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September 24, 2012 |

Largest Law Firms

59 minute read
September 22, 2006 |

Tort Reform in the Courts: A Defense Attorney Challenges Outdated Legal Precedents

For more than 240 years, writes Victor E. Schwartz, wise plaintiffs counsel have mined the gold of legal change for the benefit of their clients. By way of contrast, when defense counsel are retained, they focus on what is immediate. In this commentary, Schwartz examines the divergent ways in which plaintiffs lawyers and defense lawyers have viewed, and responded to, the common law of torts.
16 minute read
February 25, 2002 |

Who Owns The Earth?

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company went to trial in Beaumont, Texas, in a poison well case with the deck stacked against it, and the stakes high. But DuPont won that bet, saving the company multimillions and frustrating trial lawyers` hopes to establish property rights deep below the surface of the earth.
14 minute read
January 05, 2005 |

Employment Law Forecast: Stormy Weather

The biggest civil rights class action in history, Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., may be a sign of things to come, according to lawyers who note that employment class actions are on the upswing. The spike in class actions alone would make 2005 challenging. But there's more: new federal regulations on overtime pay policies, tax code changes and a Supreme Court case that could make it easier for plaintiffs to bring age discrimination cases. It's going to be an unsettled year.
11 minute read
March 18, 2008 |

Antitrust Trade and Practice

Neal R. Stoll and Shepard Goldfein, partners at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, write that little over a month after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Leegin, unhappy U.S. senators sprung into action, convening hearings to examine the impact of Leegin on consumers, retailers and pricing.
9 minute read
July 11, 2002 |

Inside the D.C. Top 20 Firms

Legal Times' annual survey looks at the financial performance of the highest-grossing law firms in the D.C. area. What thriving practice kept Arnold & Porter in the top spot? How did Covington & Burling fare? Why did Crowell & Moring's revenue spike? How has Latham & Watkins made itself a major player in the Washington market?
36 minute read
April 30, 2002 |

Barnyard Brawl

When Dolly the sheep made her public debut in 1997 as the world`s first cloned animal, scientists at the University of Massachusetts and DeForest, Wis.-based Infigen Inc. didn`t see much that was new.
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Yahoo Succeeds Where Google Failed in East Texas Patent Trial
Publication Date: 2011-05-11
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Following Google's $5 million patent trial loss last month to Bedrock Computer Technology, it took a jury in the same Tyler, Texas courtroom just 40 minutes to reach a verdict of non-infringement on Tuesday in Bedrock's case against Yahoo over the same patent.

July 18, 2002 |

The Next New Thing

It's time to move on to the next new economy, and it is biotechnology. The San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, San Diego and Montgomery County, Md., are the hot spots for the emerging biotech industry. In California especially, where the health of so many law firms was tied to the Internet economy, many of them are latching on to biotech as a way out from under the dot-com debris.
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