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July 11, 2011 |

How pro-business is Roberts Court?

It's become an annual ritual of the Roberts Court era: As soon as the U.S. Supreme Court recesses for the summer, the debate resumes over just how pro-business it really is.
3 minute read
April 04, 2008 |

Climate Work Heating Up at Law Firms

A growing number of major firms are creating a climate change brand, with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom being the latest -- this week it was scheduled to launch a 23-lawyer group specifically devoted to climate change issues. "The whole area is changing," says Kenneth Berlin, who will head the group. "The area is developing so quickly now that it now merits a practice area." But unlike other fleeting law firm trends -- remember those Y2K practices? -- there appears to be real work to be done here.
9 minute read
October 01, 2004 |

Reid Trautz

Director, Lawyer Practice Assistance Program, District of Columbia Bar
3 minute read
December 01, 2010 |

How Did BigLaw Firm Get Entangled With Jamaican Politics and a Drug Lord?

Responding to a libel suit filed by Jamaican lawyer Harold Brady, the island nation's prime minister claims that a former chairman of the Republican National Committee in this country steered Jamaican officials to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips for help in dealing with a delicate extradition request.
4 minute read
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October 03, 2013 |

HTC Loses Trial Over Chip Patent

A California jury ruled that the Taiwanese smartphone maker violated a microprocessor patent and awarded patent holders Technology Properties Limited and Patriot Scientific Corp. around $1 million in damages.
3 minute read
September 03, 2010 |

Class Action Firm Opens IP Contingency Fee Practice

Pennsylvania plaintiffs firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check has opened a patent litigation practice, to be run on a contingency basis, with two partners from Philadelphia-based intellectual property boutique Woodcock Washburn: Michael J. Bonella and Paul B. Milcetic. "I really think this is a model whose time has come," Milcetic says. He notes his clients never explicitly said they wanted to switch from hourly billing to contingency fees, but he got the message based on things like how marketing went.
5 minute read
June 26, 2006 |

State v. Dixon

When a court of appeals issues alternative rulings on the same issue, its decision will be affirmed if fewer than all alternative rulings are appealed.
2 minute read
February 23, 2001 |

INS Fails to See the Light

In 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service agreed to let outside lawyers hold meetings for new INS detainees to teach them about their rights under U.S. law. But at the INS detention center on Varick Street in Manhattan, advocates for immigrants have sought for 18 months to be allowed to make regular presentations to new arrivals on their rights as they face deportation. They're still trying.
8 minute read
April 28, 2003 |

The Unquiet Man

Judge Jim Wallace knows he has critics as well as supporters. "But since I continue to be elected, I must be doing something right," he says.
8 minute read

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