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October 22, 2012 |

Could Microsoft Win the Tablet Wars?

6 minute read
March 07, 2012 |

Apportionment of fault argued

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a much-anticipated argument in a challenge to the part of the 2005 tort reform package that requires juries to apportion liability in civil cases among all who may have harmed the plaintiffs.The court weighed whether the apportionment rule should apply to premises liability suits, in which, for example, a robbery victim claims the owner of the property where the crime took place was negligent.
6 minute read
January 15, 2013 |

War of the words: pleaded vs. pled

As lawyers, we get to debate some of the most pressing questions of our time: The limits of Congress's commerce power. The reach of the Due Process Clause. "Pleaded" versus "pled."
4 minute read
October 14, 2011 |

Preventing (and Recovering From) Courtroom Snafus

None of the news reports about the Roger Clemens perjury trial mentioned anything about failed technology.
11 minute read
December 05, 2005 |

Announcement of Vacancies on Criminal Justice Act Panel

Notice to the bar.
3 minute read
September 01, 2006 |

Cry the beloved CEOs and their 2.2 percent pay raises

IT'S TIME TO SHED A TEAR for those bloated, overpaid chief executive officers I often beat up on. Shocking as it may seem, over the past four years the total pay of U.S. CEOs has risen just 2.2 percent annually. That isn't much different from the paltry raises they give their employees. I reached th is conclusion after I did a study of 688 CEOs, all of whom had held their job for the years 2001 through 2005.
4 minute read
October 30, 2009 |

Lerach, Weiss Pass the Halfway Point

William Lerach and his partner in crime get to serve out their prison terms in halfway houses, thanks to a law signed last year.
4 minute read
July 23, 2012 |

Winners All Around: Pro Bono Hours Rise Despite Fewer Lawyers at Large Firms in Texas

Despite having fewer average full-time equivalent lawyers in 2011 compared to 2010, the 18 firms sharing pro bono information for their Texas lawyers donated more hours than the previous year. Sylvia Mayer is chairwoman of the pro bono committee at Weil, Gotshal's Houston office.
11 minute read
July 21, 2006 |

Stealing ideas

Stephen Terrell isn't a copyright lawyer. But last month, he filed suit on behalf of four Californians who allege that Fox Broadcasting Co. stole their idea behind the hit reality television show, So You Think You Can Dance. Emboldened by the 2004 Grosso v. Miramax Film Corp., plaintiff's lawyers are filing more idea submission claims.
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The Global Lawyer: Did Conoco Hit a Gusher in Venezuela?
Publication Date: 2013-09-18
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Conoco is due billions after arbitrators found Venezuela liable for a 2007 expropriation. Can Venezuela roll the award back? What did Conoco do right that Exxon did wrong?

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