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March 27, 2008 | National Law Journal

Parody of Wal-Mart trumps its trademark

Computer store owner Charles Smith has won a two-year legal battle with Wal-Mart, which has demanded he stop making and selling T-shirts and other items with slogans such as "Wal-ocaust" and "Wal-Qaeda." U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. found that Smith's products qualified as protected noncommercial speech because his goal was to criticize Wal-Mart, not to make a profit from his products. The judge noted that Smith had sold only 62 T-shirts, including 15 to one of Wal-Mart's outside law firms.
8 minute read
June 30, 2005 | Legaltech News

Patently Odd Web Sites

Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. Sometimes, however, invention appears to come first. How else do you explain U.S. patent 3984595, an inflatable rug? Or U.S. patent 05356330, an apparatus for simulating a "high five?" The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has given its blessing to all manner of bizarre ideas. Here's a look at Web sites that track wacky patents.
5 minute read
May 10, 2006 | National Law Journal

Law Firms in Hurricane Zone Draw on Hard-Won Lessons

With the 2006 hurricane season fast-approaching, law firms in the target zone are gearing up for what could be a ferocious few months, setting up off-site recovery centers to protect e-mail, accounting systems and access to data. Before the Sept. 11 terror attacks and last year's hurricanes, says one attorney and consultant, "you had these bedrock assumptions that at least your building would still be there." Firms should expect to spend up to 10 percent of their annual budgets on disaster plans, he says.
6 minute read
May 11, 2010 | New York Law Journal

New Law Allows Victims' Addresses to Be Withheld on Voter Forms

5 minute read
April 15, 2011 | The Recorder

A Bench Divided

The state's judges are on the warpath. Can the California Judges Association find them common ground?
7 minute read
May 27, 2003 | Law.com

David Eagleson, 78, Spent 4 Years on High Court

Former California Supreme Court Justice David Eagleson died Friday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He was 78.
2 minute read
December 09, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

Government Misconduct in FCPA Prosecution May Impact Other Cases

A federal judge's dismissal of convictions in a high-profile FCPA case due to prosecutorial misconduct has prompted a defense attorney in a related prosecution to challenge the government's case against his client.
6 minute read
April 11, 2012 | New Jersey Law Journal

Public Access Redux

New proposed rules concerning public access to the state's tidal waterways.
7 minute read
October 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Gutman v. Klein

Free With Registration: Judge Follows Circuit in Fee Award But Expresses Dissatisfaction With 'Geographic Lodestar' Model
8 minute read
March 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Public Not Primary Beneficiary of Proposed Road, Judge Rules

A Pennsylvania man has failed to show that the public at large is the "primary and paramount beneficiary" of his request to build a private road on his neighbor's land that leads to his two landlocked parcels, an Allegheny County judge has ruled.
7 minute read

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