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Report: Law Firms Losing Edge in Office Space Race
In the latest edition of its annual analysis of law firm real estate trends, real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle finds landlords routinely getting the upper hand in lease negotiations for the first time in seven years. At the same time, firms have been able to maintain an advantage in some major markets, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.Biotech Industry Watching Merck Patent Case Closely
A different kind of "drug war" will play out this month in the U.S. Supreme Court in a potentially landmark patent challenge with huge implications for the role of the biomedical and biotechnology industries in the development of new drugs. Merck KGAA v. Integra LifeSciences case basically asks the justices to determine how far down the chain of research and experimentation into new drugs does a federal safe harbor statute reach to protect drug manufacturers from liability for patent infringement.What pessimism? Chicago embraces the future
What's in store for the practice of law in the Midwest during 2012? We invited the people running four of the largest law offices in Chicago to provide their forecasts during a panel discussion in April.Lapse in Tax Law May Have Estate Lawyers Hustling for Nothing
The year has started with a rush for trusts and estates lawyers, who are scrambling to field calls from clients worried about how a one-year lapse in the federal estate tax affects their legal documents. The situation is "a very real mess, which leaves millions of Americans unnecessarily at risk," says one lawyer for a Chicago-based boutique. A Morgan Lewis partner laments that some clients will end up rearranging their plans only to have those changes become obsolete or prove needless if Congress acts this year.Patent Attorney Demand From Law Firms Increases After Legislative Overhaul
Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15 percent of law firm job openings while representing just 3 percent of U.S. lawyers. Some law firms are almost doubling recruitment fees to meet the growing demand for intellectual property specialists, particularly in the technology sector, said T.Trending Stories
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