NEXT
Sign in to follow
Search Results

0 results for 'Jones Day'

You can use to get even better search results
November 24, 2003 | Law.com

Will the Justices Bite the Bullet?

The U.S. Supreme Court has long refrained from examining the real meaning of the Second Amendment's promise of the right to "keep and bear arms." Now, gun rights advocates hope the Court will grant review in Silveira v. Lockyer, a challenge to California's assault weapon ban. The case asks the Court to reverse a 9th Circuit ruling, in which Judge Stephen Reinhardt found the amendment "does not establish an individual right to own or possess firearms for personal or other use."
8 minute read
November 29, 2004 | Law.com

Patents Take to the Big Screen

In 2002, a small San Jose, Calif., technology company, Immersion Corp., filed a suit against giants of the gaming industry, claiming infringements of two patents that it says were improperly used in the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox gaming consoles. Immersion holds 240 patents in the field of haptics -- the science of touch. Find out how trial presentation technology played into the jury's verdict.
7 minute read
November 27, 2000 | Law.com

Lights, Camera ... Oyez

Hollywood always breaks out its big guns in December, but this time the question is not which movies, but rather which lawsuits, will be winners? Our end-of-the-year legal preview includes a fight over the rights to the "X-Men," a sequel to that family fave, the MP3.com copyright suit, and a brawl between the two promoters of fighter Oscar De La Hoya.
5 minute read
July 28, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

NEWS

Jury May Not Decide Venue in Homicide Case
11 minute read
January 14, 2005 | Law.com

Some Texas Associates Find 2004 to Be a Very Good Year

A number of large Texas law firms have distributed or plan to distribute discretionary associate bonuses for 2004 that far exceed -- in some cases by more than double -- the bonuses paid in 2003, according to a survey of the 25 largest firms in Texas. Some firms are paying higher bonuses due to higher revenues; others are competing with the bonus amounts distributed in the New York market.
7 minute read
February 04, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Power Player: GC Does Deals Over Decades, Both as a Lawyer and a Businessman

Keith Head knows energy deals from beginning to end. As vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Harvest Natural Resources Inc. in Houston, he's been on the front end of deals identifying and valuing potential acquisitions.
10 minute read
August 24, 2007 | Law.com

Shareholders Sue Over Alleged Backdating by Citrix Systems Execs

A recent flurry of lawsuits by shareholders of Citrix Systems in federal court in Florida alleges that 17 current and former Citrix executives, directors and members of the compensation committee unjustly enriched themselves at the expense of shareholders by receiving stock options at backdated prices. The lawsuits follow the company's disclosures earlier this year to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was looking into its stock options granting practices for its executives.
7 minute read
June 06, 2012 | Law.com

The Bankruptcy Files: Much Ado About Fees, as MF Global Trustees Deliver Reports

Against the backdrop of a rare public meeting on the subject of large legal fees in big corporate bankruptcies, Hughes Hubbard & Reed corporate reorganization and bankruptcy group chair James Giddens and former FBI director Louis Freeh of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan submitted their reports as trustees advocating for dueling interests in the Chapter 11 case of MF Global. Meanwhile, firms like McCarter & English and Willkie Farr & Gallagher landed roles on the latest round of notable bankruptcy filings.
7 minute read
June 06, 2007 | New York Law Journal

New York Court of Appeals Roundup

Roy L. Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry, partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, discuss recent decisions of the Court, in which it held that counsel may conduct an ex parte interview of an adversary's former employee, reaffirmed the high standard for punitive damages, and upheld the well-settled principle that partners are free to fix their rights by agreement and that the Court will not imply provisions of N.Y. Partnership Law into the contract to override terms to which the parties had agreed.
11 minute read
August 31, 2001 | Law.com

The Whitecoats Are Coming

10 minute read

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

Resources