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Antitrust Defendants Seek to Turn Tables on Anderson News
Publication Date: 2013-10-21
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Major magazine publishers and distributors have spent years unsuccessfully trying to dodge claims that they conspired to drive the magazine wholesaler Anderson News out of business. Now they want to take the offensive against Anderson with antitrust counterclaims of their own.

August 25, 2005 |

From Public to Private Employment: Companies Seek Exiting Government Lawyers for Hire

Corporate America is taking advantage of an increasingly popular strategy of hiring a top government regulator as general counsel. At a time when business lobbyists in Washington have engineered remarkable victories with policymakers in Congress -- such as this year's class action reform and bankruptcy legislation -- corporate interests are also lining up regulatory expertise with lawyers who know the agencies, the rules and the players.
10 minute read
February 15, 2007 |

Extreme Makeover: From Patent Troll to the Belle of the Ball

Acacia Technologies has been a venture capital group, patent troll and now, a respected patent-holding company. Acacia's officials claim the company specializes in licensing for the little guys, but it's no longer small potatoes. Where Acacia once survived on small licensing fees from Internet pornography sites, the company now has hundreds of licensees including IBM, Intel and Nokia. Recent patent rulings may change some things, but Acacia has no plans to abandon its unique -- and profitable -- strategy.
13 minute read
May 11, 2007 |

Crossing Cultures

When dealing with Asian clients, be careful how you handle business cards, and be attentive to who sits where. In Latin countries, be prepared for two-hour meals before talking business. In China, save the small talk for after the deal. And in France, you may want to arrive to a meeting fashionably late. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas and work with foreign clients, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a deal.
7 minute read
December 02, 2005 |

Accolades

For outstanding pro bono business counsel given to nonprofit organizations, the Lawyers Alliance for New York presented its annual Cornerstone Awards to Proskauer Rose and Shearman & Sterling, nine individual attorneys and a Columbia Law School professor during a reception last month at the Colgate-Palmolive headquarters on Park Avenue.
3 minute read
May 30, 2011 |

Museum dispute hits courts

Everything seemed in place in the early 2000s to have the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial open by the end of the decade. Beyond a basic concept, however, the major donors couldn't seem to agree on anything else.
5 minute read
December 01, 2010 |

Clogging the machine

What to do when you're choking on too much electronic data.
6 minute read
March 31, 2010 |

The Clock Is Ticking on E-Discovery and Evidence Retention

Pension Committee ruling raises the e-discovery bar for in-house counsel — and ups the risk of new penalties and sanctions for (gulp!) 'gross negligence.'
6 minute read
February 07, 2006 |

D.C. Firms View China With Caution

Dozens of U.S. firms have swept into the Chinese market in recent years -- 39 of the largest 250 U.S. firms have offices in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. But Washington, D.C., firms have been late to the game, with some justification. Most of the law firm money to be made stems from burgeoning corporate activity -- foreign investment, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions -- which is largely the province of big firms in New York and L.A. Still, China won't be ignored -- there's just too much money at stake.
9 minute read
February 07, 2006 |

D.C. Firms View China With Caution

Dozens of U.S. firms have swept into the Chinese market in recent years -- 39 of the largest 250 U.S. firms have offices in Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. But Washington, D.C., firms have been late to the game, with some justification. Most of the law firm money to be made stems from burgeoning corporate activity -- foreign investment, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions -- which is largely the province of big firms in New York and L.A. Still, China won't be ignored -- there's just too much money at stake.
9 minute read

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