| Checking In: GC Has No Reservations About How He Works With Outside Counsel: Mark M. Chloupek is an up-to-the-minute kind of lawyer. When he hires outside counsel, he expects to know what they know, when they know it. "As much as I don't micromanage what they are doing, I want to know everything they are doing," says Chloupek, executive vice president legal and general counsel of Irving-based LQ Management.
Make Sure Workers Take Their Vacations: With the shaky economy causing many employees to forgo taking a vacation, employment lawyers are urging employers to give workers an extra nudge this year and make sure they take time off.
Have You Come a Long Way, Baby?: How far have women come in the workplace, legally and culturally — not in theory, but in reality?
Corporate Counsel Reduce Ranks of Secondary Outside Firms: Corporations are using fewer firms because short-staffed corporate legal departments have little time to manage outside firms, not just because consolidating work is cheaper, according to a new law firm consulting survey.
Questions Remain in Calculating Post-Verdict Royalties: patent litigants expend significant time focusing on the factors necessary to prevail on the injunction issue, but they often overlook a new aspect of the damages analysis: the proper amount of damages for a defendant's post-verdict infringement.
Questions Remain After Contributory-Infringement Decision: Recently, the Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals drastically changed the law regarding contributory infringement — or did it?
Strategic IP Investment in Core Business Is Key, Despite Economy: As companies decide where to spend internal investment dollars, GCs and executives need to prioritize technology and intellectual property related to companies' core businesses.
