Lisa Shuchman

Lisa Shuchman is Executive Editor of Law.com International. At ALM she has also worked for The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining ALM, she worked in Japan for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and in the U.S. for the Associated Press, The Industry Standard, and regional newspapers. She received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @LisaLawReporter.

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June 01, 2004 | Law.com

Redmond Turns Blue

T has to be the greatest licensing story ever told. In 1980 IBM Corporation needed an operating system to launch a line of personal computers, and its executives thought Microsoft Corporation had built one. Wrong. Twenty-five-year-old Bill Gates and company didn't have what IBM sought, but they wanted to please IBM. So, in a fit of business genius, they figured out a way to make IBM happy and themselves wealthy. For $50,000, Microsoft bought the complete rights to a rudimentary operating system called QDOS

By Lisa Shuchman

7 minute read

July 21, 2006 | Law.com

Cash Cow

It took a mere 24 years to prosecute a patent for a UC invention aimed at increasing milk production in cows.

By Lisa Shuchman

4 minute read

October 30, 2007 | Law.com

Exit Strategies

Law firms, under pressure from clients to improve their diversity, are working harder to attract minority lawyers but often fail to keep recruits for more than a few years. "There is often a bias, unconscious or conscious, on the part of partners and senior associates that keeps minority associates from the good assignments. So these minorities ... leave the firm," says Edwards Angell Chief Diversity Officer Paulette Brown, who has some ideas on what firms can do to retain minority attorneys.

By Lisa Shuchman

9 minute read

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