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When Professional Life Spills Over Into Family Life
If attorneys aren't careful, the practice of law can quietly creep into the home. True, it takes strength to focus during domestic chats about algebra homework and dog bones and not mentally drift off to ponder legal strategy. But, as columnist Steve Malin reminds us, the truly successful lawyers are those who give their all at work without sacrificing the essential connection to their home lives.
Summer's Over and Partners are Moving to Greener Pastures
With the end of summer, several partners have packed up their files and moved to other firms. Two employment lawyers from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May jumped to Morrison & Foerster, while Cooley lost a patent prosecution partner to the Palo Alto office of Dorsey & Whitney. Outside the Bay Area, Orrick's New York office hired three partners away from Pennie & Edmonds while losing a Los Angeles partner to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.Federal Circuit Grants Microsoft New Patent Trial
Microsoft 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 Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that a lower court erred in preventing Microsoft from presenting evidence to a jury that could invalidate the patent, which UC licensed exclusively to Eolas Technologies. The decision sends the closely watched case back to U.S. district court for a new trial on the Eolas patent's validity.Small Firm Gets a Shot Before Supreme Court in Railroad Case
The small St. Louis firm Schlichter Bogard & Denton has quietly handled thousands of railroad worker injury cases over the course of its 17-year existence -- producing seven jury verdicts of at least $1.4 million in the past 18 months. Still, the last place anyone at the 12-attorney firm expected to be is precisely where they are scheduled to be today: in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing a case that could alter decades worth of railroad employee injury law.
In-House Counsel Profile: Aon PLC's Peter Lieb
The name is Gaelic and the global headquarters moved to London last year, but the roots of Aon PLC are all Chicago. Peter Lieb is based in London, supervising 145 lawyers in 25 countries.China's Merger Law Raises Concern
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