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June 05, 2009 | The Recorder

Business Methods Need Patents

Supreme Court should acknowledge our tech-based economy and reverse Bilski.
6 minute read
September 25, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Reconnecting Law Firm Pricing to Cost, Profit, and Value

From in-house veteran Susan Hackett, the first of a two-part discussion of the emerging role, responsibilities, and rising influence of pricing directors in law firms.
17 minute read
June 04, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Officers Of Defunct First NLC Settle For $2.7 Million

A $2.7 million settlement with officers of the collapsed supbrime mortgage lender First NLC represents the last of several large settlements secured by the bankruptcy trustee.
6 minute read
March 16, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, analyzes recent rulings, including the latest developments in the challenge to the massive Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, and another on the civil rights obligations of co-op boards and their members.
19 minute read
September 30, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Next MegaFirm?: Akin Gump, Orrick Explore Merger

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld confirmed yesterday that they are engaged in talks to combine into what could create a more than 1,800-lawyer firm.
4 minute read
August 16, 2012 | National Law Journal

Federal Circuit says it again: Human genes can be patented

In a closely watched case with huge repercussions for the biotechnology industry, a federal appeals court has held for the second time that isolated human genes are patent-eligible.
7 minute read
December 01, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Family Courthouse Bid Meeting Draws Crowd of Contractors

More than 100 prospective contractors showed up Tuesday for an informational meeting on constructing a unified Philadelphia family courthouse, which officials from Pennsylvania's governmental developer said was a promising sign for the future of the project.
5 minute read
November 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Acquisition With Steep Price Hike Survives FTC Challenge

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, reviews recent developments, including a rejected challenge to the acquisition of a newly developed drug by a company that owned a well-established drug used to treat the same condition because the court found that the two drugs were not in the same relevant market.
11 minute read
November 05, 2008 | National Law Journal

An attorney looks back at defending Detroit's ex-mayor — and the 'privilege' of standing up for an unpopular client

Jim Thomas represented former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was recently sentenced to 120 days in jail and fined $1 million for lying about an affair during a police whistleblower trial that cost the city $8.4 million. Thomas, of counsel to the Detroit office of Plunkett Cooney, was part of a group of top-drawer attorneys to represent Kilpatrick in his nine-month ordeal. Thomas talked with us about the legal rollercoaster ride.
5 minute read
June 22, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Attorney Participation in Family Court Hearings in Absence of Clients

Chris Gottlieb, co-director of the NYU School of Law Family Defense Clinic, and Holly Beck, staff attorney with The Bronx Defenders, write that when a court conducts a hearing in the absence of a defending party, an attorney who appears for that party may face a dilemma: whether to participate in the hearing, and thereby waive the client's right to move based on excusable non-appearance to vacate a finding and re-open the hearing, or not participate and thereby forgo the opportunity to challenge the petitioner's case.
13 minute read

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