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GCs Vent Their Frustrations About Outside Counsel
As noted in a recent study, only about 30 percent of general counsel nationwide were satisfied with their primary law firms in 2005, down from 43.5 percent the year before. And the GCs, squeezed by budget constraints and pressure from boards of directors, are reacting to shoddy work by demoting and replacing their primary law firms and spreading the wealth among more secondary firms. How do you keep your law firm from losing its spot on the speed-dial? Some top GCs share their pet peeves in this interview.Lautenberg, Five-Term Senator From New Jersey, Dead at 89
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a businessman-turned-politician who pushed bills curbing gun purchases, reining in drinking by teenagers and drivers, and advocating environmental safety, is dead.Oracle Case E-Discovery Fight Heats Up
A major fight over alleged spoliation of evidence and the potential for sanctions over electronic discovery may be shaping up in San Francisco federal court for the Oracle securities class action. The dispute centers on a British author's missing audio files of interviews with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, made during the very period of class claims in In re Oracle Corp. Securities Litigation. The suit raises the issue of whether a party to a suit has an obligation to alert nonparties to save evidence.Silicon Valley Sees Hot Day in the In-House Market
Lots of movement among the titan tech GCs, with Apple's Donald Rosenberg moving over for Oracle's Daniel Cooperman after just 10 months on the job. Valley legal observers say they're not surprised Rosenberg is leaving after just 10 months, speculating that the Silicon Valley company just wasn't the best fit for the longtime IBM lawyer.Internet Expert Jumps From Harvard to Stanford
Lawrence Lessig, one of the nation's leading scholars on Internet law, is leaving Harvard Law School to join the faculty at Stanford Law School next fall. He earned much of his notoriety early in the Microsoft antitrust case, when he was appointed as special master, only later to be relieved of his appointment because of allegations from Microsoft that he was biased against the company.Trending Stories
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