Karen Sloan

July 14, 2010 | Law.com

Online auction giant eBay was hit Tuesday with a $3.8 billion patent infringement lawsuit. XPRT Ventures, which holds patents covering e-commerce payments and methods, filed suit in Delaware federal court against eBay and subsidiaries, including PayPal and StubHub. The suit alleges infringement of six XPRT patents and alleges that eBay misappropriated information provided in confidence. The basis for infringement dates from 2001, when XPRT inventors applied for patents.

By Karen Sloan

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April 30, 2010 | National Law Journal

A Virginia attorney was publicly reprimanded this week for lax oversight of a legal secretary who stole more than $42,000 from his firm while on probation for stealing from a judge.

By Karen Sloan

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July 24, 2009 | Law.com

One law firm decides to stay put, while another decides to move on. Perkins Coie's partnership voted last week to remain in its downtown Seattle headquarters for another 17 years, despite being wooed by the owners of several new or nearly finished buildings. Two thousand miles away in Cincinnati, Frost Brown Todd has chosen to move its main office to a new building in late 2011. Some 300 law firm workers will make the move into four floors of the new Great American Tower at Queen City Square.

By Karen Sloan

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October 20, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recent graduates of the University of Miami School of Law are getting some added assistance in the job arena.

By Karen Sloan

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January 31, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

The University of Oklahoma College of Law is in the money. The school on Wednesday announced that it has received a $6 million donation -- the largest single gift in its history. The donation was from Frank Elkouri, a professor emeritus at the school, and his wife, Edna Asper Elkouri.

By Karen Sloan

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March 04, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Third-year law students have been lamenting the unfortunate timing of their entry into the job market. Now they have some cold, hard numbers to quantify their woes.

By Karen Sloan

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September 29, 2011 | New York Law Journal

More than 1,400 attorneys were forced into the job market after six major firms shut down during 2008 and 2009's tough financial times. A new study shows the vast majority of those attorneys have since landed new jobs.

By Karen Sloan

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April 13, 2010 | Law.com

It's not the traditional law professor career path, but disgraced securities plaintiffs attorney Bill Lerach might make the transition from prison cell to ivory tower. The University of California, Irvine School of Law is considering having Lerach teach an upper-level course in 2011, the school confirmed Monday. Lerach told the San Diego Union-Tribune last weekend that he is developing a course called "Regulation of Free Market Capitalism -- Why Have We Failed?"

By Karen Sloan

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July 22, 2011 | National Law Journal

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law has filed its response to a class action brought in May by a 2008 graduate alleging that the school misrepresented its graduate employment statistics. Essentially, it argued that the graduate hadn't done enough research before enrolling.

By Karen Sloan

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July 15, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

"Arrest the Jury," read one sign outside the Orange County, Fla., Courthouse in Orlando on July 7, when Casey Anthony was sentenced to four years and fined $1,000 for four misdemeanor counts of lying to law enforcement.

By Karen Sloan

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