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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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August 02, 2010 |

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Eighth Circuit Revives Big Damages for Record Companies in File-Sharing Case
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After the Eighth Circuit reinstated a $220,000 damages award against a Minnesota woman in a high-profile recording industry suit over illegal music downloads, her lawyers vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

January 18, 1999 |

And Theyre Off

Although Texas Supreme Court Justices Nathan Hecht and Al Gonzales drew last-minute primary challengers, those opponents will face Mount Everest-sized climbs as Hecht and Gonzales already have built campaign warchests and locked up the endorsements of the Republican leadership. And while little change is expected on the Supreme Court, the possibility of a major philosophical shakeup on the Court of Criminal Appeals looms. Among the many intrigues: the possibility of a husband-and-wife serving on the court.
8 minute read
March 29, 1999 |

Stacked Deck

With the federal commission on gambling in the midst of drafting its final report -- which will include recommendations to Congress on how to address the rapid growth of the gaming industry -- pro- and anti-gambling forces of all stripes are girding for a fresh lobbying battle.
9 minute read
October 01, 2013 |

NO MEEK HANDMAIDENS

American Association of Law Librarians has found its voice, and shouts about its value to legal shops.
7 minute read
August 03, 2012 |

Technology on Trial

SkyDox is one small piece in the lifecycle that brings 90,000 European Court of Human Rights rulings from the court's internal repository to the desktop of a reporter.
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