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November 09, 2000 |

New Congress to Favor Business Interests

The apparent Republican sweep of the congressional election bodes well for business interests, but may not lead to an easing of antitrust scrutiny. Business leaders expect Congress -- even with a razor-thin Republican majority -- to embrace issues important to Wall Street, including tax cuts, deregulation, free trade and education reform. But the record for mergers and acquisitions is far more murky.
5 minute read
August 23, 2002 |

Proposed Notice for Class Action Gets Cold Shoulder

The class notification procedures proposed by plaintiffs and defendants in a class action against the manufacturers of Cold-Eeze brand zinc lozenges have been disapproved by a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge. Notably, Judge Albert W. Sheppard ruled that the defendant manufacturer is not required to post notice of the suit to potential class members on its Web site.
4 minute read
November 12, 2003 |

House of Cardboard

With a $92.5 million settlement by the final and largest defendant, a class-action antitrust suit against the leading manufacturers of corrugated paper products has now resulted in combined settlements of more than $210 million -- the largest ever in a price-fixing case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
7 minute read
June 14, 2005 |

Professional Liability

Norman B. Arnoff, who practices law in New York City, and Sue C. Jacobs, a member of Goodman & Jacobs, write that a recurring ethical issue for lawyers litigating cases in the U.S. district courts occurs when the lawyer is or should be a witness. A review of Disciplinary Rules and recent cases should clarify both the issues and our best response when the issue arises.
13 minute read
May 20, 2011 |

'Corporate Counsel' Names Google's Legal Department Best of 2011

Spend time with the energetic crew at Google, and the word "disrupt" comes up a lot. Google's businesses tend to do that to the traditional marketplace, and "Googlers" (as they call themselves) make no apologies. In fact, they use the word with pride -- sounding like 1960s protesters determined to shake the Establishment.
17 minute read
April 18, 2002 |

Profiles of Change

Think there's only one way to become a star litigator? Far from it. There are many paths to the top. Here, six litigators tell about their varied careers in government and private practice, speaking on topics from their undergraduate majors and initial career goals to their current practices.
13 minute read
August 17, 2001 |

DOJ Clears Way for 3D's DTM Buy

The Department of Justice dropped an antitrust challenge to 3D Systems Corp.'s $45 million acquisition of DTM Corp. after the companies agreed to license technologies used to create three-dimensional computer designs. The settlement is the latest example of the government's intolerance for "three-to-two" mergers, where two of the three competitors in a given market decide to combine.
3 minute read
April 14, 2011 |

Agree Not to Not Solicit

Contracts between organizations broadly prohibiting employee solicitation may invite a DOJ antitrust probe, explains David P. Nemecek of Long & Levit.
8 minute read
July 10, 2003 |

Under Pressure?

On June 2, a bitterly divided Federal Communications Commission voted along partisan lines to relax the agency's decades-old media ownership restrictions that govern how many and what type of media outlets a single entity may own. Randolph J. May warns that if the tactics employed by those who opposed the FCC's deregulatory initiative become the norm, sound agency decision-making may be the loser.
8 minute read
March 15, 2010 |

Alexander v. Cahill

Free: Circuit Rejects Most of New York's Attorney Advertising Rules
51 minute read

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