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Inadmissible: Burchfield's Surprising Move; Skadden, Arps No. 1; and More
After 23 years at Covington, rainmaker Bobby Burchfield jumps to McDermott, Will and lands in a leadership position; business as usual on day of national mourning; Skadden, Arps ranked No. 1 by corporations; new sentencing guidelines at D.C. Superior Court; and more.
Hunton & Williams snags two Smith Gambrell IP partners
Hunton & Williams has snagged two intellectual property partners, Robert H. G. Lockwood and Eric J. Hanson, from Smith, Gambrell & Russell as part of a push to expand its Atlanta intellectual property team. The addition of Lockwood and Hanson increases the number of IP lawyers in Hunton's Atlanta office to 11. The firm would like to double that number in the next year, said William M. Ragland Jr., the senior member of the group.
Package Your Message in a Mini-Web Site
Three years ago, law firm marketing consultants and Web designers were touting the benefits of mini-sites -- sites within a firm's main site -- as vehicles to drive attention to a core practice area. Blogs became the next big thing in law firm marketing, but mini-sites remain an effective means by which a firm can promote a key practice area. Lawyer, consultant and blogger Robert J. Ambrogi offers some good examples, as well as tips for using mini-sites to your firm's advantage.Digital copyright act needs rebooting
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 hasn't worked out the way consumers or copyright owners planned: It has neither stopped piracy nor preserved the long-established fair use of protected works, lawyers on both sides of the issue say.Courts Nationwide Tackle Fundamental Tech-Related Issues
The end of last year was relatively quiet for technology cases in New York's courts. Elsewhere, however, courts were at work on some fundamental issues, including file-sharing, password stealing and security circumvention. Attorney Stephen M. Kramarsky examines some interesting intellectual property cases from around the country that closed out 2005. Among them include MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. and BMG Music v. Gonzales .
The New China Syndrome: How to Litigate Tainted Chinese Imports Cases
"The China Syndrome," the title of a 1979 film, refers to a possible extreme result of a nuclear meltdown, but 28 years later, that same phrase can be applied to a new issue: imported Chinese tainted foodstuffs and defective consumer products. Attorney Daniel J. Herling writes that the "classic" product liability suit against Chinese manufacturers raises many issues for potential litigants, which include consumers and American companies in the "stream of commerce" of the products.