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January 11, 2010 | Law.com

Homeless Man Seeks $2.4 Million From Lawyer Over Nuisance Suit

Houston lawyer Harry C. Arthur touched a nerve in one homeless man when Arthur filed a suit seeking to shut down a church-sponsored operation that provides meals and services for homeless people, on the grounds that the center is a "private nuisance." Louis Charles Hamilton II filed a pro se suit seeking a minimum of $2.4 million in damages, alleging that Arthur "unflinchingly, courageously" and with an "audaciously bold potty mouth" accused people who are fed at the center of being "derelicts," among other things.
6 minute read
July 14, 2009 | Law.com

A New Angle Emerges in Copyright Dispute Over Obama 'Hope' Image

A new party has entered the high-stakes copyright skirmish over a photograph that served as the basis for the most ubiquitous image of the 2008 presidential campaign: the man who took that photograph. So far, the dispute has pitted The Associated Press against artist Shepard Fairey, but freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, represented by Boies, Schiller & Flexner, says he is the rightful owner of the photograph copyrights.
5 minute read
March 23, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

N.J. Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions involving N.J. companies.
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March 21, 2001 | Law.com

Lie-tery Winners

Over the years, some very decent people have shaken my hand, smiled in my face and then lied to me -- under oath, says D.C. lawyer Michael Jones. At first Jones says he was offended. Then he came to expect it. But now he thinks something needs to be done about it because the oath has become virtually meaningless. Lawsuits often generate what Jones calls lottery lies. Even grandmothers and cops play the game.
6 minute read
November 13, 2009 | The Recorder

Intel Picks WilmerHale Vet as New GC

The night before announcing its massive settlement with AMD, the Silicon Valley chipmaker hired D.C. antitrust specialist Douglas Melamed.
3 minute read
March 02, 2007 | Law.com

Top Law Firms Undergo a Rainbow Revolution

Am Law 200 firms are putting out the lavender welcome mat to gay attorneys, with perks that seemed radical just 10 years ago. "It used to be the love that dare not speak its name," says Morrison & Foerster managing partner Keith Wetmore about being gay at law firms. "Now it's the love that cannot keep its mouth shut." Wetmore, who joined MoFo as an openly gay associate in 1982, says being gay is neither a liability nor a novelty nowadays. "There are so many of us that we don't have to like each other."
8 minute read
October 07, 2009 | Law.com

Some Midsize Firms Believe Now Is the Time to Expand

Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced this week that it will open a new office in Reno, Nev. In some respects, the news is atypical. The number of law firm office openings has slowed significantly along with the economy, particularly for new domestic locations. In other ways, Brownstein is representative of the relatively small number of firms still expanding in the United States right now: midsize and based outside of major financial centers such as New York and Chicago.
4 minute read
September 05, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Class-Action Antitrust Suit Wins OK

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has greenlighted a class-action antitrust suit brought by purchasers of corrugated paper products that accused paper manufacturers of conspiring to decrease their production so that supply would plummet and prices would rise.
7 minute read
December 07, 2005 | Law.com

China on the Cheap

U.S. lawyers like O'Melveny & Myers' Howard Chao says there's growing pressure to discount fees for Chinese clients as firms flock to opportunities there.
7 minute read
February 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Growth strategy depends on laterals

SONNENSCHEIN NATH Rosenthal partner Kara Baysinger is on the road. Every week since July, she has landed in an airport far from her San Francisco Bay Area home, climbed into a cab, and headed for one meeting or another. When she's in a city with a Sonnenschein office, she sets up shop in a nondescript room reserved for visiting partners; otherwise she makes do however she can.
24 minute read

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