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July 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

Alcohol bill means 'happy hour' for lobbyists

Trade associations and lobbyists for alcohol manufacturers are brawling with their wholesale distributors over a bill that would strengthen states' ability to regulate alcohol and make it harder to challenge state alcohol laws in court.
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October 18, 2007 | Law.com

SEC Tells Marvell, Exec to Expect Suits

The Securities and Exchange Commission has notified Marvell Technology and one of its top officers that it plans to sue over stock option backdating. The semiconductor maker has announced in SEC filings that it received a Wells notice -- a letter from the SEC announcing an intent to seek financial penalties -- for the company itself. Weili Dai, the ex-COO and current head of marketing and business development who was demoted this year after an internal investigation, also received one, the company said.
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September 26, 2001 | Law.com

Cuban American National Foundation Seeks to Block Use of Allegedly Pirated Name

Jorge Mas Santos' Cuban American National Foundation is throwing the federal tort book at former employee Mario B. Miranda Sr. for allegedly pirating its famous name. Miranda snatched the name last May after the CANF changed its legal name in state records to the Jorge Mas Canosa Freedom Foundation Inc. He's also sought to register the name as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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April 22, 2005 | Law.com

Contamination Suits Over Gasoline Additives May Proceed

A federal judge has refused to dismiss the bulk of cases filed against major oil companies for groundwater contamination caused by the gasoline additive known as MTBE. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin presented what she called the "commingled product theory," a modification of the theory of market share liability, for claims originating in three of the 15 states where cases were filed. The plaintiffs include cities, municipal corporations and water suppliers.
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If Latham & Watkins ekes out a win for its client in a hard-fought patent case over language translation technology, lead lawyer Douglas Lumish may have his opponent's expert to thank.

April 26, 2007 | Law.com

Scorecard Snapshots - 2007

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June 01, 2004 | The American Lawyer

Go Fish

t's already the longest Markman hearing on record, and it's only half over. On and off for nearly a year, a federal judge in San Diego has been listening to testimony about a group of patents owned by Lucent Technologies Inc. Lucent asserts that its patents cover video, speech, and audio technology embedded in the Windows operating system and that Microsoft Corporation and licensees like Dell Inc. and Gateway, Inc., infringe the patents. The Markman hearing-a forum in which the judge decides what the claims
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January 27, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Nonprofits on Alert

Top in-house lawyers at universities, foundations, health care organizations and other charitable organizations are rewriting corporate charters, redrafting conflict-of-interest policies and in some instances performing costly examinations of their internal controls.
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February 09, 2007 | Law.com

Holland & Knight Joins Wave of Law Firms Boosting Associate Salaries

In a move likely to trigger a fresh round of associate pay hikes, Holland & Knight has raised first-year associate salaries in its South Florida offices from $125,000 to $130,000. Holland also announced Thursday that it is boosting starting associate salaries in its other offices, including raises to $160,000 in New York City and $145,000 in its Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles outposts. Holland's move is the latest in a wave of associate salary increases that has swept the country.
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July 20, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Making patent cases simple for juries

FOR ALL OF THE HYPE these days over enormous jury verdicts-including the record $1.5 billion judgment against Microsoft Corp. in March-few juries ever decide a patent dispute. The huge stakes and the unpredictability of juries ensure that "most companies choke down some kind of a settlement or licensing deal," says veteran patent litigator Woody Jameson, a partner at Duane Morris in Atlanta.
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