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March 31, 2004 |

High Court Takes On Key Employment Law Issues

The Supreme Court has agreed to resolve two key employment law issues that have divided lower courts for years. The first hot topic will test the government's policy that calls for both the client and the lawyer to pay taxes on contingent fee money. The other matter taken up Monday asks whether plaintiffs claiming disparate treatment in the workplace can bring suit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act rather than Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
4 minute read
July 28, 2005 |

Justices Reopen Dog-Maul Case

The state Supreme Court agreed to decide, among many other things, whether dog-owner Marjorie Knoller got a raw deal.
5 minute read
January 17, 2006 |

The Doctrine of Patent Prosecution Laches

For nearly 70 years, the doctrine of patent prosecution laches remained mostly unchanged as an affirmative defense in litigation. But that all changed this fall when the Federal Circuit issued its decision in a case involving computer bar-code-scanning technology. Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss the decision as it relates to the doctrine of prosecution laches and other issues likely to impact computer and technology-related patent litigation.
11 minute read
April 21, 2004 |

Tsaropoulos v. The State of New York

Fact That Unavailable Mechanism Might Have Prevented Accident Does Not Denote Negligence
21 minute read
March 19, 2013 |

Seeing the Light With the Physician Payment Sunshine Act

On February 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited final rule implementing the physician payment transparency provisions, commonly referred to as the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, in the Obama administration's 2010 health care reform legislation.
8 minute read
January 04, 2011 |

The Churn.Gov: Lateral Moves From Feds to Firm

The new year brings big changes for many former elected officials. Arlen Specter, the longest serving U.S. Senator in Pennsylvania's history, is taking a teaching gig; congressman Earl Pomeroy and his chief of staff head to Alston & Bird; and Senator Kit Bond is joining Thompson Coburn.
3 minute read
June 29, 2011 |

Biggest tax avoiders seek $1 trillion tax break

Cisco Systems Inc. has cut its income taxes by $7 billion since 2005 by booking roughly half its worldwide profits at a subsidiary at the foot of the Swiss Alps that employs about 100 people.
11 minute read
October 05, 2000 |

B2B for You and Me?

Competitors that jointly form a business-to-business ("B2B") exchange must consider numerous business and legal issues. Although business and legal counsel can provide a good deal of concrete advice, the still-developing business models lack obvious solutions in many cases.
12 minute read
February 01, 2001 |

Leases Key as Dot-Coms Expire

With many tech businesses in distress, Silicon Valley's bankruptcy lawyers are seeing the busiest workloads in years. But with flailing click-and-mortar companies driving the deluge, the issues are all new. Aside from IP, the greatest source of cash and contention lies in the value milked from under-market leases. At the center of landlord-tenant brawls: a 1991 case that gives tenants the upper hand in California.
5 minute read

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