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Given that 60 percent of the DOJ's FCPA enforcement actions last year involved alleged bribes to employees of state-owned companies, a lot was riding on Lindsey Manufacturing's argument that Congress didn't intend those employees to be considered foreign officials under FCPA. Judge Matz's ruling hewed closely to the specific facts before him, leaving open the possibility that another defendant may yet succeed in a similar challenge.
How an Expensive Office Lease Helped Kill a Venerable IP Boutique
When New York-based intellectual property specialty shop Darby & Darby announced in March that it was shutting its doors, many observers quickly lumped the firm in with other dead IP boutiques as another example of the notion that the boutique model no longer has legs. But in some ways, the firm's death represents something beyond the story of a struggling IP boutique. It's also a classic tale of how the burden of boom-time loans helped crush a company once tough times hit.IP Litigation: Poised for Takeoff?
The top firms in IP Law & Business' seventh annual patent litigation survey showed a slight bump up in work last year, but lawyers are already bracing themselves for a new wave of patent litigation following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in KSR v. Teleflex. Combined with the justices' other recent patent rulings and the potential for patent reform in 2007, the litigation landscape has suddenly been transformed into uncharted territory. Are these chart-topping firms ready for the journey?From Akin Gump to Kramer Levin
Letters A through K in the firm-by-firm summary of the responses to The American Lawyer's 2003 Associate Survey.The Lawyers of the 'Forbes' 400
Forbes released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans last week and according to The American Lawyer's analysis, 37 of those who made the cut are law school graduates. While most of them didn't accumulate their fortunes in the legal trade, Forbes does identify Houston's Joe Jamail as the nation's richest practicing attorney. Here are some of those that gave up billing by the hour in order to make billions.Trending Stories
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