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Google will pay $125 million to authors and publishers to settle a copyright infringement dispute over the search engine's efforts to put books online. Reached after three years of wrangling, the settlement allows Google to go ahead with its project of digitizing millions of books.
In addition to the basic do's and don'ts this recruiting season, it's just as important that fall recruits take a hard look at their online personas. Your Facebook page and your personal blog speak volumes to a prospective employer. Keep it clean, or keep it off your resumé.
The recent failure of banks such as Washington Mutual and IndyMac has brought a return to prominence and heightened interest in the role and actions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. While many articles have been written seeking to explain and clarify the FDIC's role upon the failure of a bank, Jenner & Block attorneys Ross Bricker, Daniel Murray, Melissa Hinds and Laura Pelanek address a different perspective: the effect of failure on companies with service contracts with the failed bank.
Attorneys for a Fresno, Calif., paralegal accused of dismembering the body of a gang member don't have an explanation for the act, but they call the killing "textbook" self-defense. A defense attorney says the gang member forced his way into the home of Brian Waldron, who "did not have a chance" to call 911.
At least six U.K. firms have applied for new liberalized licenses to practice local law in Singapore, including Ashurst, DLA Piper, Herbert Smith and Norton Rose. Around five licenses are expected to be awarded under the system, which goes beyond the current local joint venture model that allows foreign firms to practice local law in restrictive alliances with local firms. Around 20 firms are thought to have applied for the licenses.
A former college instructor may proceed with a claim that he was denied tenure because school administrators disapproved of his conservative politics and support for President George W. Bush, and not because of deficiencies as an educator, a federal judge has ruled. Michael Filozof contends the tenure track he was on as a political science instructor at a community college was suddenly derailed in 2003, during a period of hot debate among students and faculty over the ramp-up to the war in Iraq.
Plaintiffs won in 56 percent of all state court civil trials in 2005 and were more likely to get a favorable verdict in bench than jury trials, according to a new Justice Department report released on Tuesday. Judges ruled in plaintiffs' favor in 68 percent of the cases, while juries favored plaintiffs 54 percent of the time. The study is the first nationally representative measure of general civil bench and jury trials in state courts.
A retired Philadelphia judge has been sued by his former brother-in-law for allegedly using judicial influence to have the man fired as a tipstaff and then allegedly falsely charged with forgery. Former Judge John J. Chiovero's brother-in-law alleges that he was targeted after he announced he was divorcing the judge's sister. Last week, Chiovero and other co-defendants filed a motion to dismiss the action -- which they called "patently frivolous" -- for lack of jurisdiction in federal court.
In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, lawyers and law firms have boosted their giving to Sen. Barack Obama, while slowing down contributions to Sen. John McCain, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the past two months, lawyers and law firms have increased their donations to Obama by 53 percent and now total $36.7 million. During the same period, lawyers and law firm contributions to McCain's campaign have increased by about 20 percent to a total of $9.6 million.
A New York attorney is not obliged to pay $52,000 a year in maintenance to his ex-wife even though he acknowledged crossing out a cohabitation clause freeing him to stop the payments from a copy of the separation agreement, a state judge has ruled. The husband stated that he crossed out the clause more than a year after he and his wife signed the agreement, knowing that "the modification was absolutely unenforceable." The judge discounted the wife's testimony that the change was made at the initial signing.
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