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Daily Business Review

New Lease Accounting Standards—What You Need to Know

Leasing is an integral part of the everyday activity of most businesses. A business may lease its premises consisting of offices, factories and warehouses. Additionally businesses often lease other assets including vehicles, office equipment and almost anything else that could be bought or purchased.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Representing Celebrities or Not, Lawyers Should Consider These Issues of Confidential Settlements

The recent celebrity scandals involving confidential settlements that purportedly concealed wrongdoing for many years have caused some to question whether confidential settlements strike the appropriate balance between the interests of the settling parties and the public's right to information identifying potential wrongful actors.
19 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Newsmakers: Week of Dec. 4

AppointmentJarvis V. Hollingsworth, a partner in Bracewell's Houston office, has been appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott to serve as chairman of the…
2 minute read

Litigation Daily

Sanctions Slugfest Between Star Litigators from Dechert, Gibson Dunn and Morgan Lewis

"I have never seen a group of lawyers so quick to threaten sanctions against other members of the bar," wrote Morgan Lewis & Bockius' Christopher Parlo of opposing counsel including Dechert's Andrew Levander and Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

No, Really, Compliance Is Fun. And It's Good For Business.

Following the rules certainly helps your legal team sleep at night, especially in an era of big data breaches and sexual harassment scandals
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Antitrust Division Chief Prioritizes Regulation of Standard Setting Organizations

As we discussed in our May 2017 article, the current head of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, brings considerable intellectual property experience to the division. Delrahim started his legal career at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as deputy director for intellectual property rights.
8 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

'Separation of Powers' Implies Cooperation

Abandonment of the political wisdom underlying the separation of powers should give us pause.
13 minute read

Daily Report Online

May In-House Counsel Provide Legal Services Here If They Aren't Licensed in Georgia?

Before taking that in-house position in Georgia, an out-of-state lawyer should know the answer to this question.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Controversial Strategy: Selling Patents to a Native American Tribe

Restasis is patented, and those patents received significant attention last month when they were sold to a Native American tribe—as a litigation strategy. The sale created a significant backlash both in court and from the U.S. Congress.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

Anti-Defamation League Fights Hate in Classrooms Through New Course

Those brave Americans who perished in World War II are rolling over in their graves. Buried in foreign soil and at home, they fought and defeated Nazi ideology. The eternal slumber of these heroes has been disturbed by a resurgence of America's all-time greatest enemy—Nazis.
4 minute read

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