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February 18, 2000 |

Getting Around IP Immunity

Politicians on both sides of the aisle on the Hill say that before they pass new legislation that subjects states to federal intellectual property laws, they want the IP community to come to a consensus that doesn't violate sovereign immunity. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made a formal request for hearings on a bill he proposed last fall that attempts to circumvent recent Supreme Court rulings immunizing states from suit for patent infringement or false-advertising violations under the Lanham Act.
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January 31, 2006 |

Top Gainers

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January 29, 2007 |

East Coast Law Firms Opening L.A. Offices

Los Angeles has morphed into a hotbed of recruiting in the past eight months as several midsized firms from the East Coast aggressively open offices.
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November 23, 1999 |

Time May Be Right to Push for Texas Shield Law

When James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death in 1998, the brutal murder sparked hate crime legislation in Texas -- an effort that ultimately failed. Now, the trial of one of Byrd's alleged attackers may cause lawmakers to push a bill that's of interest to both journalists and criminal lawyers. When CBS' "60 Minutes II" was forced to hand over to prosecutors the transcript of an interview with Shawn Allen Berry, the incident highlighted the lack of a Texas media shield law.
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July 24, 2006 |

West Texans Fight Sunshine Law's Constitutionality

Could one of Texas' most prominent criminal-defense attorneys dismantle the Texas Open Meetings Act &#151 the 39-year-old law that's a bedrock principle of state government requiring decisions to be made in public? Dick DeGuerin of Houston's DeGuerin Dickson & Hennessy thinks he can.
7 minute read
January 27, 2003 |

Newsmakers

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January 17, 2006 |

Bimbo GC: It's Not What You Think

Since Claudia Coscia became the first GC for Fort Worth-based Bimbo Bakeries USA in 1998, she has reduced the company's legal costs by more than 50 percent. She says the savings came from a combination of tactics, including doing more work in-house, closer management of outside counsel and negotiation of fixed-fee schedules. And for the record, the name of the company -- the U.S. operation of a Mexico City-based entity -- comes from a combination of "bambino" and "Bambi."
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July 25, 2005 |

First Amendment Protects Newsletter Stock Advice

In a case of first impression, Fort Worth's 2nd Court of Appeals recently ruled that the author and the publisher of a financial newsletter deserve First Amendment protection from claims alleging they printed bad investment advice.
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March 03, 2006 |

Atlanta Firms Slow Flow of M&A Deals to New York

It used to be that an Atlanta company preparing for a big deal would shun its local counsel for a Manhattan law firm. Now, mergers and acquisitions practices at Atlanta firms routinely handle multibillion-dollar transactions. Case in point: Smith, Gambrell & Russell partner Robert Paller, who represented AirTran Airways when the discount airline raised $4.5 billion to buy 114 planes from Boeing. The rise of Atlanta firms comes as the national value of M&A deals rose to $1.1 trillion last year.
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January 18, 2000 |

Counsel With Cash

When former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley announced he would run for president, he called Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner John Roos. When Texas Gov. George W. Bush threw his hat in the ring, the Bush campaign placed a call to Thelen Reid & Priest partner Stephan Minikes. The reason: money -- lots of money. Federal Election Commission records show lawyers have been the top individual contributors to presidential campaigns this year.
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