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May 04, 2000 |

Part-time Work, Full-time Lives

In a profession that prizes workoholics, a handful of attorneys carve a comfy niche for themselves in customized work arrangements with their firms. Not surprisingly, a lot of them are working moms. How do the economics pan out for their firms, and can lawyers really free themselves from the "tyranny of the billable hour"?
9 minute read
November 30, 2004 |

Justices Dubious of Medical Marijuana

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to accept Bush administration arguments that California's medical marijuana law interferes too much with federal efforts to combat illicit drugs. In spite of the conservative majority's interest in strengthening state powers, most justices seemed skeptical of the argument that California could defy the federal Controlled Substances Act by allowing purely in-state, noncommercial distribution of marijuana for medical use.
5 minute read
August 01, 2006 |

Finnegan's Leap

in The American Lawyer's midlevel associate survey rankings-respectable, but unexciting. A few years ago, that all changed: The firm jumped to twenty-second place in 2004; it leaped to seventh in 2005. And this year, the Washington, D.C.-based intellectual property firm claimed second place, finishing behind only Rochester, New York's Harter, Secrest & Emery.
11 minute read
July 02, 2007 |

Patents Now Tempting Target for Funds

Private equity and hedge funds are aggressively moving into new corners of the intellectual property arena.
6 minute read
October 18, 2007 |

New FTC Office Director Vows 'Robust' Outreach

Thomas Cohn, 47, recently took over as regional director of the Federal Trade Commission, a regulatory agency charged with conducting merger reviews and preventing anti-competitive conduct.
6 minute read
May 11, 2011 |

NY Firm Expands Its Art Deco Home

3 minute read
June 28, 2007 |

Private Equity Helps Fuel IP Wars

The appetite for investment among private equity and hedge funds has driven them to more "exotic" IP assets, Morrison & Foerster partner G. Larry Engel said. That means business for the lawyers, and it has also made one patent fight very nasty.
6 minute read
July 03, 2012 |

Gibson Dunn Takes Litigation Duo From Ropes & Gray

Gibson Dunn has tapped two Ropes & Gray partners to beef up its white-collar and securities presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Thad Davis and Michael Wong, who spent the past several years building Ropes' San Francisco litigation practice, join as co-chair of the national securities litigation practice and co-chair of the national securities enforcement practice.
5 minute read
August 02, 1999 |

Shootings Overshadow ABA Panels Gun Violence Debate

Thursday's shooting rampage in metro Atlanta occurred just a week before the ABA comes to town to hear, among other things, a debate on gun suits. Though no details had emerged late Friday of any possible liability surrounding the shootings in Buckhead that left as many as nine dead, those involved in gun suits say it will be impossible to avoid reference to the massacre at the ABA's panel discussion.
6 minute read
August 19, 1999 |

Fertilizer Manufacturers Not Liable for World Trade Center Bombing

Fertilizer manufacturers can't be held legally responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City even if it could be shown that they had known for years how to make a product that wouldn't detonate when combined with fuel oil, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. ``Manufacturers have no duty to prevent a criminal misuse of their products which is entirely foreign to the purpose for which the product was intended,'' U.S. Circuit Judge Jane R. Roth wrote.
4 minute read

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