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September 08, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Plugged In: Former Yahoo GC Sobel Joins Electric Carmaker Tesla

New Tesla GC Jonathan Sobel has his work cut out for him. The company may be a clean-tech darling, but it's also a magnet for law suits, including a bitter spat between its CEO and an ousted co-founder.
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October 14, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Privacy Class Actions May Be Too Big to Settle

Plaintiffs seem to be in the driver's seat in two big privacy class actions against Google, and this is the point where settlement discussions would typically intensify. But the parties may confront a scenario where the case is just too expensive to strike a deal.
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September 09, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Armed with Dukes Ruling, Reed Smith Slays Class in Discrimination Case Against Wells Fargo

The U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes might not have turned out to be the class action silver bullet that some had anticipated, but that's little consolation to class action plaintiffs lawyers who brought claims against Wells Fargo over allegedly discriminatory subprime lending. On Tuesday San Francisco federal district court judge Maxine Chesney rejected the plaintiffs' motion for class certification, ruling that the proposed class of more than 1 million black and Hispanic homeowners didn't survive the certification standard for commonality set out by the Supreme Court.
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February 07, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Samsung to Pay $90M to Settle Price-Fixing Lawsuit

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 38-state lawsuit charging the company and others with price fixing, according to New York's attorney general. The suit, filed in July, claimed Korea-based Samsung and other companies made secret arrangements to raise the prices of dynamic random access memory chips. About $80 million of the settlement will go to consumers nationwide while $10 million will cover losses suffered by states and local governments.
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August 11, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

Flashback to July '02: Edwards on Regulation of Corporate Lawyers

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April 11, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Majority of 2012 Patent Litigation Filed by 'Patent Trolls'

More than half of the patent litigation cases filed in the U.S. in 2012 were brought by companies whose sole purpose is to license patents—so-called "patent trolls"—according to a new study.
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August 25, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

ACC Blog Series Drives to Core of Client-Firm Relationships

Maybe you've read about this dance, or even tried a few steps. No, this isn't Dancing With the Stars, it's the alternative billing dance. And a new ACC blog series aims to show law firms how it's done.
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June 14, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid With Obamacare

Organizations large and small are quickly running out of time to ensure that they are compliant with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010.
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May 14, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Spring-Loading Options

Three Delaware opinions confirm that the controversial practice of spring-loading options -- the granting of options just prior to the release of favorable company information -- may give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty claim. The decisions reveal the analytical framework that courts will likely use when deciding future claims. These early signals should be heeded by in-house counsel dealing with changes to equity-based executive compensation plans, say attorneys Thomas J. Quigley and Steven S. Flores.
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March 08, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

How Pac-Man Got Ahead of IP Pack

Pac-Man may be just a distant childhood memory for many. Not for Neil Smith, partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley in San Jose, who represents Namco, owner of the Pac-Man games.
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