In a time of increasing regulatory risk, global complexity and shareholder activism, the role of the corporate general counsel in the boardroom has never been more important. Yet, companies have been slow to recruit general counsels or seasoned attorneys to serve as independent directors.
Given the demands our profession makes on our time, our attention, our energy and the stress that places on our personal relationships, the divorce rate among lawyers likely rivals that of any other profession. Can you handle your own divorce?
Supreme Court: Findings on Likelihood of Confusion by TTAB
Federal Circuit: Actual Delay Not Required For Reducing Patent Term Adjustment
Federal Circuit: No Lost Profits for Related Unpatented Products
The NLRB general counsel's July 29, 2014, ruling that McDonald's is a joint employer of those who work for its roughly 14,000 franchised restaurants in the United States continues to send ripples through both the legal and business worlds.
Bankrupt Festival Organizer Can Recover Buyout Payment It Made to Co-Founder
A former Facebook employee is suing the company for gender discrimination and harassment, claiming her supervisor belittled her at work and asked why she 'did not just stay home and take care of her child.'
A suit by two former New Jersey-based employees of Anheuser-Busch ' claiming they were wrongfully discharged based on messages from their personal devices that were transferred to a company tablet ' is headed for federal court.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said she didn't want February's hearing in a privacy suit against Hulu LLC to feel like 'a wake.' But the Northern District of California judge put the case on life support, at the very least, indicating that she's leaning toward knocking out the remaining claims in a 2011 suit under the Video Privacy Protection Act.
A federal judge has ordered a litigious adult website to pay $5.6 million in attorney fees and costs under the Copyright Act, saying its motives for suing Giganews Inc. and Livewire Services Inc. had more to do with creating a tax write-off for its owner than with protecting its copyrights.
If there really is a'death squad for patents, it may not be found at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. A more likely location is the Plano, TX, office of David O'Dell, chairman of Haynes and Boone's patent trials practice group.
