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July 25, 2005 |

'Bluebook' strikes back

Until the year 2000, The Bluebook and its editors held an iron grip on the world of legal citation. It was then that a rebel alliance, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, introduced the ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation. With the publication of its 18th edition, the master is striking back.
4 minute read
August 29, 2002 |

Common Sense for Uncommon Times

After the Andersen verdict and corporate governance reforms, in-house lawyers' work may never be the same again. How should corporate counsel adapt? Should they look over their shoulders and mull over how the advice they give will play in the press? Corporate Counsel asked three legal experts to weigh in with their thoughts and advice.
10 minute read
June 14, 1999 |

Associates: Women in Skirts, Men in Dockers

A recent National Law Journal survey of lawyers' dress shows a surprisingly high penetration of casual Fridays, approaching 90%. [NLJ, May 31.] Yet a survey, by definition, ignores nuances. Interviews following up on the dress survey turned up two big nuances. First, women have not yet won yesterday's battle over business attire. Second, men are scared of casual wear.
4 minute read
August 19, 2009 |

Insurance litigator Oshinsky jumps ship again, to Jenner & Block

Veteran insurance coverage litigator Jerold Oshinsky, a former name partner of Washington's Dickstein Shapiro, has joined Jenner & Block's Los Angeles office just 10 months after teaming with colleague Scott Gilbert to launch a Southern California office for their firm. Oshinsky, who represents policyholders in various industries, said he left Gilbert Oshinsky to join a firm with a bigger national presence.
4 minute read
May 01, 1999 |

Killing Me Softly

Greg Aharonian is the patent community's angry middle-aged man. Every few days, he publishes the Internet Patent News Service, a free e-mail bulletin. Aharonian thinks that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is incapable of knowing what is truly inventive in software. So it issues way too many bad, overly broad software patents. And these patents -- more than 20,000 a year -- threaten to disrupt commerce by blocking competitors from promising markets.
6 minute read
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July 16, 2007 |

As medical patents surge, so do lawsuits

A surge in patents that protect surgeries and other medical methods has triggered numerous lawsuits in recent years, with inventors fighting more vigorously than ever to protect their intellectual property rights. Physicians are filing more patents for ever before, said Fish & Richardson's John Dragseth, and they are asserting their claims against medical device companies in court.
4 minute read
April 29, 2010 |

The law prof behind the Arizona immigration law

As the Justice Department and others weigh challenging Arizona's controversial new immigration law, the Missouri law professor who helped to draft it is preparing to defend it. In addition to teaching law, Kris Kobach has developed a busy side career representing local governments in their efforts to attack illegal immigration. Kobach spoke to the NLJ about the Arizona law and his role in it.
7 minute read
November 30, 2005 |

Are Arbitration Agreements in Job Applications Enforceable?

With increasing frequency, employers in many industries are embracing the use of arbitration as the exclusive dispute resolution mechanism with their employees. Two recent cases addressed the enforceability of arbitration agreements contained in job applications -- and came to opposite conclusions. Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas, partners at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, discuss those cases and their significance for employers who might be thinking of using such clauses.
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IP Litigation Roundup
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August 02, 1999 |

The New Media Suits

Plaintiffs suing the news media might be better off forgetting about what the media said and concentrating instead on how they learned it. That's the message from a flurry of high-profile lawsuits against reporters and their employers that are surviving summary judgment motions and, in some instances, ending in multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements. The suits target not the content of news stories, but rather the conduct of the newsgatherers.
9 minute read

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