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August 29, 2006 | Law.com

Soccer Fans Forced to Go Pantsless to Protect FIFA's Sponsors

FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, is notorious for its strict trademark enforcement. Advertising at international soccer tournaments is big business, with the price of the "official World Cup partner" title approaching 40 million euros. But after forcing 1,000 fans at a World Cup game to remove pants promoting a beer that was not an official sponsor, FIFA and its battle against ambush marketing entered the theater of the absurd. Is FIFA crazy like a fox, or just plain crazy?
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In a Rare Bit of Good Legal News for LCD Defendants, San Francisco Judge Dismisses Trio of Price-Fixing Suits by Mobile Device Makers
Publication Date: 2010-06-30
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Susan Illston, the same judge who's overseeing the gigantic antitrust class actions against liquid crystal display makers, has tossed price-fixing complaints by Nokia, Motorola, and AT&T.

Toyota Update: MDL Judge Rules Personal Injury Suits Can Proceed, Orders Both Sides to Pick Bellwether Cases for Trial
Publication Date: 2010-12-09
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Judge James Selna seems to be eager to get rolling in the Toyota sudden unexpected acceleration cases, ordering Toyota and the plaintiffs to pick a bellwether case in the next four months.

March 07, 2003 | Law.com

BellSouth, Sprint Litigate Over Exec

BellSouth executive Gary D. Forsee's attempt to leave his post for a CEO position at Sprint has resulted in two lawsuits in Fulton Superior Court, an appeal that's now before the Georgia Supreme Court and an ongoing arbitration before former CIA and FBI chief William H. Webster. The claims: Forsee can't help but breach his duty of confidentiality and his promise not to compete with BellSouth if he joins Sprint.
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March 27, 2009 | The American Lawyer

Corporate Scorecard 2009 Bankruptcy

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October 01, 2003 | Law.com

From Akin Gump to Kramer Levin

Letters A through K in the firm-by-firm summary of the responses to The American Lawyer's 2003 Associate Survey.
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Gregory Arovas and Robert Krupka of Kirkland & Ellis
Publication Date: 2011-07-21
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The Kirkland team gained important ground for Apple in the escalating smartphone patent wars when they convinced an ITC judge that HTC had infringed two of their client's patents.

October 03, 2007 | Law.com

U.S. Carbon-Trading Market Would Profoundly Impact Law and Lawyers

Right now, several bills quietly wending their way through Congress have the potential to change just about everything in the U.S., from how we run our businesses to how we run our lives. But for most people, those proposals are as invisible as the substance they seek to regulate: carbon dioxide. Modeled on Europe's carbon cap-and-trade system, the bills foreshadow a new regulatory system that could have as profund an effect on the law, and what lawyers do, as the Superfund program or the Clean Air Act.
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April 25, 2007 | Daily Report Online

In The Trenches: Boutique's founders hop to Troutman

TROUTMAN SANDERS HAS lured two local litigators, Daryll Love and Allen S.C. Willingham, from the Atlanta boutique they founded almost 20 years ago. In Washington, Troutman has snagged Kaye Scholer's international trade practice.In Atlanta, Willingham, 54, is joining Troutman as a partner and Love, 65, is joining as of counsel.
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April 07, 2000 | Law.com

Emory, UGA, Georgia State Climb but Deans Still Down on Rankings

Ty Ross says he doesn't even remember where Georgia State University's law school ranked in last year's U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools edition.
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