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Four Pharmaceutical Companies to Pay $124 Million to Settle FCA Claims
Publication Date: 2009-10-19
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As the Obama administration pushes for health care reform, the Justice Department is sending out the message that it's cracking down on fraud by the pharma industry. Meanwhile, a frequent whistle-blower and its law firm will reap more than $10 million.

June 24, 2004 |

Courting Shell

When Shell Oil held a beauty contest last year to pick a group of "strategic partners" -- a small nucleus of firms that would handle most of its legal work -- a key factor in the Houston-based company's selections was serious, provable commitment to diversity at all levels of a firm's hierarchy. Shell's move signals a market change: Clients are pushing for diversity, and the business case for it is becoming clearer.
11 minute read
September 14, 2009 |

Closed Compensation: The Secret to Jones Day's Success?

There's a lot of things Jones Day doesn't do. It doesn't tell its partners what other partners make, it doesn't issue profit figures, it doesn't pay bonuses, it doesn't let partners vote on who will head the firm, it hasn't conducted mass layoffs and it doesn't pay associates in lockstep. One thing it is doing is growing, quickly. While some out-of-town firms have struggled to gain a foothold in the Bay Area, Jones Day has grown from a couple of dozen lawyers there in 2003 to 137 today.
8 minute read
October 09, 2006 |

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May 17, 2002 |

Federal Building Plants Prestige

T he love-it or hate-it debate over the looming, modernist design of the federal courthouse in Central Islip still rages a year and a half after it opened for business, but even those who dislike its unconventional appearance have discovered it can be a useful symbol of prestige and prosperity.
8 minute read
March 23, 2009 |

Comings & Goings

Jenna Conrad was named vice president and legal counsel at Beneficial Bank of Philadelphia. Conrad is the first attorney to join Beneficial Bank as an in-house legal counsel.
3 minute read
September 02, 2004 |

In Security

InterTrust Technologies Corp. looked like another dot-com failure -- until its Hail Mary suit against Microsoft paid off. The $440 million bonanza payout for a 20-year license shows that a company can strike gold with its patents -- if it's willing to go to extreme measures to develop, protect and enforce its IP rights. But don't count on a fairy-tale ending just yet. Even $440 million won't go far if InterTrust is unable to find other licensees.
10 minute read
October 07, 2002 |

Suit Over Airlines' Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA

When Robert Gumson goes online, he uses a program that converts Web site content into speech. But when he went to Southwest Airlines' Web site, Gumson, who is blind, found that it was incompatible with his screen-reader program. Under an untested legal theory, Gumson and a Miami Beach, Fla.-based disability rights group, Access Now, have filed suits against Southwest and American Airlines under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
7 minute read
December 28, 2006 |

Bush Administration Officials on the Move

They're not expecting a mass exodus, but law firm recruiters predict plenty of movement by government lawyers now that the Democrats are in control.
8 minute read
July 11, 2003 |

Arent Fox Looks for Footing on Rough Road

Within the last year, Arent Fox has weathered the departures of 52 lawyers -- and during the past decade it has shuttered four offices and reached dead ends in a number of merger talks. Now partners are in search of a strategy to remake the D.C. mainstay. "It's a task that leaves nothing sacred except our name," says managing partner William Charyk.
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