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May 18, 2005 |

U.S. Senate Leaders Call Off Compromise Talks

The Senate's top leaders have ended their attempt to find a compromise on President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, but other members continued to work on a possible deal to clear five blocked appeals court appointees and end threats to change the long-standing filibuster rules.
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October 21, 2009 |

Former In-House Banking Lawyer Found Guilty of $12 Million Fraud

The former deputy head of legal at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi has been found guilty of a multimillion-dollar fraud, a U.K. court ruled Tuesday. Former in-house lawyer Kate Johns faces jail for her crimes, with a sentence to be handed down in December. London's Southwark Crown Court ruled that Johns was guilty of having repeatedly conned colleagues into signing off large sums of money for investment. In total, the bank lost 7.4 million pounds ($12.3 million) as a result of the scam.
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January 09, 2008 |

Court Cold to Real Estate Bar's Furor Over Ethics Ruling

Real estate lawyers say they've been snake-bit by an ethics ruling that bans closing side deals known as "sellers' concessions," but the state Supreme Court doesn't seem to see a malady, much less the need for a remedy.
4 minute read
April 28, 2011 |

Budget Cuts to Hamper PTO's Efforts to Reduce Application Backlog

Recent federal budget cuts to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will take a toll on the agency's efforts to cut its massive patent application backlog.
4 minute read
January 26, 2006 |

Internet-Based Service May Help Simplify Small-Firm Calendaring

Running a small law firm is like juggling bowling balls, chainsaws and eggs -- it takes a special set of skills and it's sometimes nerve-wracking, but it's never dull. For Ross Veta, of San Diego's Veta & Veta, one part of the job kept dragging things down: the calendaring. Veta has found an Internet-based solution he likes, however. Deadlines on Demand, which is offered on a pay-per-use basis, has things looking up. Can it help your firm, too?
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May 14, 2013 |

SEC Drops Complaint Against Canyon Acquisitions Of Boca

Canyon Acquisitions LLC has settled a complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission involving Canadian investors in the company's large international developments.
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August 04, 2006 |

Stanford Law Professor Pens First IP Legal Thriller

Over his 39-year career, Stanford Law professor Paul Goldstein's work has been required reading for thousands of intellectual property law students. But his latest writing -- the first legal thriller to be set against the backdrop of IP law -- is attracting a wider audience. The spark for the novel came when Goldstein worked on a "billion-dollar, bet-the-company" copyright case over the James Bond film franchise, which led him to ask what he calls "the question at the threshold of every novel: 'What if?'"
6 minute read
November 15, 2007 |

Pillsbury Winthrop Accused of Another Conflict of Interest

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman was tossed from client SonicBlue's bankruptcy case for not disclosing a conflict of interest. Now lawyers for a creditor claim the firm failed to disclose yet another conflict.
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April 15, 2013 |

Class Action Cacophony at the Supreme Court

Recent high court cases display an abiding disagreement about permissible 'merits' inquiries at class certification.
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Q&A with Former ICC Prosecutor Christine Chung
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We tend to steer away from film recommendations here at the Litigation Daily, but a documentary about the International Criminal Court, airing on PBS on Tuesday, should be worth your while. "The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court" follows ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and his team for three years A central figure in the film is Christine Chung, an American lawyer who was one of the first trial attorneys at the ICC. We caught up with her by phone on Friday afternoon at her office at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges.

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