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Steven Weinberger, general counsel of Wisdom Natural Brands, boasted on an online social network last month that he saves money by drafting his own trademark applications before sending them to outside lawyers for review. Paul Escobar, the top lawyer at Cumberland Gulf Group of Companies, wrote back saying he, too, sometimes drafts legal documents to establish content and tone before outside counsel get their hands on them.Three join Fish & Richardson's new office
By Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter Fish Richardson has added two partners and an associate to its new Atlanta office. Tina Williams McKeon, a partner, joins from Needle Rosenberg and will lead the Atlanta office's life sciences practice. Lawrence A. Aaronson, a partner, joins from Woodcock Washburn and will lead the office's software and electrical patent prosecution practice.Groups sue to stop seismic oil exploration in Arctic seas
ANCHORAGE, Alaska AP - Alaska Native and environmental groups sued Monday to stop exploration by oil companies this summer in Arctic waters frequented by whales, seals and other marine species.The groups are challenging federal permits that allow Shell Oil Co. and BP PLC to search for oil and gas using powerful acoustic devices that have been shown, at times, to harm a variety of marine animals.'Middle man' in corruption case pleads to perjury
A drug felon charged as the co-defendant of two former South Georgia judges in a federal corruption indictment has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal grand jury. During a plea hearing Jan. 20 before U.S. District Senior Judge Hugh Lawson in Macon, Hayward Collier said that he lied to a federal grand jury when he denied acting as "middle man" between a woman seeking to mitigate her boyfriend's criminal sentence and Brooks E.Ford to sell debt through Fed as deadline nears
Ford Motor Co. is relying on a Federal Reserve program to market securities backed by auto-dealer payments, showing that borrowers may still need U.S. help to issue asset-backed securities as debt markets heal.Ford's finance arm plans to issue $500 million of the so-called floorplan bonds, linked to loans that finance cars on dealer lots.Plaintiffs' immigration status 'irrelevant' to their wage claims, Mass. judge rules
A Boston federal judge has called the question of whether two plaintiffs are illegal aliens "irrelevant" to their Fair Labor Standards Act claims about unpaid wages and their "suitability" to lead a class.On March 23, Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. of the District of Massachusetts issued an order in Lin v.11th Circuit overturns denial of asylum
A FEDERAL APPEALS court took the unusual step Thursday of overriding the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied asylum to a Colombian activist who was kidnapped, beaten and threatened by a leftist guerrilla group. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Javier Mauricio Martinez Ruiz's "kidnapping, physical assaults and threatening phone calls" rise to the level of persecution.
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