Publication: Law.com

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

IP Roundup: Debating Bad Patents, Not Patent Trolls

The Litigation DailyPatent trolls have been the subject of increasing debate, but should we be focusing on bad patents instead? That's the interesting question posed at a recent panel discussion on patent-assertion entities at Yale Law School.This article ... [Published Law.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Patent Troll, Yale Law School, Litigation

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Ugliness Inside the Am Law 100—Part II

In Part I of this series, I explored the possibility that a key metric$average partner profits$has lost much of its value as a measurement of anything meaningful about big law firms. Within equity partnerships of eat-what-you-kill firms, the explosive ... [Published Law.com - 13 hours ago]

Entities: William Henderson, Rainmaker, Business Plan, PDF

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Ropes Settles Age Discrimination Suit With Ex-Partner

Ropes & Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm.In a one-page stipulation ... [Published Law.com - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Ropes & Gray, LLP, Bettina Plevan, Discriminatory

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Happy Birthday Iqbal! A Q&A with Alexander Reinert

The Litigation DailyFour years after the Supreme Court landed the second part of its one-two punch in Twombly and Iqbal, we caught up with the lawyer whose civil rights case on behalf of a Pakistani detainee ultimately changed the face of pleading-stage ... [Published Law.com - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Litigation, Civil Rights, Detainee

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Trial Founders on 'Personality Issues' Between Judge, Counsel

Concluding that a judge's tendency to "interrupt, patronize, and admonish" an attorney deprived the lawyer's client of a fair medical malpractice trial, a New York appellate court has ordered a retrial before another judge. The panel wrote that the conflict, ... [Published Law.com - 16 hours ago]

Entities: MALPRACTICE

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Plastics

3-D Printing: The Next Big Thing in IP Law?

3-D printing technology, which makes it possible to create an item by simply downloading a design file and printing it out as a plastic object, is likely to trigger legal conflicts surrounding copyrights, trademarks and patents. Although it's too soon ... [Published Law.com - 16 hours ago]

Entities: 3D Printing, Patent, Plastics

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

Graham Harris

QC Admitted for Appeal in Hong Kong Public Misconduct Case

A Hong Kong court has permitted a senior U.K. barrister to act on a criminal appeal over the objections of the prosecution and the Hong Kong Bar Association.Clare Montgomery QC of London's Matrix Chambers had applied for admission to the Hong Kong Bar ... [Published Law.com - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, Graham Harris, John Wong, Clare Montgomery, Thomas Kwok

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Judge Vacates Ropes Client's Double Murder Conviction

Ropes counsel Ryan MaloneAs Ropes & Gray counsel Ryan Malone got out of a cab and headed into the Washington, D.C., office of a client for a meeting on May 8, he felt his phone buzz. The call, it turned out, was one he'd been hoping to get since joining ... [Published Law.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Ryan Malone, Edward Dwyer, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, David Stewart

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Cleary, Linklaters Advise as Citi Sheds Brazil Assets

Citigroup has agreed to sell its Brazilian non-banking credit card and consumer finance unit to S$o Paulo-based Ita$ Unibanco in a cash deal worth $1.38 billion.Announced Wednesday, the deal would see Ita$ Unibanco acquire Citi's Credicard unit, which ... [Published Law.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Unibanco, Linklaters LLP, Brazil, Citigroup Inc

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

The Careerist: More Women Now Take Hubby's Name

Facebook finds that a vast majority$65 percent$of women in their 20s and 30s take their husband's names. And even more women do so in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. "It reflects that for the married female population, keeping your maiden name is so last decade." ... [Published Law.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Feminism, 20th century, JavaScript

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

First Person: Working to Help Others Leave Crime Behind

Earlier this year, while standing before a group of 100 men imprisoned at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., I was struck by the remarkable full-circle opportunity ALM (the parent company and publisher of The Am Law Daily), through its support ... [Published Law.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Equal Justice Works, Criminal, nonviolent

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Amarchand Recruits Delhi Partner

Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. has hired a new partner for its corporate practice in New Delhi. Nikhil Narayanan is joining the Indian law firm from the London office of White & Case, where he was senior associate. Narayanan advises on ... [Published Law.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: White & Case, New Delhi (India), Afren PLC, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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...The panel wrote that the conflict, which occured "at all phases of the trial," often in front of the jury, "unnecessarily injected personality issues into the case, which militated against a fair trial."

Trial Founders on 'Personality Issues' Between Judge, Counsel [Published Law.com - 16 hours ago]

...But the judge rejected another argument by Harris based on the fact that the case had attracted significant publicity and media attention. "I would think that it would be a rare case indeed in which the identity of the personalities involved could be a factor in favour of admission of overseas counsel" he wrote. The Hong Kong court's decision comes a month after a Singapore court rejected a senior British barrister, Jonathan Caplan QC, for a defense...

QC Admitted for Appeal in Hong Kong Public Misconduct Case [Published Law.com - 18 hours ago]

Francisco Aristeguieta, CEO of Citi Latin America said in a statement that Brazil remains "an essential part of Citi's Latin American footprint and global network." The financial services giant expects the sale to result in nearly $300 million in after-tax gains once the deal closes

Cleary, Linklaters Advise as Citi Sheds Brazil Assets [Published Law.com - May 17 2013]

...And even more women do so in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. "It reflects that for the married female population, keeping your maiden name is so last decade." Did you hear that$"keeping your maiden name is so last decade"?! I guess that makes me officially stuck in the 20th century...

The Careerist: More Women Now Take Hubby's Name [Published Law.com - May 17 2013]

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