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August 29, 2002 | Law.com

Common Sense for Uncommon Times

After the Andersen verdict and corporate governance reforms, in-house lawyers' work may never be the same again. How should corporate counsel adapt? Should they look over their shoulders and mull over how the advice they give will play in the press? Corporate Counsel asked three legal experts to weigh in with their thoughts and advice.
11 minute read
June 01, 2004 | Law.com

Uncompromising Friendship

Delaware judges have finally found some corporate directors they consider to be truly independent. In April the state's supreme court ruled that a majority of directors at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. were independent, even though they had personal ties to Stewart. As a result, the court said that a derivative suit filed by one of the company's shareholders could not proceed.
3 minute read
February 02, 2004 | Law.com

Flagging Responses

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June 14, 1999 | Law.com

Associates: Women in Skirts, Men in Dockers

A recent National Law Journal survey of lawyers' dress shows a surprisingly high penetration of casual Fridays, approaching 90%. [NLJ, May 31.] Yet a survey, by definition, ignores nuances. Interviews following up on the dress survey turned up two big nuances. First, women have not yet won yesterday's battle over business attire. Second, men are scared of casual wear.
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August 19, 2009 | National Law Journal

Insurance litigator Oshinsky jumps ship again, to Jenner & Block

Veteran insurance coverage litigator Jerold Oshinsky, a former name partner of Washington's Dickstein Shapiro, has joined Jenner & Block's Los Angeles office just 10 months after teaming with colleague Scott Gilbert to launch a Southern California office for their firm. Oshinsky, who represents policyholders in various industries, said he left Gilbert Oshinsky to join a firm with a bigger national presence.
4 minute read
August 19, 2009 | Daily Report Online

The high price of 'Cheap'

Have you ever wondered how a pair of jeans can cost $14 or why you can buy a pound of California peaches for 99 cents in Georgia Ellen Ruppel Shell's "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" tells the story behind the low, low price-and explains the cost of all that cheap stuff. The irony, Shell says, is that some of the biggest consumers of cheap are those who can least afford it.
4 minute read
May 13, 2005 | Law.com

Three Faces of 'Daubert'

Practitioners often refer to mounting "a Daubert attack" -- as if there were only one type of attack you can make as the litigant opposing the introduction of expert testimony. In truth, writes professor Edward J. Imwinkelried, there are three different arguments that you can press. Litigants, he says, should not always treat Daubert as a threshold or target that they must meet. As highlighted in a footnote to the landmark case itself, they sometimes have other options.
9 minute read
June 27, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Justices Find Prop. 8 Proponents Lack Standing to Appeal Gay Marriage Ruling

A calculated, and once criticized, legal strategy to move the issue of gay marriage quickly to the U.S. Supreme Court culminated in victory on Wednesday as the justices effectively cleared the way for same-sex marriages in California.
7 minute read
September 02, 2013 | National Law Journal

Attention Facebook Users: Post at Your Own Peril

They may seem harmless at the time, but impromptu comments and photos can lead to big trouble.
8 minute read
May 01, 1999 | Law.com

Killing Me Softly

Greg Aharonian is the patent community's angry middle-aged man. Every few days, he publishes the Internet Patent News Service, a free e-mail bulletin. Aharonian thinks that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is incapable of knowing what is truly inventive in software. So it issues way too many bad, overly broad software patents. And these patents -- more than 20,000 a year -- threaten to disrupt commerce by blocking competitors from promising markets.
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