Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

September 15, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In-house intellectual property attorneys spend a huge amount of time managing their budgets, according to a new study from IP management and analytics company Lecorpio. 


By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

4 minute read

September 14, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

As cybercriminals get more and more sophisticated, General Electric Co. is putting all hands on deck to protect its confidential materials, a GE in-house lawyer said at a panel discussion on Monday in New York City.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

4 minute read

September 13, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Tina Chappell, Intel's associate general associate and director of intellectual property policy, defended the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at a conference in New York on Monday.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

4 minute read

September 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Our latest list of best-paid general counsel reveals that New York is the place to be, with four of the top 10 in the nation hailing from the Empire State. These GCs, who are ranked by cash compensation, which includes salary, bonuses and nonequity compensation, took home some hefty chunks of change.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

17 minute read

September 12, 2016 | National Law Journal

It's The Walt Disney Co.'s Alan Braverman who once again had the magic, as he took the top spot in our latest list of best-paid general counsel for the second year in a row.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

17 minute read

September 09, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act got some ammunition—not to mention a laugh—last month, when Warner Bros. Entertainment embarrassingly asked Google to take down hundreds of copyright-infringing websites, only to later realize that it had included legitimate sites and some of the company's own official pages.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

7 minute read

September 02, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Avvo Inc.'s online fixed-fee legal service violates ethics rules related to advertising and splitting fees, a recent South Carolina bar advisory opinion found. Not surprisingly, Avvo general counsel Josh King disagrees.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A patent lawyer's opportunities to find work in-house are far fewer than their opportunities to work at a law firm, a new survey confirms. Less than 24 percent of patent attorneys work in-house, according to recent findings from online platform Patexia Inc.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

August 30, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A number of companies are moving away from the billable hour, favoring alternative fee arrangements instead. At BASF Corp., not only is an AFA preferred, firms are required to present such an arrangement for review.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

August 18, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In what may strike some as a surprising ruling, a judge has blocked Zara from seeing files its former GC, who is suing for discrimination, stored on a company laptop.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

14 minute read