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After months of reading submissions, vetting, and interviews, The American Lawyer has announced the winners of the magazine's sixth biennial Litigation Department of the Year contest. Gibson Dunn cinched the top billing for the second time in a row, but plenty of additional firms and more than a half-dozen individual litigators shared in the spotlight.
There's a reason Lumish has been a hot ticket lately on the lateral market: In his first trial since joining Latham in May, the IP litigator knocked out patent claims against TransPerfect Translation International that had threatened to derail the company's business, leaving his adversaries saddled with a $1 million damages award instead.
Supreme Court Rules Against Inventors in Bilski Case
High court refuses to weigh in on whether software, online-shopping techniques and medical diagnostic tests can be patented, saying only that inventors' request for protection of a method of hedging weather-related risk in energy prices cannot be granted. | Read the Opinion (pdf) | Sarbanes-Oxley AdjustedAnti-Viral: Profile of McAfee GC
General Counsel Mark Cochran of well-known anti-virus software maker McAfee created and manages a 20-person license compliance unit that generates revenues of about $35 million annually. "It's nice being known as a lawyer who is a profit center rather than a cost center," he said.The Buzz in the Valley? It's Busy Again
In the midst of what's supposed to be a summertime slowdown, corporate lawyers in Silicon Valley are finding they don't have much time for golf. Instead, they've been stuck in the office, cheerfully coping with what appears to be a steady rise in corporate work. Numbers compiled by Thomson Financial Securities Data show that mergers and acquisitions activity is up sharply at many of the San Francisco Bay Area's larger corporate firms.Compensatory Damages Not Prerequisite to Punitive Damages, 2nd Circuit Rules
Compensatory damages aren't a prerequisite to punitive damages in an employment discrimination action under federal civil rights law, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The decision came in a case in which a jury awarded the statutory maximum of $100,000 in punitive damages on a woman's claim of sexual harassment stemming from a hostile work environment.Silicon Valley Pioneer Folds Office
Brown & Bain, once one of the Silicon Valley's leading intellectual property litigation firms, is closing its Palo Alto office at the end of July. The decision, which comes after years of setbacks for the office, ends a 20-year run in the Valley for a firm that waged landmark IP wars on behalf of Apple Computer Inc. and Intel Corp.All's Too Quiet on Bonus Front
Flashy New York firms are passing out five-figure "special bonuses" on top of the usual payouts. But California firm leaders dive under their desks when you say the B word.Associate Salaries: War is Over
The recession has brought an end to firms' escalating salary battles at firms like Robert Williams' Sheppard Mullin. We look at who's paying what, and handicap lockstep's chances of survival. Included: a chart breaking down firms' bonus numbers.Trending Stories
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