Ross Todd

July 19, 2010 | The American Lawyer

Blame it on Iqbal or a backlog of ginormous cases, but the securities plaintiffs bar is increasingly looking away from federal court and toward state court litigation, according to Advisen's latest study of securities filings.

By Ross Todd

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May 27, 2011 | The American Lawyer

EBay subsidiary PayPal sued Google for trade secret theft on the same day that Google unveiled its new service that lets consumers use their smart phones to pay at checkout counters.

By Ross Todd

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August 11, 2009 | The American Lawyer

The Litigation Daily has grown accustomed to lawyers boasting about their victories. We haven't, however, heard many lawyers brag about winning on the cheap. So when Fish & Richardson's Lauren Degnan sent an e-mail mentioning the "extremely cost-effective way" her team scored a summary judgment ruling for the digital map company TomTom, we hopped on the phone to get details.

By Ross Todd

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February 23, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority isn't taking kindly to Charles Schwab & Co.'s efforts to get a San Francisco federal district court judge to bless provisions requiring customers of the brokerage to sign class action waivers.

By Ross Todd

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March 04, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Isn't golf supposed to be a gentlemanly game in which disputes are settled over a drink back at the clubhouse? Not, apparently, when it comes to golf ball design. The bitter IP rivalry between the two leading golf ball manufacturers intensified Tuesday, when both companies filed suits in Delaware federal district court, each accusing the other of infringing patents on the top-of-the-line golf balls used by tour professionals.

By Ross Todd

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May 20, 2011 | The American Lawyer

The proposed settlement would buy Sirius relief from a billion-dollar class action over its post-merger price hikes that a federal judge certified in March.

By Ross Todd

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January 09, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Friday's ruling by the National Labor Relations Board, which rejected an arbitration agreement requiring employees to waive their class action rights, was quickly labeled a game-changer. But despite the Supreme Court's much-cited Concepcion decision last year, employers were already struggling to persuade the courts to enforce arbitration agreements with employees.

By Ross Todd

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December 09, 2010 | The American Lawyer

In a case that quite literally involved shades of grey, a three-judge appellate panel concluded that a process for creating halftone images does meet post-Bilski standards for patentability.

By Ross Todd

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January 11, 2012 | The American Lawyer

Facebook's lawyers at Gibson Dunn aren't letting up in their defense against Paul Ceglia's claim to an 84 percent ownership stake in the online social networking juggernaut. And now Ceglia has been ordered to help pay their fees.

By Ross Todd

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April 21, 2006 | Law.com

Gwen Hassan, the first general counsel of NAL Worldwide, has an office on wheels. Hassan, 39, who became GC in January, says her laptop case doubles as a part-time workspace. The flexibility allows her to spend half her week working from home, where she can look after her two children and stay available on her BlackBerry and laptop. "I dial in from my daughters' school concerts, from the road, from wherever I am," she says.

By Ross Todd

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