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November 29, 2012 |

Cybersecurity Risks and the Board of Directors

In their Corporate Governance column, David A. Katz, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Laura A. McIntosh, a consulting attorney for the firm, write that with revenues, intellectual property, business relationships and customer confidence potentially at stake, directors should consider whether their companies and management teams are adequately addressing the growing threat of cybersecurity in the new high-tech landscape.
13 minute read
July 02, 2001 |

Court Goes Out in Smoke, Shaking a Big Stick

Last Thursday's Supreme Court decisions brought more ad-hockery on the First Amendment front, more good news for unwanted aliens, more bad news for prisoners seeking habeas review, and more opinions than anyone would want to read on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The last four opinions of the 2000 Term saw the Court break out the proverbial big stick and wield it in a somewhat unexpected manner.
26 minute read
December 04, 2000 |

Pursuing Business, Big and Small

In the second part of a series on Janet Reno's reign, Legal Times explores how the Justice Department has pushed and prodded American business like never before. While some of America's largest companies were targeted for fraud or antitrust violations, an all-out effort by the Civil Rights Division to ensure equal access for the disabled made complaints against diners and movie theater chains commonplace.
10 minute read
August 04, 2003 |

Photopaint Technologies LLC v. Smartlens Corp.

Petitioner Is Entitled to Relief From Federal Arbitration Act's One-Year Statute of Limitations
22 minute read
August 24, 2001 |

To the Rescue

Asbestos litigation isn't going to dry up anytime soon. Insurance experts expect claims to keep rolling in until about 2050. By then, corporate America's tab is expected to hit $200 billion. Only an ambitious lawyer would tackle the challenges asbestos liability poses, and Maura Abeln Smith, general counsel of Owens Corning, has taken them head-on in an attempt to save the company from its asbestos nightmare.
19 minute read
June 26, 2000 |

How the Microsoft War Was Won

Christopher Crook, the chief of the San Francisco field office of the Justice Department's antitrust division, led the work of a small but hardscrabble group of lawyers who left behind their families for nine months to work on the antitrust suit against Microsoft. They worked in spartan conditions, and under intense pressure, to slingshot one of the world's most successful firms.
10 minute read
July 14, 2003 |

Court Aces Noted for Frequent Appearances Before Justices

The last time Kenneth Geller argued more than two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in a single term was 1985, when he was working in the Solicitor General's Office representing the government.
10 minute read
November 04, 2005 |

Lawyers Allege Judge Steps on Individuals' Rights

On the bench for only 10 months, Texas Judge Lauri Blake has rubbed some lawyers the wrong way with her allegedly heavy-handed methods and unorthodox decisions. But Blake's supporters contend she's just trying to improve courtroom decorum. Blake has ordered an attorney be put into custody in a holding cell until he improved his manners. She also made headlines with a probation condition that required a 17-year-old girl who pleaded guilty to drug possession to abstain from sex.
8 minute read
July 14, 2003 |

Court Aces

Fewer and fewer law firms are handling more and more of the U.S. Supreme Court's shrinking number of cases. Repeat players were busy this term with key lawyers getting in and out of Supreme Court practice, and some firms scrambling to keep pace. Also, see how George Stephanopoulos landed a joint interview with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and how Chief Justice William Rehnquist feels about ERISA cases.
10 minute read
August 26, 2008 |

Remes Joins the Ranks of Gitmo Devotees

On July 14, inflamed about the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees, Covington & Burling's David Remes dropped his pants at a news conference in Yemen to demonstrate the techniques military guards use to conduct full-body searches. Just four days later, Remes announced he would resign from Covington to raise a human rights practice around his Guantanamo work, making him the latest to join a set of lawyers so consumed by the litigation that they've recoiled from their practices or left their firms.
9 minute read

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