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May 08, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Overseas Corporate Deals Boost Paul Hastings

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, long known for its employment litigation and real estate work, is banking on its corporate department for future growth. Last year, the firm's revenues topped $813.5 million, up 22 percent from 2005. Seth Zachary, chairman and partner in the New York office, attributes the growth to the firm's corporate deals, many of which closed in Asia and Europe. He also says increased revenues came from a growing practice in intellectual property litigation.
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March 06, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

An In-House Lab for Future GCs

The University of Chicago Law School has developed an innovative program to help students gain experience in the business of law.
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March 29, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Google's Guy Gets Busy

Google Inc.'s Android operating system may be open source software, but using it comes at a price for its partners. So it's helping out with the inevitable infringement suits.
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October 01, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Insecurity Complex

A laptop theft at the VA led to questions about the general counsel�s role in computer security policy.
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March 01, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Banding Against Bribery

A new U.K. law will force companies everywhere to toughen their antibribery efforts.
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May 31, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

King & Spalding Left Out of Longtime Client Coke's $4.1 Billion Deal

Industry observers have viewed Coca-Cola's purchase of Energy Brands and the Glaceau brand as Coke's embrace of the new world of vitamin-enhanced beverages. Coke may also be forging a new world among its transaction lawyers, as it tapped Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom instead of King & Spalding for the $4.1 billion cash deal. It's been called the biggest corporate acquisition in Coke's history, and the absence of King & Spalding is noticeable.
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May 07, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Review: 3G MicroCell Adds Self-Service to AT&T Cellular Plans

U.S. iPhone users have joked Apple's gadget can do everything but make phone calls, partly due to congestion on AT&T's wireless network. Now AT&T is offering a fix: a $150 mini cell tower called the 3G MicroCell. AP technology writer Rachel Metz offers her reception to the device.
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June 28, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Kaplan Blasts U.S. Pressure on KPMG Case Fees

Saying the government "let its zeal get in the way of its judgment," Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan delivered a harsh rebuke to prosecutors Tuesday for pressuring KPMG to cut off legal fees for employees unwilling to cooperate in the nation's largest tax fraud investigation. The decision has been eagerly anticipated by defense groups and business organizations who a increasingly concerned at prosecutorial tactics they believe are eroding defendants' rights to counsel and a fair trial.
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October 07, 2005 | Corporate Counsel

GCs, Labor Solicitor Talk Katrina, SOX

In a speech organized by the Atlanta office of Littler Mendelson, Howard M. Radzely, solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor, talked about some of the issues facing the department's staff of 475 lawyers, including the effect of Hurricane Katrina, Sarbanes-Oxley's big expectations and the biggest fine in the department's history -- $21 million against BP Products North America. Radzely also joined a panel discussion with three GCs from companies that operate in the Southeast. including Cingular Wireless.
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