Julie Beck

December 14, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Its end-of-the-year bonus time at law firms, where I can only presume lawyers are greedily rubbing their hands together in anticipation of a fat stack of cash

By Julie Beck

2 minute read

December 13, 2012 | Inside Counsel

As of Tuesday, Michigan is now the 24th right-to-work state in the U.S.

By Julie Beck

2 minute read

December 12, 2012 | Inside Counsel

InsideCounsel is committed to promoting diversity in the corporate legal profession, and one of the ways we do that is through our Transformative Leadership Awards (TLA) program.

By Julie Beck

2 minute read

December 11, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Advocates of patent reform now have another weapon in their holstera recent study by California law professor Colleen Chien that found the majority of patent suits are now brought by trolls.

By Julie Beck

3 minute read

December 11, 2012 | Inside Counsel

On Sept. 16, new methods of challenging patents before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) went into effect, thanks to the America Invents Act.

By Julie Beck, Steven Seidenberg

12 minute read

December 10, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Consumer electronics Goliath Best Buy Inc. was hit on Thursday by a sizable pebble from the slingshot of David-sized startup software company TechForward, in the form of $27 million in damages for trade secret theft.

By Julie Beck

8 minute read

December 07, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Facebooks highly-anticipated initial public offering took a dark turn when a technical glitch at the stock exchange Nasdaq delayed the IPO by half an hour.

By Julie Beck

2 minute read

December 06, 2012 | Inside Counsel

To counteract the angry unpaid interns whove had bad experiences (and are going to court because of it), the magazine giant Hearst Corp. is seeking the stories of interns who valued the opportunities and experiences they received from their internships.

By Julie Beck

4 minute read

December 04, 2012 | Inside Counsel

When you find the perfect wedding dress, you might feel like you want to wear it forever. But if you actually have to be sewn into it, youll probably change your mind.

By Julie Beck

2 minute read

December 03, 2012 | Inside Counsel

Yahoo Inc. is facing $2.7 billion in damages after a Mexican civil court ruled that it breached contract on a yellow pages listing service.

By Julie Beck

1 minute read