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August 05, 2013 |

Hot Startups Tap Google's Legal Talent

The general counsel at Pinterest, Twitter, Square and Dropbox are all alumni of Google's massive legal department. So too is the first head of the PTO's new Silicon Valley branch and the White House pick to oversee privacy issues
6 minute read
December 23, 2009 |

Trekkie's Suit Against Auction House Fails to Live Long, Prosper

A "Star Trek" fan who claims he was humiliated after spending more than $24,000 on fake props at an auction has had his $7 million suit against Christie's auction house zapped by an appellate court. Among the items was a visor the fan believed was worn by an android character played by Brent Spiner. When Spiner was asked to autograph the item at a convention, the actor allegedly told the fan it wasn't real and warned others not to buy fake memorabilia "like the guy who paid 12 Grand for a phony visor from Christie's."
4 minute read
June 13, 2007 |

In The Trenches: Hunton snags Smith Gambrell IP partners

HUNTON WILLIAMS HAS snagged two intellectual property partners, Robert H. G. Lockwood and Eric J. Hanson, from Smith, Gambrell Russell as part of a push to expand its Atlanta intellectual property team.Meanwhile, Smith Gambrell has recruited patent prosecutors Laurence P. Colton as a partner and Nigamnarayan Acharya as an associate from Powell Goldstein, which boosts Smith Gambrell's IP contingent to 25.
5 minute read
October 20, 2003 |

Justice Scalia Bows Out of Pledge Case

Tony [email protected] Mayor Bill Beck of Fredericksburg, Va., remembers most about the outdoor Religious Freedom Day ceremony last Jan. 12 was the temperature. "It was cold as blue blazes."But Beck also vividly remembers being surprised at Justice Antonin Scalia's blunt criticism of how the courts and society have handled church-state issues in recent years.
9 minute read
August 16, 2007 |

Battle Brewing Over Identity of Bloggers

The late April postings on a blog for Southern Connecticut State University adjunct faculty started out as general grousing about salaries. But when posts about administrators who got hefty pay raises turned nasty, the stage was set for litigation. The administrators' attorney has filed a bill of discovery against Google, which hosts the SCSU blog, as one step toward a planned defamation suit. The case is just the latest challenging what bloggers can say and whether they must forfeit their anonymity.
6 minute read
May 08, 2001 |

Cyber-Risk

MP3.com recently agreed to pay $130 million to settle claims that the online music company violated copyright laws. MP3.com then turned to Westport Insurance Co., which had written MP3.com a $5 million excess liability policy. But the insurer responded by filing a declaratory relief action. Now attorneys point to Westport v. MP3.com as heralding a new wave of insurance coverage litigation.
5 minute read
May 09, 2012 |

10 years later, a mass appeal

Appellate practitioner Howard Bashman was largely unknown outside Philadelphia when he decided to take the plunge into law blogging in May 2002. Twenty million page views and 10 years later, his blog How Appealing has made Bashman something of a nationwide rock star in the usually staid field of appellate law.
11 minute read
October 17, 2012 |

U.S. Museums Concerned About Unartful Impact of SCOTUS Copyright Case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a copyright case later this month that could have serious unintended consequences for the nation's art museums.
5 minute read
December 28, 2012 |

Nonprofit tech innovators inspire new philanthropy

Experts say there is a growing trend in venture philanthropy from funders who see technology as an instrument for social change.
6 minute read

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