Keith Ecker

September 30, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Mike Dillon of Sun Microsystems has made a name as the first GC of a Fortune 500 company to author a blog.

By Keith Ecker

3 minute read

September 30, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Smart companies go online to confront anonymous defamers.

By Keith Ecker

5 minute read

September 30, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

New regulations give multinationals guidance on intercompany agreements.

By Keith Ecker

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September 22, 2006 | Inside Counsel

Thousands of attorneys, both outside and in-house counsel, descended upon Chicago for the International Bar Association 2006 Annual Conference. Attorneys from nations ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe were in attendance for the event, which lasted from Sept. 17 to Sept. 22. One of the centerpieces of the conference was a...

By Keith Ecker

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September 22, 2006 | Inside Counsel

Thousands of attorneys, both outside and in-house counsel, descended upon Chicago for the International Bar Association 2006 Annual Conference. Attorneys from nations ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe were in attendance for the event, which lasted from Sept. 17 to Sept. 22. One of the centerpieces of the conference was a...

By Keith Ecker

17 minute read

September 15, 2006 | Inside Counsel

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) set a new record on Sept. 11. The pharmaceutical giant made the largest single payment to the IRS in U.S. history--an amount that totaled more than $3 billion. The payment stemmed from an ongoing dispute over GSK's transfer pricing of goods and services between itself and its foreign...

By Keith Ecker

3 minute read

September 08, 2006 | Inside Counsel

A federal judge in San Francisco is allowing a lawsuit involving Web access for blind consumers to go forward. The suit concerns blind people's access to Target Corp.'s Web site. The National Federation of the Blind, its California affiliate and a University of California-Berkeley student filed suit in February. The...

By Keith Ecker

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September 07, 2006 | Inside Counsel

A decade ago it was rare to see anyone but the general counsel head a legal department. But within the past five years, there has been a growing trend of giving the GC C-suite status--at least in name. The title of Chief Legal Officer has slowly infiltrated the lexicon of...

By Keith Ecker

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September 01, 2006 | Inside Counsel

Hongfujin Precision Industry Co., a Chinese supplier of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, has reduced the damages it's seeking in a lawsuit against two Chinese journalists. In June, Chinese Business News reporters Wang You and Weng Bao wrote an investigative piece alleging the company forced employees at its Longhua plant to...

By Keith Ecker

1 minute read

August 31, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

It's not easy for in-house lawyers to stay informed but thanks to blogs the task of sifting through recent cases has become less painful.

By Keith Ecker

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