Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

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Name: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 reports

Lawsuit filed against Signal International for trafficking Indian workers in Mississippi,...

GULFPORT, Mississippi -- About 33 Indian guest workers have filed a lawsuit against Signal International LLC, saying they were tricked out of money and forced to work in barbaric conditions at the Pascagoula facility.The suit, being handled by law firm ... [Published Mississippi Press - May 21 2013]
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

AHFA Manufacturing Summit To Focus on On Healthcare Reform

Furniture Industry News Update - Furniture World MagazinePosted: 5/19/2013Article Summary: Greg Stancil, director of healthcare reform at Scott Insurance, Roanoke, Va., will help executives navigate the maze of reform measures to determine both short-term ... [Published Furniture World Magazine - May 20 2013]
First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Jim Cain also looking at Hagan race

Raleigh’s Jim Cain, former ambassador to Denmark and one-time president of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team, tells Roll Call he is taking a serious look at running in the Republican primary next year to challenge U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.“The race ... [Published Raleigh News & Observer - May 19 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Bandwidth’s Chris Matton Named Outstanding Corporate Counsel – Private Company for 2013 by the Triangle Business Journal

Bandwidth's Chris Matton is a philanthropist, father of two and accomplished Triangle business leader who is raising the bar for corporate legal excellence Bandwidth General Counsel Chris Matton with CEO David Morken Bandwidth - one of the Triangle’s ... [Published PRWeb - May 15 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Patton Boggs expands in Dubai

With the opening of a permanent office in Dubai, Patton Boggs LLP announced the arrival of three lawyers and a regional director of business development and marketing, who join Patton Boggs from Kilpatrick Townsend law firm as the inaugural team in the ... [Published The Oath - May 09 2013]
First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Littler, Edwards Wildman, MoFo, Venable: Business of Law

A second wave of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC lawyers, mostly associates, have left the firm for Littler Mendelson LLP as part of an earlier group of departures led by Don Prophete.Prophete, along with six partners whom the firm calls shareholders, ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 06 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Editorial: What is a fluid mark?

Back in 2008, Lisa Pearson of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in New York wrote an article for us on what she saw as an emerging trend: the increasingly dynamic use of trade marks, with brands not just evolving but deliberately distorting their key features ... [Published Managing IP - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Law firm sees jump in revenue thanks to Cobell settlement

| More on: Kilpatrick Townsend saw a 12.3 percent increase in revenue thanks to its role in the the $3.4 billion . A federal judge awarded $99 million in attorney's fees as part of the case. Some $85.3 million has already been paid to the firm, whose ... [Published Indianz - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Local lawyers stay busy with wage-and-hour lawsuits

Lawsuits and investigations of unpaid wages and other alleged off-the-clock work have been piling up for about five years in North Carolina, as I reported on Friday.But attorneys say those don’t tell the full story, because so many North Carolina companies ... [Published Triangle Business Journal - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Cybersecurity counsel to FBI director joins Hunton & Williams

Paul Tiao, a senior cybersecurity adviser to FBI Director Robert Mueller, has joined national law firm Hunton & Williams as a partner in the Washington office, the firm announced last week.Tiao is joining the firms privacy and data security practice at ... [Published Washington Post - Apr 29 2013]
First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

N.C. law firms climb revenue ladder

Several law firms with large North Carolina presences shot higher in . The big gainers were Kilpatrick Townsend and Ogletree Deakins, Atlanta-based firms that each have about 30 attorneys in Raleigh’s CapTrust building. Ogletree shot up to No. 97 on the ... [Published Triangle Business Journal - Apr 26 2013]
First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Shearman & Sterling, Latham, Kilpatrick: Business of Law

Shearman & Sterling LLP is closing its Dusseldorf and Munich offices, leaving the firm with one German office, in Frankfurt. The firm’s German corporate/mergers and acquisitions, finance/tax and disputes/arbitration work will be consolidated in Frankfurt, ... [Published BusinessWeek - Apr 25 2013]

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"One of the plaintiffs in the David case attempted to commit suicide. The fear of having to return back home and owing that much money for many of them was overbearing" Landers said
"A lot of standards-essential patents are being enforced without regard for what was really bargained for during the standard-setting process" Reed Smith partner Steven Baik, who represents Realtek, said. Whyte's ruling is a "novel step" in a judicial crackdown on that behavior, Baik said
According to the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center, the move represents an "unprecedented collaborative effort by several of the country's most prestigious law firms to prosecute, on a pro bono basis, multiple human trafficking lawsuits against Signal International and its network of recruiters and labor brokers."
...in a very unified way, these guestworkers would be unable to have their day in court," said Daniel Werner, SPLC Senior Supervising Attorney. "These cases seek justice for the victimized guestworkers and also send a strong message to other companies who might engage in this type of behavior. The lawsuits illustrate, in shocking detail, the abuse occurring within the nation's guestworker programs that are clearly in need of major reform."

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More Than 500 Indians Abused by Human Trafficki... [Published Houston Press - 16 hours ago]
Judge Bars Chipmaker From Seeking Injunction at... [Published The Recorder - May 21 2013]
Lawsuit filed against Signal International for ... [Published Mississippi Press - May 21 2013]
Atlanta firms join human trafficking case [Published New York Business Journal - May 21 2013]
Top U.S. Law Firms File Multiple Human Traffick... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - May 21 2013]
Illinois Court Favors Producer in Insurance Case [Published National Hog Farmer - May 20 2013]
Movers & shakers: May 20, 2013 [Published TheDeal.com - May 20 2013]
AHFA Manufacturing Summit To Focus on On Health... [Published Furniture World Magazine - May 20 2013]
SouthCoast business in brief - 9:15 pm [Published South Coast Today - May 19 2013]
Nonprofit Notebook: Hanes High class of 1954 to... [Published Winston-Salem Journal - May 19 2013]
Jim Cain also looking at Hagan race [Published Raleigh News & Observer - May 19 2013]
Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘Wit... [Published TechCrunch Europe - May 18 2013]
Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘Wit... [Published TechCrunch - May 18 2013]
Sullivan & Worcester LLP Adds Leading Energy Ta... [Published Sullivan & Worcester - May 17 2013]
Independent Bank (INDB) to Acquire Mayflower (M... [Published Street Insider - May 15 2013]
Bandwidth’s Chris Matton Named Outstanding Corp... [Published PRWeb - May 15 2013]
Independent Bank and Mayflower Bancorp to Merge [Published Citybizlist - May 14 2013]
Independent Bank Corp. and Mayflower Bancorp, I... [Published StockHouse USA - May 14 2013]
eMag Solutions Appoints Brandy Richardson as Se... [Published PRWeb - May 13 2013]
Moves 13 May [Published The Lawyer - May 13 2013]
Engineering firm 'too late' with unpaid fees cl... [Published Abu Dhabi National - May 12 2013]
American Red Cross Names Seven New Members to D... [Published TickerTech.com - May 09 2013]
Patton Boggs expands in Dubai [Published The Oath - May 09 2013]
The New York Times: Politics Played a Big Role ... [Published Indian Country Today Media Network - May 06 2013]
Littler, Edwards Wildman, MoFo, Venable: Busine... [Published BusinessWeek - May 06 2013]
Appointments: Week of May 6 [Published Washington Post - May 06 2013]
D.C. area appointments for the week of May 6 [Published Washington Post - May 05 2013]
Bicycle Coalition Inspired by Bogota and Copenh... [Published Global Atlanta - May 04 2013]
Public Notices - Master’s Sales [Published Columbia Star - May 03 2013]
Editorial: What is a fluid mark? [Published Managing IP - May 01 2013]
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Kallelse till extra bolagsstämma [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Apr 30 2013]
KALLELSE TILL ÅRSSTÄMMA I KANCERA AB (PUBL), 28... [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Apr 26 2013]
Notice to Annual General Meeting of shareholder... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Apr 19 2013]
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