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Yours, Mine and Ours: What You Need to Know About IP
When it comes to safeguarding your company's intellectual property, what you don't know can hurt you. To ease the potential pain, GC South asked several Atlanta-area attorneys to talk about what every in-house counsel needs to know about IP. The panel's wide-ranging and lively discussion covered cybersquatting, assignment of rights -- and one IP lawyer's adaptation of comedian Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" monologue as a means to help identify patent trolls.Employee Accuses Red Hot Law Group of Fraud
When Carl R. Johnston joined Atlanta's Red Hot Law Group, he knew he'd be making less money than at a traditional firm, but he expected a share from a stock incentive plan that Red Hot said was in the works to provide opportunities to invest in its high-tech clients. The problem: Red Hot didn't implement the plan while he was there, and didn't intend to, he says. So he sued Red Hot and its founder for fraud.The Real World According to Summer Associates
Summer associates come off as a tough crew in The American Lawyer's survey of almost 6,800 interns at about 200 firms, welcoming brutal honesty about their own performances and leaving none of the firms immune from suggestions for improvement. But overall, law students gave their summer employers lots of praise. While the survey's upper tiers included many familiar names, plenty of newcomers hit high notes -- and two of the top 10 slots were captured by firms that vaulted more than 100 spots.Midlevel associates grouse about workload
BEN JOHNSON III, the managing partner of Alston Bird, tells a story about being a young partner at the firm in the early 1970s. He was sitting in on an interview between then-senior partner Philip Alston, Jr., and a second-year law student. The student said, "It must be really exciting to practice law here." Alston would have none of it: "No, it's not.Forsee Arbitration Turns on 'Integrity'
The dust finally is settling in the dispute between Gary D. Forsee and BellSouth. After a months-long battle spread among three courts over whether Forsee could escape his employment contract to join competitor Sprint as their chief executive officer, arbitrator William H. Webster gave Forsee the go-ahead -- with conditions -- on Tuesday. But it's not necessarily over yet.COPY: Firm-by-Firm Survey Responses
From Allen & Overy to Winston & Strawn, the Summer Associates Survey was summers' chance to dish on their firms. And dish they did. Get the skinny on everything from quality of work assigned to approachability of associates and partners to the relative fun of karaoke nights vs. fishing, wine tasting outings, baseball games ... . (You didn't think it was all business, did you?)Trending Stories
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