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Associate's IP Blog Is Patently Good Publicity
Dennis Crouch's IP blog, Patently-O, has won him thousands of fans, a book deal and speaking engagements galore -- but few may realize he's a third-year associate. Crouch spends about an hour a day blogging about patent law, on top of his day job at Chicago's McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. But the firm cuts him some slack for last year billing about 1,900 hours -- slightly under the firm's average -- because the blog has also landed McDonnell Boehnen new clients.Justice Deferred: DOJ Gets Companies to Turn Snitch
The Justice Department is making greater use of deferred prosecutions � formally endorsed by Larry Thompson when he was deputy attorney general � as a way of getting companies to clean up their acts without being forced out of business.Erosion of Reporter Privilege in Texas Case Troubles Legal Observers
The incarceration of a writer in Houston because she won't give federal prosecutors notes from her research of a 1997 murder is raising heated debate in legal circles. One observer says the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been narrowing the concept of reporter's privilege over time. Another worries whether Vanessa Leggett's case indicates law enforcement is trying to use journalists' research as "a shortcut."Preservation Helps Companies Prevail in Court
The first piece of advice for any corporation staring down the barrel of a white-collar criminal investigation or indictment is to make sure to preserve the evidence in its original form. Save the memos and the e-mails, preserve the hard drives and turn off the shredder. It's an approach that's quite anti-Nixonian. But it just might help your client survive longer than Nixon did.Corporate liability key in Chevron case
An epic legal battle going to trial in federal court in San Francisco next week, will ask jurors to decide whether oil giant Chevron Corp. sanctioned human rights abuses that killed and wounded protesters at its Nigerian facilities, or was simply protecting its employees from belligerent kidnappers.Decision in Patent Case Could Reverse 20 Years of Precedent
Knorr-Bremse v. Dana Corp., scheduled to be heard by the Federal Circuit on Thursday, could be the catalyst for overturning 20 years of case law. The question at issue: May judges infer that a company willfully infringed a patent, if the company fails to produce a legal opinion showing it is not in violation of the patent? The case also raises tricky questions about whether corporations should be penalized for invoking attorney-client privilege.Preservation Helps Companies Prevail in Court
The first piece of advice then for any corporation staring down the barrel of a white-collar criminal investigation or indictment is to make certain to preserve the evidence in its original form. Save the memos and the e-mails, preserve the hard drives and turn off the shredder. Don’t listen to anyone who wants to get rid of something he perceives as damaging. Destroying materials almost always will lead to a much bigger problem.Trending Stories
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