Features
M. James Daley
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Laura Clark Fey
The dilemma confronted by corporate counsel involved in foreign litigation is whether to disclose personal information located in foreign countries with laws that severely restrict the processing and transfer of personal data and risk being punished there with civil and/or criminal penalties; or to filter out the personal data and risk being sanctioned in the U.S. for incomplete responses to e-discovery requests.
Features
Sandra Feldman
This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect from Aug. 1 through Oct. 1, including amendments to Delaware's corporation and LLC laws. It also looks at two recent decisions of interest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
Features
Steven F. Reich
This article examines the little-known and infrequently granted remedy of expungement in federal courts.
Features
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
If you have been thinking about entering the China market to diversify your revenue stream, here are some legal issues to consider.
Features
Rick J. Gibson, Jeffrey J. Jones, J. Todd Kennard
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Douglas M. Mansfield
Many auto dealer contracts prohibit "dualing," that is, operating competing linemakes out of the same facility. Under new legislation passed in some states, automobile manufacturers could be forced to allow dualing, notwithstanding any terms to the contrary in written agreements and trademark laws.
Features
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
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ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
The USPTO established the Peer Review Pilot Program (the "Pilot") to test whether "the organized collection and submission of documents together with comments by the public will produce better examination results by presenting prior art known by the public to the Examiner early in the prosecution." The USPTO is expected to publish a comprehensive report outlining the results and next steps.
Features
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
As obvious as this distaste for lawsuits may be to anyone who has ever been deposed, it nonetheless is often critical for businesses, and particularly technology firms, not only to be prepared to go (metaphorically) to war in the battlefield of the courtroom, but to actually take that step.
Features
Michael Eidel
This article discusses the applicable general principles and drafting considerations for some of the most frequently litigated boilerplate provisions: choice-of-law, forum selection, venue, jury trial waiver and attorney's fees.
Features
ALM Staff
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Law Journal Newsletters
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