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New Patent Exchange Hopes to Be Nasdaq for IP
Publication Date: 2013-06-05
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The IPXI has signed on 18 founding members, including Hewlett-Packard and Sony, which have committed to list patents on the exchange. It also features a roster of law firms, including DLA Piper and Sullivan & Cromwell, which are eligible for committee membership and have access to offering information.

June 01, 2006 | Law.com

At 94, Attorney David Ginsburg Looks Back at a Life Less Ordinary

David Ginsburg has pushed the buttons of presidents, Supreme Court justices, clients and peers. During his 70-year career, he's worked in the White House during the Great Depression, helped shape the rhetoric of the civil rights era and built a 74-lawyer law firm. Now, at age 94 and putting in 40-hour workweeks as of counsel at Powell Goldstein in Washington, D.C., Ginsburg shares his thoughts on the demise of general practice firms, the importance of writing skills and his affection for midsize firms.
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April 22, 2004 | Law.com

Low Visibility

Facing acute competition, law firms are revising their business models and slowly migrating toward collaborative cultures. Today's bottom line dictates that firms cannot stay competitive if they don't attract and keep the best management talent. Monica Bay recently challenged firms to showcase that talent by prominently displaying executive team contact information on their Web sites and ensuring that search engines find those names.
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February 02, 2005 | Law.com

Double Agent

In this new era of corporate criminal investigations, fundamental shifts are taking place in the corporate defense practice. While working to uncover wrongdoing, the investigating lawyer used to present a united front on behalf of both the corporation and its employees. The lawyer jousted with the government and sought to limit the flow of information. Today, the investigating lawyer essentially acts as a fact-finder with a badge -- the newest (and highest-paid) government agent.
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April 07, 2005 | Law.com

Chevron Deal Another Mega-Merger With Mega Money

What's $16.4 billion to Terry Kee? Over the course of 26 years representing ChevronTexaco, the Pillsbury Winthrop partner has grown accustomed to monstrous mergers. So working on Chevron's acquisition of fellow oil giant Unocal Corp. was old hat -- even if it was a ten gallon. Lawyers at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary got to participate in a celebrity wedding of sorts when they represented Emmy winner Pinnacle Systems Inc. in its sale to Oscar winner Avid Technology Inc. for $462 million.
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January 03, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Taxing of Telecommuters Before State's High Court

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April 09, 2007 | Law.com

Lessons From a Large-Firm Partner Who Set Up His Own Shop

Many partners in large firms dream of chucking it all and setting up their own practice. However, many also fear that they need their firm's name recognition and resources. Mark Zimmett took the plunge more than 15 years ago, leaving Shearman & Sterling to hang his own shingle in New York. And he's lived to tell his tale. Zimmett says that with today's advances in legal technology and his donning of many hats, his four-attorney firm is able to take on the cases many associate with big firms.
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September 21, 2007 | Law.com

U.S. Firms in London Say They're More Merger-Minded

Legal Week's annual survey of U.S. firms in London reveals that 47 percent of respondents would consider a merger with a U.K. firm, up from 39 percent last year and just 29 percent in 2005. The trend may signal that firms realize how hard it is to grow organically in the London legal market, which by some measures is now the most costly in which to operate worldwide. Putting additional pressure on U.S. firms: the weak dollar and the related disadvantage in attracting heavy-hitting London partners.
12 minute read
July 19, 2011 | Legaltech News

How Am Law 100 Firms Use Twitter

Adrian Dayton writes that there was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse. In January, the Time Blawg blog noted that many of the largest U.K. firms had never sent a single tweet, and Dayton saw a similar trend in the U.S., in December. How have things changed since then?
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July 20, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Tweet Surrender

There was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse, but that seems to be changing, at least for some firms. Most of the firms on the AmLaw 100 have Twitter accounts - 78% have at least one firm account. But what do they do with it?
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