In This Issue - November 2012
Cover Story
Training for Trouble
Law schools nationwide are beginning to offer courses that prepare students for in-house careers—often by serving up real-life challenges.
Features
Ready or Not
Students are peppered with probing questions in Harvard's first class on GCs.
Eye of a Storm
A general counsel is vilified for defending her company's sex services ads.
The Real World
Editor's Note
Law Schools Offering More Courses for In-House Careers
Law schools nationwide are beginning to offer courses that prepare students for in-house careers—often by serving up real-life challenges.
In The News
Going Up
The number of patent infringement filings shot up by 22 percent in 2011 compared to the year before, reaching the highest level ever recorded.
Tables Turn at Hyperspeed
After winning a big infringement suit, Apple is accused of infringing.
Conventional Wisdom
More GCs seem to be going to those quadrennial political summer soirees.
Gut Check
A new SEC rule forces companies to plumb the sources of their products.
Sinking Against a Rising Tide
Residents of an Alaskan village threatened by an eroding coastline lost an appeal against some of the biggest oil producers in the world.
Stop, Hey What's That Sound?
The SEC's first whistle-blower payout is likely to lead to a veritable chorus.
Not Exactly a Gift
An appeals court overturned a penalty, but upheld the doctrine that debarred a GC.
Dirty Minerals and Sunshine
Sneaked into the Dodd-Frank Act are a pair of provisos that aim to harness the Securities and Exchange Commission's reporting requirements to promote corporate social responsibility and the rule of law.
The GC of Village Voice Media Walks a Legal Tightrope
A general counsel is vilified for defending her company's sex services ads.
Law Students Attend Harvard's First Class on GCs
Ben Heineman Jr., former general counsel of General Electric Company, is giving law students a window into the world of the general counsel.
On The Job
Law Students Attend Harvard's First Class on GCs
Ben Heineman Jr., former general counsel of General Electric Company, is giving law students a window into the world of the general counsel.
Law Schools Offering More Courses for In-House Careers
Law schools nationwide are beginning to offer courses that prepare students for in-house careers—often by serving up real-life challenges.
Moves
Profile: All-Weather Protection
George Callard | The Weather Channel Companies
Meat of the Matter, and Other Moves
For this top lawyer, there's more to life than just pound cake.
From The Experts
Silent But Costly
Dealing with the top four emerging compliance risks stemming from Form I-9.
In-House Tech
The Price of Privilege
Protective orders can up the ante on discovery costs.
IP Insider
Patent Reform: The Second Act
More parties can get into the act, so to speak, on patent challenges.
DC Watch
The Triumph of Losing
A law review article suggests that flubbing an argument can sometimes be a fast track to the Supreme Court.
If Silence is Golden, How About a Muzzle?
An EEOC office says that employees have a right to talk about investigations.
Hands Off His iPad
You (and Alec Baldwin) may soon be allowed to be wired at takeoff.
Outbox
Best Foot Forward
Bob Laufer: Head Legal Counsel, New York Road Runners
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