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April 20, 2011 |

Next Stop for TiVo-EchoStar Battle: Supreme Court?

How important to Tivo is the outcome of its epic patent infringement battle with EchoStar Communications? Last May, when the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit granted EchoStar's request for an en banc hearing, Tivo's stock dropped nearly 42 percent. On Wednesday, the en banc panel issued its decision and Tivo's stock closed 30 percent higher.
4 minute read
September 22, 2010 |

HP Settles With Ex-CEO Mark Hurd

Mark Hurd vows to 'protect HP's confidential information' as Hewlett-Packard drops a lawsuit against its former CEO, settling a legal dispute over his decision to become co-president of rival Oracle Corp.
3 minute read
June 18, 2013 |

The Outer Edge of Edge Act Jurisdiction

In their Southern District Civil Practice Roundup, Edward M. Spiro and Judith L. Mogul, principals of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, discuss Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff's reversal of his own earlier decision upholding Edge Act jurisdiction after the Second Circuit called for a narrow reading of that statute's jurisdictional grant in its own recent decision.
12 minute read
May 20, 2010 |

Are You Sure Your Settlement Negotiations Are Confidential?

Brian S. Fraser and Patricia C. O'Prey, partners at Richards, Kibbe & Orbe, write that there is a good chance that, at least once, you have started a conversation with a real or potential adversary by saying "this is for settlement purposes only" or words to that effect and discuss the pitfalls if the other side doesn't keep the deal.
12 minute read
August 02, 2012 |

EEOC Intake Form Is Sufficient Notice of Discrimination Claim

A former JPMorgan Chase employee who filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission intake questionnaire, but no formal charge on time, can pursue her age-bias suit, a federal judge says.
4 minute read
February 07, 2007 |

Associates React to Jones Day and Weil Gotshal Salary Raises

Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have joined the list of law firms paying California first-year associates $160,000 rather than the $145,000 embraced by most homegrown firms. And now California's associate messageboards are crammed with anonymous young lawyers carping about their firms' failure to match the higher New York scale. But many associates accept the idea that New York and California are distinct markets -- and some would like to keep it that way.
4 minute read
April 26, 2010 |

Cutthroat associate market

The market may be warming to the idea of hiring associates, but it's still not easy for young lawyers to land a job these days. The prevailing view is that the job market is better, but remains vastly changed from prerecession times.
9 minute read
September 13, 1999 |

Merger Movement Picks Up Pace

It's not exactly Viacom and CBS, but two D.C. law firms had big merger announcements of their own last week. Howrey & Simon is joining forces with Houston-based IP specialists Arnold, White & Durkee to form an as-yet-unnamed 470-lawyer firm, while Venable is picking up D.C.'s 50-lawyer Tucker Flyer, helping shift the firm's center of gravity to the District. While law firm consolidation has been in full swing for several years, news of these mergers resonated sharply in the Washington legal community.
8 minute read
April 01, 2009 |

Giving New Meaning to Fee Fight, Client Says Award Is Owed Him, Not Lawyer

A lawyer who prevailed in a Title VII suit three years ago has been engaged since then in an unusual fee fight: against her own client, who says his pro se work - coupled with the lawyer's alleged malpractice - entitles him to keep the fees awarded.
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