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Top Priority: Expanding Agency's IP Policy-Making Role
While Bruce Lehman, U.S. Patents and Trademarks Commissioner, has been out of the picture since December, his agenda and the problems he left behind have fallen to his likely successor, nominee Q. Todd Dickinson. With few critics and much praise for his work so far, Dickinson's nomination has aroused no serious opposition. But Dickinson has inherited an office whose workload is ever growing because of booming demand and personnel shortages occasioned by a five-year federal hiring freeze.Strasburger Prepares For Departures
Almost a year to the day after they announced their imminent merger, Dallas' Strasburger & Price and an unknown number of lawyers from San Antonio's Wells Pinckney & McHugh are in the process of calling it quits.Top 10 Texas Settlements in 2002
Texas Blue Sheet, a weekly publication of The National Law Journal's Litigation Services Network and an affiliate of Texas Lawyer, ranked the top 10 settlements in Texas during 2002.Most Associate Bonuses at Large Texas Firms Mirror Last Year's
With some enviously high exceptions, bonuses paid at the end of 2005 to associates with large Texas firms were similar to bonuses paid at the end of 2004. Sure, Houston's Susman Godfrey paid out year-end bonuses ranging from $86,000 to $150,000 -- averaging 75 percent of each associate's base pay -- but most associates statewide received considerably less. George Lamb, chairman of Baker Botts' associate compensation committee, says its two-tier bonus is based on merit and on productivity.Bimbo GC: It's Not What You Think
Since Claudia Coscia became the first GC for Fort Worth-based Bimbo Bakeries USA in 1998, she has reduced the company's legal costs by more than 50 percent. She says the savings came from a combination of tactics, including doing more work in-house, closer management of outside counsel and negotiation of fixed-fee schedules. And for the record, the name of the company -- the U.S. operation of a Mexico City-based entity -- comes from a combination of "bambino" and "Bambi."Trending Stories
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