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June 28, 2010 | Law.com

N.Y. Jury Delivers First Plaintiff's Win in Fosamax Litigation

A New York jury has delivered the first plaintiff's verdict recorded in the multidistrict litigation over the anti-bone loss drug Fosamax, deciding Merck should pay $8 million for present and future pain and suffering to Shirley Boles, one of some 900 plaintiffs who filed suit in state and federal courts, alleging Fosamax caused jawbone deterioration. The case is one of the bellwether cases selected by the court in In Re: Fosamax Products Liability Litigation. The first bellwether ended in a defense verdict.
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July 30, 2012 | Law.com

DEA, V.A. bought spy software

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is under fire by Congress for monitoring the personal email accounts of agency scientists, but government-contract records show it's not the only agency that's taken steps to spy on its workers.
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November 19, 2007 | Law.com

University Patent Work on Upswing

Law firms are reporting a steady increase in university patenting activity, while university statistics reveal spikes in legal spending to protect inventions developed on campus. Universities, hospitals and research institutions filed 15,115 U.S. patent applications in 2005, compared with 13,803 in 2004, the latest figures available from the Association of University Technology Managers in Northbrook, Ill.
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November 24, 2003 | National Law Journal

The NLJ 250: Rankings 51-100

The country's 250 largest law firms grew by only 1.6% in the past year�the lowest rate since 1994. Yet more than half of them launched new practice groups during the past year. Also, mergers affected different law firms differently. This and more in the NLJ's annual survey of the nation's largest law firms.
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May 12, 2000 | Law.com

Who Gets To Appoint ALJs?

Are more than 1,000 federal administrative law judges violating the U.S. Constitution? The U.S. Supreme Court soon may get the opportunity to tackle that fundamental question in a case challenging the appointment of administrative law judges by the Office of Thrift Supervision, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department.
6 minute read
December 12, 2007 | Law.com

Mintz Levin Loses Bid to Up Diversity

In 2005, Mintz Levin unveiled a major initiative to enhance the firm's diversity, hiring 12 predominantly minority labor and employment attorneys in one fell swoop. Now, however, the attorneys have scattered to competing firms, leaving in their wake questions about how the much-touted group could fall apart in such a short period of time. Though D.C. managing partner Cherie Kiser says the group had the firm's "full support," some say Mintz Levin didn't put much emphasis on cross-selling its services.
8 minute read
July 16, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Credit crunch changes rules at law firms

Don't sue banks. It's a simple policy, and many firms that cater to the financial industry have long followed it. In return for declining the occasional case, top firms were rewarded with a steady stream of transactional, defense and regulatory work.But with the onset of the credit crunch last August, the financial rationale behind the rule began to falter.
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August 01, 2006 | Law.com

5th Circuit: Employment Status Change Nixes Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

In a case of first impression in the nation, the 5th Circuit found that a bankruptcy court can consider a debtor's changed employment status when deciding whether to dismiss a Chapter 7 petition. Attorneys say the circuit is moving away from the tradition of looking only at debtors' financial situations as of the day they filed their petitions in determining whether they qualify for debt relief. But the ultimate message may encourage debtors to stay unemployed until the bankruptcy is final.
7 minute read
October 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Alston & Bird's losses to DLA highlight firms' opposite places on spectrum

A FEW MONTHS AGO, William Cook found himself in India-New Delhi, to be exact-speaking with a manager for his firm's second-largest client. They were, thankfully, in an air-conditioned conference room, discussing an outsourcing program, and the very earnest manager wanted to know where the firm conducted its Indian business, because foreign lawyers can't yet set up shop in the country.
10 minute read
February 07, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Battles brew over discovery in patent cases

In the wake of the new patent reform law, discovery will be a significant addition to administrative proceedings that review the validity of issued patents. A medical device company's lawsuit against the patent office foreshadows likely fights about the scope of discovery in these proceedings, which are expected to spike under the new law.
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