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August 02, 2005 |

Grokster: Safe Harbor Shrinking

Lawyers with teenage children have probably heard of Grokster, but now lawyers may be hearing from clients, not about Grokster itself, but about what the U.S. Supreme Court case by the same name could mean for their businesses. Theodore F. Shiells and Dustin M. Mauck describe how the Court's Grokster decision found that the safe-harbor provision established in Sony did not necessarily foreclose liability for actively inducing users' infringement.
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September 13, 1999 |

L.A. Firms' Dirty Little Secret: Hourly Rates

The big firms are getting used to announcing gross revenues that have become, well, gross. They're begrudgingly willing to talk about partner draws that are moving to the million-dollar neighborhood. What the big law firms are still downright shy about are the building blocks of all that filthy lucre: billing rates. Los Angeles insiders don't want to go on the record about charging $500 for partners. Why? "When you start raising rates, you change the way lawyers view each other," says one recruiter.
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February 28, 2011 |

Accidental Expatriates: Potential Global Mobility Hazard

A significant issue facing global corporations is the potential for liability created by "accidental expatriates" — employees who travel overseas on what are intended to be brief business trips or short assignments, write Erika Collins and John Hamlin. They are usually not included in their organization's global mobility expatriate programs, and whose time overseas is extended long enough or cumulates over time to bring about potential violations of host country immigration, tax and Social Security laws. Recently, the instances of accidental expatriates are on the rise. There are several reasons for the increase in these types of employees.
12 minute read
September 09, 1999 |

GM Obstructed Justice but Didn't Induce Witness To Lie

General Motors and its lawyers obstructed justice in shielding documents related to fuel-fed fires in its vehicles, but did not suborn perjury, a Fulton judge ruled. The ruling Tuesday stems from allegations the automaker and its lawyers committed various crime and frauds in concealing the existence and contents of a 1973 engineer's report. Brogdon wrote that he found no evidence that GM, its in-house lawyers or outside counsel caused or influenced the engineer to lie at deposition.
8 minute read
January 06, 2011 |

In Win for Gucci, Judge Says Privilege Applies to Lawyer Who's Not 'Active'

That sound you hear is a sigh of relief from GCs across the country: A judge has ruled that Gucci's talks with its (now fired) in-house lawyer are protected by privilege — even though he was an inactive member of the California bar.
2 minute read
October 18, 2007 |

Silicon Scene

Deal ahoy! An offshore shipping-container company goes public with MoFo. ... Familiar faces abound as Electronic Arts buys two companies once nurtured by its CEO.
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Airlines Strike Back at DOJ Merger Challenge
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American Airlines and US Airways are pushing back hard against the U.S. Department of Justice, filing court papers blasting the government’s bid to block their pending $11 billion merger.

February 01, 2007 |

France

Each year Paris-based legal magazine D�cideurs collects financial information for more than 300 firms, using reported data and in some cases estimates, to produce a list of France's largest and richest firms. Ranked by overall revenues, the 2006 winners were France's biggest firms: accounting firm spin-offs or affiliates Fidal, Landwell & Associ�s, and Ernst & Young Soci�t� d'avocats; large indigenous firms Gide Loyrette Nouel and CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre; and the Paris office
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October 03, 2005 |

What Grokster Means for Executives

Executives with teen-age children have probably heard of Grokster, a distributor of software that allows users to share music and video files through a peer-to-peer network. But now executives need to know what a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Grokster may mean for their businesses.
5 minute read
March 23, 1999 |

GM Lawyers Defend Against 'Lies' Told to Get Documents

Lawyers for General Motors came out shooting last week in a Georgia courtroom when they finally got their chance to defend against allegations of suborned perjury and obstruction of justice. Accusing their chief accuser, GM nemesis James Butler Jr., of lying about them, GM lawyers also suggested that Butler may have "cooked" critical testimony against GM.
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