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October 20, 2010 |

Smaller Firms Manage Their Opportunities With Bigger Clients

Last year, as the economy faltered, many smaller firms began to hear opportunity knocking and came to find more and more large corporate clients gathered on their doorsteps. The recession forced in-house counsel at even the biggest companies to find creative ways to stretch shrinking legal budgets and many of them turned their attention to midsize and small firms. But now, the firms themselves must prove their worth while contending with increasingly aggressive large firms, some say.
7 minute read
January 12, 2011 |

PricewaterhouseCoopers Study Finds Jury Trials From 1995 to 2009 Yielded Higher Patent Damages Awards

In the wake of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit curbing high patent damages awards, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers study reports that elevated damages spur U.S. patent litigants to seek jury trials. Lawyers have "all known for some time that juries are more generous than judges," said Sarah Chapin Columbia (pictured), a Boston partner at McDermott Will & Emery.
4 minute read
November 07, 2008 |

Post-crash planners keep the faith in stocks

5 minute read
October 01, 2010 |

Protect Your Property

Two new sites protect your trademarks and your wallet.
6 minute read
February 19, 2008 |

Employment tests may fail legal exam

A growing number of employers are using employment exams-including aptitude tests-to weed out potentially bad hires, a practice that has triggered an increase in complaints and legal actions. The recent boom in online job applications yielding huge numbers of applicants has contributed heavily to the practice, lawyers note, along with post-Sept.
3 minute read
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July 30, 2002 |

Stress Related to High Expectations Ruled Not a 'Disability' Under ADA

In this time of corporate downsizing, employees who remain in their jobs are inevitably asked to do "more with less." The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in Carroll v. Xerox Corp.is part of an apparent trend among courts to keep the bar high in defining "disabilities" in the workplace, particularly when the employee claims to be disabled because of stress in the workplace.
4 minute read
May 25, 2000 |

Goodwin Hunting, Part II

In a move to make itself more known nationally, Boston's Goodwin, Procter & Hoar took on board 27 lawyers from a New Jersey-based law firm that was known as one of the top intellectual property law firms in the tri-state region. The group of lawyers, which includes the founding partners of Roseland, N.J.-based Friedman Siegelbaum, comprise what will become Goodwin Procter's Garden State office after June 1.
3 minute read
January 17, 2011 |

Jury Trials From 1995-2009 Yielded Higher Patent Damages Awards

In the wake of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit curbing high patent damages awards, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers study reports that elevated damages spur U.S. patent litigants to seek jury trials.
4 minute read
July 17, 2007 |

Fed, central bankers find high food prices hard to digest

RISING PRICES FOR FOOD, from yogurt in the U.S. to steak in South Africa, are causing heartburn at the world's most powerful central banks. The fastest increase in food-commodity prices in at least a decade has already led monetary authorities in England, Mexico, Chile and South Africa to lift borrowing costs. It is also sowing seeds of doubt about the U.
6 minute read
June 08, 2012 |

Gifts: Validity, Enforceability, Fodder for Litigation

In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, a partner at Farrell Fritz, addresses decisions respecting inter vivos gift transactions, providing the practitioner with useful instruction as to their enforceability.
12 minute read

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