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At some point in a general counsel's career, this formula inevitably will kick in: denied summary judgment + failed mediation = looming trial date What's a G
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Since taking the helm at Qualcomm Inc. in 2005, Paul Jacobs has tried to persuade anyone who would listen that his company is not run by greedy lawyers bent on squeezing customers for money it does
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Plaintiffs lawyers have largely agreed that attorneys Mark Lanier and Chris Seeger will lead the team that will litigate several Vioxx cases simultaneously in a trial slated to begin in January in
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 2, 2007
In the world of general counsel, the Atlanta area has a peculiar situation -- a GC who is not an active member of a state bar association. The GC's company is not complaining. The State Bar of Geor
By Zusha Elinson | June 26, 2008
Finding that an in-house lawyer tried to deceive the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a federal judge ruled Abbott Laboratories'
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A federal judge has doubled a jury's verdict in a Family and Medical Leave Act case after finding that an in-house lawyer's failure to research whether a pregnant worker was covered by the FMLA was
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent patent decisions, and pending rules at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, may leave Congress last in line to board the ship of patent reform. It's not that
By Bennett G. Picker | April 26, 2007
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By Shannon P. Duffy | November 1, 2006
Workers who claim they were cheated out of overtime pay cannot pursue their claims as both an "opt-in" collective action and an "opt-out" class action because the latter frustrates the purposes of
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