Alex Vorro

April 24, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Given the furor last month when news that companies are asking prospective employees for their Facebook passwords made national headlines, it should come as little surprise that a panel of experts weighed in on how best to manage corporate social media policies on the second day of InsideCounsels 12th annual...

By Alex Vorro, Julie Beck

9 minute read

April 24, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Maybe if theyre outraged enough, they can make a movie about it. Thirty-four American and Australian companies, including Paramount Pictures, Viacom Inc., Village Roadshow Ltd. and Walt Disney Co., lost a piracy lawsuit in Australia last week when the nations top court ruled that a local Internet service provider (ISP)...

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

April 23, 2012 | Inside Counsel

A group of experts weighed in with their thoughts on perhaps the hottest topic of all right now in the world of e-discovery, technology-assisted review (TAR), on the first day of InsideCounsels 12th annual SuperConference.

By Alex Vorro

3 minute read

April 23, 2012 | Inside Counsel

People by the thousands are turning out in droves these days to pick up whatever Apple Inc. is selling. But this time, Northern District of California Judge Lucy Koh wasnt buying it.

By Alex Vorro

4 minute read

April 20, 2012 | Inside Counsel

The dark cloud hanging over New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf could be developing from cumulonimbus to supercell.

By Alex Vorro

12 minute read

April 19, 2012 | Inside Counsel

If only the Man of Steel were real that he could reverse the Earths rotation, turn back time and settle this squabble before it ever started.

By Alex Vorro

5 minute read

April 18, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Theres plenty of toxic air spouted in Washington on any given day, but at least this time, the foul emissions were coming from truck engines and not pundits, politicians and the like. The U.S. government decided to take Swedish truckmaker Volvo Powertrain Corp., a unit of Volvo AB, to task...

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

April 17, 2012 | Inside Counsel

At a time when corporate purse strings are still cinched relatively tightly, legal departments probably arent popping champagne bottles over the news that rates for their outside counsel are continuing to rise.

By Alex Vorro

8 minute read

April 16, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Sometimes joining a club isnt the best ideaat least when the premise isnt exactly legal. Last Friday, federal prosecutors announced that a fourth member of a criminal club of inside traders has pled guilty to criminal charges.

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

April 13, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Its a general counsels worst nightmare come true. On Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten shot down Bank of Americas request to exclude its CEO Brian Moynihan from testifying in a lawsuit brought by bond insurer MBIA Inc.

By Alex Vorro

3 minute read