Amy Miller
December 07, 2009 | Corporate Counsel
$72 Billion Big-Oil General Counsel Is a Marathon WomanMaybe it was being so close to the Gulf of Mexico. But even when Sylvia Kerrigan was a law student at the University of Texas, she wanted to practice maritime law. And for years, she worked at a Texas law firm handling cases for companies that drilled for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and shipped it out. Now Kerrigan has been named general counsel of Marathon Oil Corporation, a Houston-based company that generated more than $72 billion in revenues in 2008. She replaces William Schwind, Jr., who retired November 1.
By Amy Miller
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February 01, 2011 | The Recorder
Digital Chocolate and Zynga Settle over 'Mafia Wars'Litigation Chair Michael Rhodes was among a Cooley team that represented Digital Chocolate in its settlement with Zynga.
By Amy Miller
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April 25, 2011 | Legaltech News
Google Hit With $5M in Damages for Infringing Open Source PatentA Texas federal jury ordered Google to pay $5 million in damages for infringing a Linux-related patent held by Texas-based Bedrock Computer Technologies. The jury verdict doesn't bode well for the dozens of Android-related suits facing Google and the smartphone makers who use the operating system, says an open source advocate who blogged about the verdict.
By Amy Miller
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August 30, 2011 | Legaltech News
Bridges & Mavrakakis Withdraws From Defending Apple in Samsung SuitBridges & Mavrakakis in Silicon Valley has withdrawn from defending Apple in a patent and trademark infringement suit in California's Northern District over Android technology. Citing conflicts of interest, lawyers for plaintiff Samsung at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan had asked U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to disqualify attorneys from the firm.
By Amy Miller
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October 16, 2008 | Corporate Counsel
The Humana TouchA New Jersey boy has found his latest job opportunity a little farther south, at Louisville-based Humana. Christopher Todoroff is now general counsel at one of the country's largest health insurance companies. Todoroff came to Humana from Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna, where he oversaw all of Aetna's corporate governance activities, and played a leading role as senior counsel in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, risk management and investments.
By Amy Miller
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November 17, 2010 | The Recorder
Former Cisco IP Vice President Mallun Yen Moves to RPX Corp.By Amy Miller
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December 07, 2009 | Texas Lawyer
Survey: The Bell Is Tolling for the Billable HourCompanies are successfully pushing their outside counsel to abandon the billable hour, a new survey indicates. In October, The American Lawyer and the Association of Corporate Counsel jointly surveyed 587 general counsel and chief legal officers, and found that 39 percent paid firms more money this year under alternative fee arrangements than they did in 2008. Meanwhile, just over half (53 percent) said spending on alternative fee arrangements had stayed the same. Only 8 percent said it had fallen.
By Amy Miller
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March 25, 2010 | Corporate Counsel
YouTube's Fiery Top Lawyer Accuses Viacom of 'Secret' Upload CampaignAs the two media giants' copyright war gets uglier, the video-sharing site's chief counsel Zahavah Levine posts on its official blog that Viacom 'continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube.'
By Amy Miller
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March 01, 2010 | Corporate Counsel
Are We Done Yet?Comverse's ex–GC gets hit with another penalty for stock option backdating.
By By Amy Miller
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June 29, 2011 | Corporate Counsel
Powers Parts Ways With Weil, Gotshal, Will Start Own FirmPatent litigator Matthew Powers announced this week that he is leaving Weil, Gotshal & Manges to start his own plaintiffs firm, Tensegrity.
By Amy Miller
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