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Nearly two years after rolling out a model order intended to get a grip on out-of-control electronic-discovery demands, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's advisory council is poised to issue new rules that ask patent litigants to make their own sacrifices.
Summer Associates Survey 2011: A Season In the Sun
After two years of economic anxiety, summer associates rediscover their optimism.Microsoft deputy GC discusses Yahoo deal, Chinese hackers
In Washington and the world, the range of issues that interest Microsoft Corp. is huge. Pamela Passman, Microsoft's deputy general counsel global corporate affairs, watches over many of them.DOJ Defections Grow as Prosecutor Firings Controversy Builds
The number of attorneys defecting from the Department of Justice to private practice is mounting. Although some departures may be attributable to the usual revolving door for attorney jobs at government agencies, the imbroglio surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is an unlikely enticement for attorneys to stay put. Akin Gump partner Mark Botti, formerly with the DOJ's Antitrust Division, says the recent trouble at the department had more of an impact on appointed attorneys than career attorneys.Rambus is still paying for its decision to shred reams of documents before it launched a litigation campaign against a big swath of the semiconductor industry. The latest blow came on Friday, when the judge most sympathetic to Rambus over the years ruled that the company spoliated evidence and signaled that he would reduce a $397 million judgment that Rambus won against rival SK Hynix in 2009.
Deutsche Bank Relations in Spotlight After White & Case Departures
White & Case is working to renew its relationship in London with key client Deutsche Bank after six partners with links to the client left the firm's banking and capital markets practice over the past 18 months. After key relationship partner Mike Goetz quit for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in March 2008, a further five partners linked with Deutsche Bank in London have left. At its height the relationship was thought to be worth around $25 million a year to the firm's London office.An iconic liquor scored an injunction against an alleged copycat and a small furniture maker accused a larger retailer of ripping off its designs. In the smartphone wars, Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. uncovered some ammunition in its bid to undo the $1 billion verdict it lost to Apple in August.
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