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January 19, 2006 |

What Every Corporate Counsel Should Know About Non-Compete Agreements

Businesses can get a nasty surprise when they learn that a court will not enforce a former employee's non-competition agreement. To avoid this result, in-house counsel should carefully draft their non-compete clauses, with full awareness of the general principles and their state's laws. Provided here is a sample of different state courts' approaches to interpreting and enforcing non-competition agreements. Such information can also be important when considering new applicants, and in times of merger.
14 minute read
September 07, 2010 |

7th Circuit favors British firm in dispute over French press coffee makers

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in ruling in favor of a British manufacturer of French press coffee makers, served up extensive dicta about how U.S. courts should interpret foreign law.
4 minute read
September 14, 2007 |

How Associates Become Rainmakers

By the time most law firm associates have reached the senior level, they've developed the technical skills and proficiency necessary to be good lawyers and the personality traits necessary to please clients. The associates who are able to use these qualities to bring in new business, as opposed to simply completing the work assigned by partners, are much more likely to become partners themselves one day. So, how does one make the transition to rainmaker? Consultant Monica Goebel has some tips.
11 minute read
July 09, 2007 |

Accounting Change Has Lawyers Busy

A sweeping change in an accounting standard that requires companies to quantify the risk of an Internal Revenue Service challenge to many types of taxes reported on corporate tax returns and financial statements has companies running to tax lawyers. The new standard, coupled with IRS scrutiny of multinational transfer pricing, has heightened corporate demand for legal advice in this area, said DLA Piper partner Brian Andreoli. "New clients are saying, 'Help us do it the right way,'" Andreoli said.
5 minute read
April 27, 2012 |

W.Va. Firm Merges With Western Pa. Energy Boutique

Charleston, W.Va.-based Jackson Kelly has announced it will expand its Western Pennsylvania energy law presence with the addition of Indiana, Pa.-based oil and gas boutique Gormly Gormly & Yuhas.
4 minute read
July 19, 2011 |

How Am Law 100 Firms Use Twitter

Adrian Dayton writes that there was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse. In January, the Time Blawg blog noted that many of the largest U.K. firms had never sent a single tweet, and Dayton saw a similar trend in the U.S., in December. How have things changed since then?
28 minute read
July 20, 2011 |

Tweet Surrender

There was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse, but that seems to be changing, at least for some firms. Most of the firms on the AmLaw 100 have Twitter accounts - 78% have at least one firm account. But what do they do with it?
30 minute read
July 13, 2011 |

How are AmLaw 100 firms using Twitter?

Twitter presents one more platform for law firms to build their reputations.
31 minute read
July 01, 2009 |

Arbitration Scorecard: Treaties

A listing of investment treaty arbitrations active in 2007-2008 in which at least $100 million was in controversy. Expanded for the Web.
71 minute read
July 29, 2005 |

Broadband Verdict Second Major Loss for Enron Task Force

The Enron Task Force took a major hit when a federal trial in the Enron Broadband trial acquitted defendants of some criminal charges and ended with a hung jury on other charges. The verdict was the second major blow for the Enron Task Force, following the U.S. Supreme Court upset of an obstruction-of-justice conviction against Arthur Andersen, Enron's old accounting firm. The latest verdict comes as prosecutors prepare a criminal case against former Enron execs, including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.
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