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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
November 13, 2001 |

Jordan's Sovereign-Immunity Claim Doesn't Fly in 5th Circuit

The Kingdom of Jordan lost another round in its ongoing effort to end a dispute over the ownership of an airplane grounded in Texas. Jordan says the sequestration of the plane violates its immunity as a foreign sovereign, but the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the federal district court lacks jurisdiction in the case. The decision raises the issue of what role federal courts play in disputes involving foreign countries.
5 minute read
September 24, 2007 |

Former High-Flier Pan Am Looks to Clip Its Old Firm Sheppard Mullin

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 claiming the firm represented Pan Am's general counsel without the company's knowledge.
7 minute read
April 22, 2013 |

Tallying the Big Pro-CISPA Corporate Contributions

As the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) moves through the legislative process, pro-CISPA corporate interests are outspending opponents of the bill "by orders of magnitude."
3 minute read
August 02, 2001 |

A View to a Kill: Lost GE/Honeywell Deal Exposes Trans-Atlantic Conflict

The scuttling of General Electric's $42 billion acquisition of Honeywell by the European Commission put antitrust review of trans-Atlantic mergers center stage and highlighted differences in doctrine between U.S. and European regulators. In this article, William J. Kolasky and Leon B. Greenfield, who represented the companies in the final stages of the EC's investigation, discuss the potential negative impact of this trans-Atlantic rift.
10 minute read

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