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By ROSS TODD | July 18, 2017
Judicial retweets ≠ endorsements. That, in essence, is what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Thursday in the first federal appellate court decision to address issues raised when jurists post to social media about cases that come before them.
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By BRIAN BAXTER | July 18, 2017
Struggling retail chains shopping for law lawyers in what might well become the year of the retail bankruptcy saw several of their ailing brethren dip into the Big Law ranks this month for a trio of Chapter 11 cases.
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By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | July 18, 2017
The news that a Verizon Communications vendor exposed millions of customer records highlights the serious risks related to trusting third-party vendors with company data.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 18, 2017
Julie Negovan joined Griesing Law's ADR and commercial litigation practice group as of counsel.
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By Meghan Tribe | July 18, 2017
On the heels of a bombshell report by BuzzFeed that he runs a “sex cult,” R&B icon R. Kelly has retained a longtime lawyer to deny the shocking allegations. That attorney, Chicago's Linda Mensch, joined her current firm last year after leaving Bryan Cave in the aftermath of a suit filed against her, the firm and her star client.
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By Roy Strom | July 18, 2017
Kim Severson, a trusts and estates partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis and head of the firm's nonprofit foundation, has been tapped to serve as chair of its policy committee. Severson is the first woman to hold the firm in the firm's 105-year history.
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By Vivia Chen, The Careerist | July 18, 2017
I try to keep it light and frothy during the heat of the summer. So here's my selection of news and gossip that you shouldn't miss.
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By Jonathan Ringel | July 18, 2017
The legal backstory to an auction of a cloth bag containing lunar dust from the Apollo 11 mission, which fetched $1.8 million on Thursday, "is a pretty cool case," said the lawyer who won it.
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By Scott Flaherty | July 18, 2017
Fish & Richardson and client Gilead Sciences Inc. are slated to receive nearly $14 million in legal fees after exposing patent misconduct by Merck & Co. Inc. that helped Gilead shake off a $200 million infringement verdict.
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By Howard J. Bashman | July 18, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court's recently concluded 2016-2017 term will most likely be remembered as the term in which the court largely avoided the limelight as it awaited the arrival of a ninth justice, who joined the court only in time for its final two-week oral argument session. Although the court did decide some high-profile cases, there were far fewer than in recent terms. That could be about to change, however, now that the court has returned to full strength.
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