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June 18, 2007 |

Winning with drama

Soon after jurors heard a man testify about his reconciled relationship with his newly rich brother, the other brother's lawyer, Mark S. Werbner, responded by asking his client's son to stand up in the courtroom.
5 minute read
November 08, 2004 |

Managing Your Outlook Calendar

Going out of your mind trying to keep up with a hectic schedule and the mounds of Post-its accumulating around your desk? Join the club. Sarita Livit has some tricks to help cope by using Microsoft Outlook. Combined, her scheduling tips promise to improve productivity in the workplace. And productivity, of course, equals more billable hours. What more could you ask for?
4 minute read
April 10, 2006 |

Arbitration taking on Olympic proportions

By Greg Land, Staff ReporterLike advocates of curling, synchronized swimming and modern pentathlon, participants in another obscure Olympic activity-arbitration-say they deal with tough competitors, tricky rules and high stakes.The pressure is going up, according to experts in Atlanta last week taking part in an American Bar Association Conference on alternative dispute resolution.
4 minute read
July 06, 2010 |

The Federal Pleading Standard:

In May 2007, with its decision in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the Supreme Court altered the way federal courts approach motions to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).
10 minute read
February 18, 2008 |

Sound legal analysis

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its opinion in Stoneridge. The court concluded that certain nonspeaking defendants were not liable under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 because the investors at issue did not rely on anything these defendants said or did. The inability to plead reliance as to these defendants � a critical element of a cause of action under Section 10(b) � required dismissal. The court's conclusions are legally sound and squarely grounded in its prior precedent.
4 minute read
September 24, 2012 |

'Sunbeam' Protects Trademark Licensees, But Questions Remain

Proskauer Rose partner Jeffrey W. Levitan writes: The law surrounding the rights and obligations of both licensees and licensors under rejected intellectual property licenses has been uncertain for many years. Perhaps the Seventh Circuit's recent entrance into the fray will provide the impetus for a final determination on this important issue.
12 minute read
January 31, 2005 |

Litigating landmark lawsuits

Profile: Marvin Krislov, vice president and general counsel, The University of Michigan
5 minute read
June 17, 2013 |

Jailbreak Your Smartphone but Not Your Tablet

The most recent set of exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act contains a quirk of interest to the intellectual property community: the Librarian of Congress opted to permit jailbreaking of smartphones but not of tablets.
9 minute read
October 02, 2013 |

Lawyers React to Shutdown: 'Reach for Federalist Papers'?

When the The National Law Journal asked prominent practitioners about their reactions to the federal government shutdown on October 1, here’s what they had to say.
4 minute read
May 11, 2011 |

Settlement Licenses and Reasonable Royalties

The Federal Circuit ruled in January that the "25 percent rule of thumb" standard used by damages experts in patent infringement cases for calculating a reasonable royalty was "fundamentally flawed." The court's ruling has important implications for both existing and future patent damage litigation, but isn't the only notable patent damages decision of the past year.
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