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May 16, 2005 |

Beware Pharming and Other New Hacker Scams

Survey shows many companies avoid a service pack designed to fix security flaws. Perhaps an overview of some of the newest threats coming online will remind you that while patches may provide their own brand of irritation, compared to the ongoing attacks against your privacy, identity, and income, they may be worth it.
5 minute read
April 11, 2013 |

Majority of 2012 Patent Litigation Filed by 'Patent Trolls'

More than half of the patent litigation cases filed in the U.S. in 2012 were brought by companies whose sole purpose is to license patents—so-called "patent trolls"—according to a new study.
4 minute read
September 29, 2011 |

9th Circuit Vacates ruling That Found 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Unconstitutional

Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain wrote in a separate concurring opinion that he would have gone farther and reversed Riverside Judge Virginia Phillips' ruling.
5 minute read
October 08, 2007 |

Corpus Christi Counsel Runs TV Ads, Files UPL Complaint Questioning Competitor's Credentials

Tired of waiting for the State Bar of Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee to respond to a complaint he filed in May, Corpus Christi plaintiffs personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry began running television advertisements on Sept. 28 questioning the credentials of Mauricio Celis, a partner in CGT Law Group International in Corpus Christi, which also represents plaintiffs.
9 minute read
July 03, 2001 |

Demotion Causes a Commotion

Miles Locker doesn't have a reputation as a radical. The 45-year-old career attorney with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement is considered professional, dedicated and fair by both sides of the employment bar. So the fact that an opinion letter written by Locker has him in the middle of a political firestorm -- and that he paid for it with his job and a pay cut -- is a big surprise.
6 minute read
December 13, 2010 |

Group Home Has Charitable Immunity From Claim Over Off-Site Fatal Injury

A group home for the disabled that provides residents with vocational and life-skills training is within the scope of the Charitable Immunity Act, even for injuries that occur off-premises, a state appeals court rules.
4 minute read
April 12, 2001 |

Seduced

The seduction of 1L Mitch Artman began with hours of research, practice, and writing briefs, and proceeded to open court -- Moot Court, that is. Moot Court taught him the real danger of lawyering: People, even lawyer-people, are not immune to their own rhetoric. Every time you practice arguments in front of a mirror, there's someone listening: you.
4 minute read
June 07, 2013 |

LawJam 2013: It's All In The Name For Mikey Mel & The JDs

I started this band in my basement the summer before I started law school at UGA. I was the only member of the band. I knew I would always be a member of my band, so I put my name on it. I figured that if anyone else would join the band, they should be separated from me with an ampersand.
4 minute read
June 07, 2013 |

Q&A: Justice Patricia Di Mango

Supreme Court Justice Patricia Di Mango of Brooklyn, a quick-thinking, quick-talking Brooklyn native, has presided over her share of high-profile trials, but it was her ability to wrangle cases that made her court administrators' choice to lead an effort to get under control soaring felony backlogs in the Bronx.
12 minute read
June 12, 2013 |

Monsanto agrees not to sue over traces of modified seeds

Monsanto Co. won't have to face a challenge to its patents on genetically modified seeds after a U.S. appeals court affirmed a decision to throw out a lawsuit filed by organic farmers and seed sellers.
6 minute read

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