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January 31, 2006 |

Political Spotlight Shines on Judicial Ethics

Disputes over conflicts of interest. Reports of a junket to a Colorado resort. The prospect of ever more partisan and expensive elections. Last week was quite a week in the life of the judiciary.
7 minute read
July 17, 2001 |

Federal Trial Court Nominee a Civil Sort

President Bush has tapped John Bates, the longtime head of the Civil Division of Washington, D.C.'s U.S. Attorney's Office, for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Bates has been at the center of one of Washington's most politically charged investigations: Kenneth Starr's wide-ranging Whitewater probe. But colleagues say he has never let politics influence his lawyering.
7 minute read
April 19, 2004 |

International Business Machines Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

Liability Coverage Trigger Is Last Date of Insured's Employees' Exposure to Cause of Injury
24 minute read
July 31, 2008 |

Associates Survey 2008 City

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January 30, 2006 |

Political Spotlight Shines on Judicial Ethics

Disputes over conflicts of interest. Reports of a junket to a Colorado resort. The prospect of more partisan and expensive elections. Last week was quite a week in the life of the judiciary. Yes, judges -- not Congress. Whether it was the afterglow of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr.'s skirmish with Democrats over judicial ethics or the reflected heat of the latest lobbying scandal, the judiciary was cast in an intensely political light -- and not in the best sense of the term.
7 minute read
July 30, 2002 |

'Activism' Is Question for Priscilla Owen

The fate of Priscilla Owen's nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may turn on the question of her "judicial activism" as a Texas Supreme Court justice. While the specific case her critics have latched on to -- regarding parental notification for teen abortions -- illustrates that judicial activism is in the eye of the beholder, the issue-loaded reproductive rights case could also doom the nomination.
7 minute read
September 18, 2001 |

Insurers Will Pay Big, but Not Without a Fight

Within 24 hours of the World Trade Center disaster, the owners of the World Trade Center had contacted Washington, D.C.-based Howrey Simon Arnold & White to discuss hiring the firm to help with insurance issues, confirms managing partner Robert Ruyak. With billions of dollars in claims on the line, fights over insurance coverage in the wake of the World Trade Center disaster are all but inevitable, most insurance lawyers agree.
8 minute read
July 07, 2009 |

The Layoff List: By the Numbers

Employment shifts at The Am Law 200, Global 100, and Other Firms of Note
20 minute read
IBM, Represented by Goodwin Procter, Wins Rights To Patents on Employee's Invention
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Can an employer claim the right to all inventions devised by its workers, even in their spare time? It sure can, according to a recent ruling by a Manhattan federal judge in a case that involved patents on methods to link electronic files to pictures.

March 01, 2013 |

The Score: Fish Reps NFL Players Calling on High Court to End California's Same-Sex Ban

Fish & Richardson IP partner John Dragseth and Emory University School of Law professor Timothy Holbrook are representing Brendan Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe on the amicus brief the players have filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in connection with Hollingsworth v. Perry. Plus: Skadden scores in its effort to stop sports gambling in New Jersey, and a private equity firm takes the lead in the bidding for a sports and entertainment giant advised by Hogan Lovells.
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