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'
By Shannon P. Duffy | January 30, 2009
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
By Marcia Coyle | May 9, 2007
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
Editor's Note: In order to protect the confidentiality of participants, the anecdotes in this article represent a composite of actual mediations.Over the past decade or so, mediat
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
By George Socha & Thomas Gelbmann | August 29, 2005
Results are in from the third annual "Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey" and, not surprisingly, the market for electronic discovery services and software continues to expand by leaps
By Lynne Marek | October 5, 2006
Fighting lawsuits filed by sickened spinach-eaters may seem like familiar territory for Dole Food Co. Inc. The Westlake Village, Calif.-based food giant has been named as a defendant, along
By Bridget Rohde | October 1, 2007
A previous article proposed employing the proactive investigative approach used by law enfo
By Richard J. Reibstein, John A. Nixon, Dan A. Schulder, Stuart A. Shorenstein and Tiffany Raspberry | May 29, 2008
The legal landscape involving independent contractors has dramatically and swiftly changed. For decades, legal challenges to an employer's use of independent contractors were infrequent, and many c
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