Staff Reporter

July 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

As the Olympic games become more global, sponsorship deals get more lucrative and marketers get more creative, efforts to protect the Olympic brand have intensified. Lawyers from London to Beijing have been working to help host cities and potential clients maneuver through a maze of intellectual property, trademark and other laws designed to protect the world's biggest sporting event.

By Vesna Jaksic / Staff reporter

4 minute read

August 06, 2007 | National Law Journal

Plaintiffs' lawyers are testing new theories and venues for class actions over personal data breaches involving consumers worried about identity theft � even as courts throw out cases that don't involve actual damages.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff Reporter

4 minute read

July 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Although the nation's largest law school saw the end to one protracted legal battle earlier this year, it now has another court fight on its hands that alleges nepotism involving a Michigan appeals court judge who sits on its board of directors.

By Leigh Jones / Staff reporter

9 minute read

January 26, 2009 | National Law Journal

A company's so-called tax accrual work papers, prepared with the assistance of in-house and external counsel, are protected work product, a federal appellate court has ruled in an important case closely watched by an anxious business and legal community.

By Marcia Coyle / Staff reporter

6 minute read

November 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

In an explosive development in the Richard Scruggs criminal contempt case, the entire Northern District of Alabama has recused itself, leaving the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to pick a judge in another district.

By Julie Kay / Staff Reporter

3 minute read

July 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor Leo E. Strine Jr.'s sharp-witted courtroom style melds popular-culture references with a multilayered analysis of corporate law issues. Strine's style has attracted attention and admiration from lawyers, but the substance of his recent bench decisions calling for more company disclosure in proposed mergers and acquisitions before a shareholder vote and addressing the subtle points of Delaware corporate law have altered dealmaking.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff Reporter

10 minute read

September 29, 2008 | The American Lawyer

The gender pay gap has always been a sore subject bubbling near the surface of law firms across the nation. Now it has boiled over the top. A recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that women lawyers still earn far less than their male counterparts. The statistic didn't surprise anyone, but that didn't stop it from triggering a fresh round of debate on scores of blogs and within women's legal circles.

By Tresa Baldas / Staff reporter

8 minute read

July 30, 2007 | National Law Journal

When Jeff Brauer left his job serving of counsel to a law firm in China, he spent five months sending e-mails and hired two attorneys to collect $150,000 in unpaid compensation he claims the firm still owed him. When that didn't work, he started his own blog.

By Amanda Bronstad / Staff Reporter

4 minute read

February 09, 2009 | National Law Journal

Crisis combinations of banks and financial services companies propped up last year's weak U.S. mergers and acquisitions market, which was battered by volatile stocks markets, the credit crisis and deals that withered before closing. There was almost a "forced consolidation" of major parts of the banking and insurance sectors due to the economic and credit crisis, said Jim Woolery, a corporate partner at New York's Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

11 minute read