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March 12, 2009 |

Questions and Answers to Offer Lawyers an Edge

A special column is presented this month. I have received an increasing number of calls and e-mails from lawyers about the impact of the economy on their professional lives. What started as concern has grown to worry, and for some, especially those who have lost their jobs, despondency.
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April 04, 2012 |

Marketplace

Freeh Group International Solutions LLC, an independent global risk management firm whose founder and chairman is former Southern District judge and director of the FBI Louis Freeh, and its affiliate law firm Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan have relocated their New York City offices to the Empire State Building. Also, a joint venture of East End Capital and GreenOak Real Estate L.P. has acquired a trio of properties on Mercer Street, between Grand and Howard streets, for $18 million.
4 minute read
February 10, 2011 |

Unamused Client Wallops Cadwalader Over Amusement Park Deal

An investment vehicle closely tied to Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has sued Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft for $13 million over advice it gave on an investment bank's fee during a proxy fight at Six Flags Inc. in 2005.
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Patent Trial Pits U.S. Software Firm Against Russian Rival
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MoFo partner James Bennett gave opening statements for Nuance Communications on the first day of a jury trial involving competing products in the field of optical character recognition.

June 09, 2005 |

Blame Canada

Canada has become a key stop on the counterfeit road from China to the United States. The country's lax border controls make it one of the easiest routes for fake goods entering North America. All kinds of counterfeits -- from luxury goods, like handbags and watches, to airplane parts -- come through Canada, and travel down to the more lucrative U.S. market. There are no definitive statistics, but most estimates place the value of counterfeit goods in the Canadian market at around $25 billion and growing.
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February 28, 2011 |

Lawyer Settles Defamation Suit Over Her Firing

On Feb. 24, Pauline Higgins, former general counsel of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, announced she has settled her defamation and whistleblower suit. Higgins, who was fired on Feb. 23, 2010, sued Metro and Frank Wilson, the agency's former president and CEO.
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February 28, 2011 |

February Sees Surge in Lateral Moves

February could be the new January. Lateral movement wasn't very robust in the first month of 2011 as it often has been in prior years, but activity has increased this month. February started off with word that Dilworth Paxson executive committee member Wayne Streibich was leading a seven-lawyer team of consumer financial services lawyers to Blank Rome to head up a new industry group there. The group consisted of both regulatory and business attorneys as well as litigators.
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November 30, 2009 |

Registering marks as top-level domain names

For the first time, trademark owners may use their marks as generic top-level domain names. The application process is complex, but trademark law strategy can provide advantages.
7 minute read
August 05, 2013 |

Kirkland, Simpson Take Lead on Hub International Sale

In a deal between two private equity firms that values the company changing hands at $4.4 billion, Apax Partners has agreed to sell global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited to funds advised by Hellman & Friedman. Kirkland & Ellis is advising Apax; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is advising Hellman & Friedman.
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August 11, 2009 |

Prosecuting Counterfeiters in New York State

David Frey, an assistant district attorney on Staten Island and chief of the computer and technology investigations unit, writes: Our government has historically protected its citizens' economic rights through both administrative and penal regulation. But, while artists, authors and engineers might live or die by intellectual property rights, counterfeiting crimes do not seem to strike a chord with the average citizen. Perhaps because of this, counterfeiting intellectual property in particular has a low risk to high reward ratio.
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