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September 20, 2010 |

Five Firms Advise on $1.6 Billion Security Deal

French aerospace and security conglomerate Safran has agreed to acquire most of U.S. security firm L-1 Identity Solutions, which specializes in face, fingerprint, palm, and iris recognition systems to secure assets. The deal is another sign that biometrics is the new face of national defense.
4 minute read
October 16, 2000 |

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

The Magic Circle -- to lawyers in the U.K., it refers to an exclusive group of top London law firms. Over the past decade, the five Magic Circle firms -- Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May -- have emerged from the pack to dominate British firms in profits per partners and in their grip on top-quality, high-margin work. And they're coming your way.
4 minute read
December 08, 2004 |

Of Ethics and EDD

As electronic information plays an increasingly vital role in the business of law, the retention of that data will be continually subjected to new methods of archiving and review. But can courts use the same rules for sanctioning abusive practices in e-discovery as they do in traditional discovery?
10 minute read
January 19, 2005 |

Eviction Notices for Cybersquatters

Law and order is taking hold in the Wild West of the Internet. Cybersquatters who try to steal domain names from their legitimate owners have long plagued online commerce. But the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy -- which just marked its fifth anniversary -- has resolved more than 13,000 domain name disputes, 81 percent of them in favor of trademark holders. And if companies need stronger remedies, they can turn to the federal anti-cybersquatting statute.
4 minute read
December 01, 2004 |

Back to the Future

Legal technology always comes back to documents and how to manage them.
10 minute read
April 26, 2000 |

Straight From Left Field

Just about the same time baseball season begins and we hear about major league players wanting higher pay, better perks and more access to TV revenue, major firm associates want higher pay, better perks and more access to the profits.
4 minute read
September 29, 2010 |

Brazilian Bar Concludes Foreign Law Firm Alliances Break Rules

The legal market in Brazil has been particularly active in recent months, with firms like Milbank and Gibson Dunn announcing they were opening Brazilian offices. But a recent ethical and disciplinary panel opinion of the Sao Paulo Bar illustrates the mounting tension over the influx of foreign firms into one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Although only advisory, the opinion indicates where a more formal ruling might fall if a case were brought against major U.S. firms operating in Brazil in alliance with local firms.
3 minute read
February 23, 2001 |

GE and EU Official to Discuss Honeywell

General Electric chairman and CEO John Welch Jr. will meet with European Commissioner for Competition Mario Monti, Europe's top antitrust official, to facilitate quick approval of the company's $45 billion purchase of Honeywell International. Commission officials are studying whether GE's leasing activities, coupled with Honeywell's avionics products, can influence aircraft-market buying patterns.
3 minute read
July 17, 2006 |

Is a Silicon Valley Indictment in the Works Over Stock Options Backdating?

Defense lawyers involved in the investigations of options backdating say at least one Silicon Valley executive will likely be indicted imminently, possibly with more to follow. Gregory Reyes, the ex-CEO of Brocade Communications, is widely expected to be the first indicted in the backdating mess. And Reyes has been quite public about who he thinks is responsible for the company's options problems: Larry Sonsini, a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati corporate lawyer and a former member of Brocade's board.
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