By Marcia Coyle | October 3, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term this week with a challenge that could have profound business implications for patent holders and those who pay them for licenses to use the patents in deve
By Amy Miller | February 22, 2008
Sandor Samuels has, quite possibly, the least enviable in-house legal job right now in corporate America. As general counsel and litigation chief of embattled mortgage lender Countrywide Fina
By Mary P. Gallagher | January 12, 2006
What started out as a run-of-the-mill suit among former business partners has become a test case of the obligation to preserve e-mails and other electronic data that may become relevant to litigati
By Susan F. Friedman | December 26, 2007
In reflections on 2007, the view from the rear window showed claims against in-house counsel pertaining to stock options backdating, fraud, discovery abuses, lying to investors and auditors, inside
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | December 13, 2007
Changes in patent rules -- in the courts, in Congress and in federal regulations -- have forced general counsel to take sides against each other and caused some outside attorneys to sound an alarm.
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By Thomas E. Riley and Robert E. Conrad | January 10, 2007
Federal appeals courts have generally held that the Medical Device Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act pre-empt tort claims relating to medical devices that have undergone the Foo
By Mark Yacano | April 25, 2006
It has been well reported that the number of suits actually making it to trial has dropped sharply in recent years. By some accounts, jury trials now comprise less than 2 percent of all cases filed
By Charles Toutant | September 12, 2005
At the end of each day of a five-week trial in Middlesex County, N.J., plaintiffs' lawyers Barry Eichen and William Levinson spent hours reviewing and editing video footage of testimony, while
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By Jacqueline C. Wolff and Pamela Sawhney | January 31, 2007
" ... [A]lthough nothing is off the table when you voluntarily disclose, I can tell you in unequivocal terms that you will get a real benefit ... ." Despite these heartening words by
By John Caher | January 11, 2006
A recent trend in which state and federal prosecutors require as part of a plea bargain that corporate defendants waive the attorney-client privilege is raising concern among leaders of the New Yor
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