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September 26, 2005 |

Extraterritorial Reach

Determining jurisdiction by focusing on whether or not the extraterritorial conduct of foreign nationals would have a �substantial effect� on U.S. commerce, McBee is an explicit effort to harmonize the extraterritorial reach of U.S. trademark law with modern antitrust jurisprudence.
8 minute read
August 01, 2011 |

INADMISSIBLE

A farewell to Luckern; throwing names into the AG ring; the Blackwater battle continues; David Fuss knows the secret to survivin'; Harry Thomas Jr. hires the heavyweights; sweating for a good cause; and Mike Lee's balanced-budget book in this week's column.
6 minute read
March 25, 1999 |

Taking Out the Sting

Attorney Bruce Nickerson makes his living defending targets of gay sex busts, which often take place in public restrooms. It's two such successful cases before the California Supreme Court that lead Nickerson to straight-facedly describe himself as "the state's best toilet lawyer." A bisexual who has seven children from two heterosexual marriages, he regards his practice as a crusade, his contribution to the larger gay rights movement.
11 minute read
February 08, 2011 |

Alpharetta lawyer scores major wins in False Claims Act cases

Most law firms would rush to trumpet the kind of victories that Georgia attorney James J. Breen and his whistleblower client, Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys Inc., have scored in recent weeks.In December, Texas and the federal government announced $766 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud settlements in cases brought by Ven-A-Care.
7 minute read
February 03, 2012 |

K&L Gates Opens Office in Milan

K&L Gates has continued its geographic expansion, merging with an Italian firm to launch a new office in Milan and the firm's first in the European country.
3 minute read
September 03, 2003 |

Regularly Scheduled Programming

Lawyers spent $311.3 million on TV commercials in 2002, a 75 percent increase from 1999. And those ads have come a long way from the old days of quirky, amateurish productions. Today, commercials by subject are available for any interested law firm to purchase, and a broader range of lawyers see in television a way to find clients and get the word out about cases and settlements. "It's still frowned upon by a lot of lawyers, but the attitudes are changing," says attorney William Berg.
5 minute read
October 07, 2004 |

Spot the Litigation Trends

In today's fiercely competitive legal environment, lawyers must be adept at winning and keeping business. In other words, they must market themselves and their specialty services. To that end, lawyers are learning they can increase their use of electronic court records to discover all sorts of business information. Unlike their hard-copy equivalents, electronic records can be researched, cross-examined and summarized in graphic layouts.
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Is Time on Wal-Mart's Side in Pared-Down Sex Bias Class Actions?
Publication Date: 2012-10-16
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Female workers suing Wal-Mart got some good news last month, when a judge in San Francisco green-lighted a regional version of the nationwide employment class action that the Supreme Court rejected last year. But this week Gibson Dunn reminded the plaintiffs that pursuing their regional strategy is going to be tough.

January 14, 2008 |

Attorneys Reinstated to Practice From the 2007 Ineligible List

Notice to the bar.
3 minute read

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