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Anderson Retrial Unlikely as Government Increases Use of Alternatives to Indictment
In the government's aggressive and largely successful pursuit of corporate fraud in recent years, the conviction of Arthur Andersen was its first major, high-profile victory. A retrial after last week's stinging reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely, said a number of legal experts, and that will be a difficult pill for government prosecutors to swallow.Utilicorp Brings the Power Inside
Six years ago, energy provider UtiliCorp abolished its legal department in favor of outsourcing its corporate work to Kansas City, Mo.'s Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin. After a $5 billion international acquisition spree, the Missouri-based company has come full circle and hired the entire department -- its principal outside counsel dealmaker and six of his associates -- away from Blackwell Sanders.Lawyers See Lessons in Andersen Trial
Arthur Andersen's obstruction of justice trial shows that it's important for corporate insiders to think about how their conduct in risky situations will appear to the public -- not just whether it's technically legal. That's one of the lessons learned by several prominent lawyers interviewed about the accounting firm's trial, in which jurors focused on the acts not of the accountants but of an in-house attorney.Industry Fights Back Over N.J.'s Anti-Pollution Push
The business community goes to court over New Jersey's plan to squeeze up to $1 billion out of polluters for the loss of natural resources such as rivers and wildlife. Six trade associations, including those representing the chemical and petroleum industries, said in a suit in Mercer County that the process used in 4,000 claims is unfair and illegal in its "clandestine approach."Protecting Plant-Related Inventions
The increasing economic importance of plant-related innovations has spawned a myriad of mechanisms for protecting them, including utility patents, Plant Patent Act patents, plant variety protection and trade secret protection. Each of these mechanisms carries its own costs and benefits, and each has had a tremendous impact on the applied agricultural and agricultural biotechnology industries. This paper examines the pro's and con's of all the available options.Thomas Recalls His Ga. Job Search Woes
Jonathan [email protected] on the stage with Justice Clarence Thomas at Saturday's University of Georgia law school graduation were two class officers, one of whom is headed to work at King Spalding, the other to Alston Bird.Their success at landing jobs at big Atlanta firms contrasted notably with the introspective story Thomas told of his 1974 graduation from Yale Law School.Trending Stories
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