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August 07, 2007 | Law.com

Giving Something Back While Representing NYC

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks convinced Michael A. Cardozo, then a co-chairman of New York-based Proskauer Rose's litigation department, to contribute more to the city in which he was born and spent much of his life. "This is my absolute dream job," Cardozo says. "You can stand up in court and say, 'I represent the city of New York' -- there's a lot of meaning behind that. That's a powerful statement. It's very satisfying."
6 minute read
June 30, 2000 | Law.com

Government Liability Upheld

Businesses engaging in commercial transactions with the federal government have long fretted over how the government will act and be treated like any other litigant during disputes involving contractual issues. The Supreme Court's decision in a $158 million breach-of-contract suit brought by two oil companies against the federal government should ease businesses' concerns.
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June 11, 2004 | Law.com

Pitching the Gen X Jury

The august trial lawyer's long-winded, eloquent opening statement may be going the way of the dodo. That's because the audience -- the jury -- keeps getting younger. Raised on video games and cable TV, 20- and 30-somethings want succinct statements and multimedia storytelling. So profound are the shift's implications that five law schools have developed new curricula in response. One expert calls the new reality "the third revolution of jury trial advocacy."
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September 26, 2000 | Law.com

Score One for Microsoft

Score Round 1 of the United States v. Microsoft Corp. appeal to the defendant. With the Supreme Court on Tuesday turning away from the government's highest-profile antitrust suit, Microsoft will get its argument before the bench it likes best: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. And the next round, the final Supreme Court ruling, will likely be sooner rather than later.
4 minute read
March 03, 2005 | Law.com

Appeals Court Grants Microsoft New Patent Trial

Microsoft Corp. has been given another chance to prove it did not infringe a University of California patent covering Web browser technology and thereby sidestep a $521 million jury verdict. The decision sends the closely watched case back to U.S. district court in Chicago for a new trial on the validity of the Eolas patent.
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June 28, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. Gov't Not Required to Disburse $1.6 Bil. in Unclaimed Bonds to States

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a district court's holding that the U.S. Treasury is not obligated to dispense $1.6 billion worth of unclaimed bonds to the states in which their owners live.
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July 15, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pay Up, You Bratz!: BigLaw Firm Sues Dollmaker More Than $10,000,000 in Fees

O'Melveny & Myers has filed suit against MGA Entertainment seeking payment of $10.2 million in unpaid legal fees related to the company's long-running legal dispute with Mattel over ownership of the popular Bratz line of fashion dolls.
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April 01, 2002 | New York Law Journal

BOOK REVIEW - Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation

I n recent years computers have made possible almost unimaginable advances in fields from medicine to communications and from aviation to defense. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has credited the unparalleled economic expansion of the 1990s and our recent economic recovery to increased productivity also made possible by computers. However, as with any technological advance there is dark side and this is equally true with the computer revolution. Computers can be used and have been use
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April 25, 2005 | Law.com

Andersen's Paper Jam

It began with an e-mail that any in-house counsel could have written: a reminder to colleagues about the company's document retention policy. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the meaning of the law under which the Arthur Andersen accounting firm was prosecuted -- a case that has sent shudders through corporate legal departments nationwide. Says one legal ethics expert: "It's too late for Arthur Andersen. You can't put the egg back together. But this is a huge case for lawyers."
9 minute read
August 29, 2002 | Law.com

In Lyon Hunt, IP Litigators Are the Biggest Game

Law firms are lining up to hire intellectual property litigators, seeing their practices as both lucrative and recession-proof. Need evidence? Check out how hot IP litigators at Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon became after the firm announced Aug. 9 that it plans to dissolve. Several major firms have courted (and landed) Lyon's IP refugees, and there's still a race on for a large part of the firm's IP group in Irvine, Calif.
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