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September 24, 2007 |

Pan Am Alleges Sheppard Mullin Helped Ex-GC Conceal His Fraud

The re-reincarnation of the airline Pan American is suing Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton and one of the firm's D.C. attorneys for legal malpractice, alleging the firm, which represented two of the airline's subsidiaries in the past, breached a fiduciary duty by agreeing to represent Pan Am's general counsel without the company's knowledge. The case provides an interesting, though convoluted, look at what can happen if your wayward in-house counsel lawyers up with one of your outside law firms.
7 minute read
July 22, 2005 |

Northwest Prepares for Mechanics Strike, While Attendants File Suit

With a possible mechanics strike looming, Northwest Airlines says it has nearly finished training replacement workers and that it has begun shifting more maintenance work to outside contractors. The nation's fourth-largest airline has vowed to keep flying if mechanics strike on Aug. 20, when a 30-day cooling-off period ends. Meanwhile, Northwest flight attendants sued the airline in federal court Thursday, demanding that it stop training replacement attendants in preparation for a strike.
3 minute read
July 18, 2013 |

Asia Deal Digest: July 18, 2013

* Chinese search giant Baidu turns to Davis Polk for its largest acquisition ever* MoFo and Fenwick & West lead on a $1.8 billion mobile chip deal in China* A New Zealand health care company turns to Chapman Tripp for an $860 million Aussie acquisition
7 minute read
March 17, 2008 |

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

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May 03, 2013 |

The 'Rogue Employee' and Dogs That Eat Homework

Have you ever noticed, when companies become the focus of a compliance scandal, that one of the first instincts of the company spokesperson is to blame the bad act on the proverbial "rogue employee"?
4 minute read
December 20, 1999 |

Gold Diggers

Amazon gets it. Wired didn't. In September, the Internet bookseller won a patent for its one-click ordering system. Then Amazon.com pounced on its chief rival, barnesandnoble.com, claiming patent infringement. In early December, Amazon won a preliminary injunction, forcing barnesandnoble.com to change its ordering system at the height of Christmas shopping. The self-proclaimed voice of new technology, Wired magazine, could have tried to cash in on one of its innovations -- click-through banner advertising.
7 minute read
July 01, 2011 |

Cuba tries to drag shadow economy into the light

A slew of economic changes introduced over the past year by President Raul Castro, including the right to work for oneself in 178 approved jobs, has been billed as a wide new opening for entrepreneurship in Cuba.
7 minute read
January 29, 2002 |

Defense Work

Having recently acquired Litton Industries and Newport News Shipbuilding, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. is now the third-largest defense contractor in the United States. General counsel W. Burks Terry calls himself "the last of the general practitioners," explaining that his job calls for experience with issues ranging from real estate to human resources to government contracting to intellectual property.
6 minute read
April 18, 2005 |

Cost Effective, Plane and Simple

Firms can opt out of the high expense and hassle of traditional commercial air transportation in favor of a better option: private aircraft flight operations.
5 minute read
May 02, 2013 |

The Pros and Cons of In-Flight Wi-Fi

There are two kinds of attorneys on airplanes: those who view their time in the sky as a respite from communications and those who have memorized the entire list of approved electronic devices. For both camps, in-flight Internet has largely been a disappointment.
7 minute read

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