Amy Miller

March 05, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

One top in-house lawyer explains why he isn's switching to alternative fee deals.

By Amy Miller

4 minute read

November 01, 2008 | Legaltech News

Conference Coordinator, International Legal Technology Association

By Amy Miller

2 minute read

September 10, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Faced with legal trouble, most companies have settled with the feds and given up their employees. Not W.R. Grace, which stuck with its execs in a massive asbestos case, refused to settle—and won.

By Amy Miller

13 minute read

June 14, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

The legal strategies for BP and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have yet to be revealed. But one thing is certain. Their in-house legal departments are in the midst of an expensive and Herculean task — discovery. The companies are under document hold demands, subpoenas, and other requests from federal agencies, including the Justice Department, which announced recently that it has begun civil and criminal investigations into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They're also subject to court orders in pending litigation.

By Amy Miller

4 minute read

August 16, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Law firm files a shareholder derivative suit against former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd and the board of directors, alleging that disclosures surrounding his resignation led to a drop in the company's stock price.

By Amy Miller

2 minute read

March 03, 2011 | The Recorder

Zynga?s general counsel has helped guide the three-year-old social gaming company into a global colossus. 2010 highlights included numerous acquisitions, a high-profile hire and getting a competitor?s employee sentenced to jail.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

April 01, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

One of Gen Re's top lawyers takes the fall for a phony deal with AIG.

By Amy Miller

6 minute read

June 16, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Facebook General Counsel Theodore Ullyot recognizes the need to stockpile patents to ward off potentially devastating litigation.

By Amy Miller

8 minute read

September 30, 2010 | Law.com

James Zhu, a partner with the Chinese law firm Jun He, has been busy setting up an office in Palo Alto, Calif., which opened last May. Zhu has been meeting with attorneys from several U.S. firms with the goal of creating partnerships to serve clients in both Silicon Valley and China.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read

September 08, 2010 | Law.com

Hewlett-Packard's legal team will have a hard time persuading a judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming president of Oracle Corp., employment law experts say. HP sued Hurd on Tuesday, claiming that he violated a confidentiality provision of his severance agreement by accepting the post at Oracle. Without explicitly saying so, HP's complaint relies on the doctrine of inevitable disclosure, a concept that has been shot down by some California judges.

By Amy Miller

3 minute read