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Corporate Counsel

Sony's Rootkit Creates a Legal Fiasco

As if Celine Dion's voice wasn't bad enough, one of her albums poses a major security threat to computer users. When inserted in a PC, the CD installs an insidious piece of software known as a rootkit--an application that hackers typically use to implant viruses and trojans on victims' computers....
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

United Uses Unique Strategy to Slash Pensions

United Airlines didn't intend to raise ire of nearly 20,000 flight attendants. But to successfully reorganize and pull itself out of the red, something had to give. And that something was their employees' pension plans, which the airline decided to cut. But cutting pension plans, especially plans under contract with...
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Court Upholds Unsigned Contracts

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a ruling that a 10-page letter to Gulfstream Aerospace sent to its employees that placed limits on employees' rights to sue the company is an enforceable contract. On July 15, 2005, Gulfstream Aerospace sent the letter to all of the...
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

LSAT Prep Firms at War

When aspiring law students paid nearly $1,100 for a month-long LSAT-prep course by TestMasters, they assumed the prestigious Santa Monica, Calif., company would help them score higher on the law school entry exam. However, several students soon discovered that they had mistakenly signed up for a class with Houston-based Test...
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

S.D. Rancher Loses Insurance Battle

When South Dakota rancher Perle O'Daniel discovered that hundreds of his cattle had been stolen, he assumed that his insurance company would cover the loss. However, on Nov. 1, 2005, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held the insurer had no liability. O'Daniel purchased an insurance policy from Minnesota-based NAU...
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Protecting Time

Supreme Court's decision in Alvarez leaves companies open to litigation.
25 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Competitive Oversight

European counsel use training and audits to keep Competition Commission at bay.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Lessons Learned

The five verdicts of 2005 that are reshaping corporate defense strategies.
14 minute read

Corporate Counsel

DOJ Intervenes in BlackBerry Patent Case

It's often said that necessity is the mother of invention. However, when the Department of Justice stepped into a high-stakes patent infringement dispute regarding the BlackBerry e-mail device, it suggested that sometimes, invention breeds necessity. On Nov. 8, 2005, the DOJ filed a "statement of interest" in the U.S. Court...
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Foretelling The Future

In the coming decade, legal departments will undergo a dramatic transformation. Smart GCs are preparing now.
13 minute read

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