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, which implemented a law January 1 that taxes airlines for carbon emissions on transatlantic flights.

By Alex Vorro

4 minute read

March 27, 2012 | Inside Counsel

The onset of spring has brought about a rebirth of hostilities in the struggle between technology behemoths Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. The two companies have been battling for the last few years over a number of issues, but yesterday both parties sought pretrial victories in the dispute over whether...

By Alex Vorro

4 minute read

March 26, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Law school combines traditional mentoring models for a fresh take on student development

By Alex Vorro

6 minute read

March 26, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Mobility is No. 1 trend in 2012

By Alex Vorro

6 minute read

March 26, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Programs allow seasoned lawyers to impart wisdom to the next generation

By Alex Vorro

12 minute read

March 26, 2012 | Inside Counsel

The long-awaited day has finally come. Two years after the Obama administration passed the much-maligned Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Supreme Court today finally begins to hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of the law. And the hype is so large that spectators have been queuing up...

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

March 23, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Relatively hot on the heels of its 2010 ruling in Bilski v. Kappos that applied the machine-or-transformation test to business method patents before determining that such a test could create uncertainty regarding the patentability of things such as diagnostic medicine techniques, the Supreme Court tackled a similar issue earlier this...

By Alex Vorro

4 minute read

March 22, 2012 | Inside Counsel

The U.S. Department of Labors (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) today announced that it has struck a settlement with subsidiaries of FedEx Corp. to resolve allegations of hiring discrimination at 23 facilities across 15 states.

By Alex Vorro

5 minute read

March 21, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Harassing the opposing teams goalie is a time-honored tradition in hockey. But what about targeting the home teams goalie?

By Alex Vorro

5 minute read

March 20, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Written in 1952, dredged up in 1971 and again in 1986 and now resurrected again in 2012the specter of the memo written by former Chief Justice William Rehnquist for Justice Robert Jackson about his thoughts on segregation cases has haunted him for 60 years. And now, a pair of scholars...

By Alex Vorro

7 minute read