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A Washington-based news organization that covers the telecom and media industries is suing a Michigan company for as much as $19.5 million for allegedly making unauthorized copies of at least 130 editions of a newsletter to distribute to present and former employees.
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by a former Mayer Brown associate, in which she claims the firm fired her because she is black, can proceed. At the same time, the judge cleared the way for counterclaims that accuse the associate of improperly taking confidential documents prior to her departure from the firm.
The Supreme Court is guilty of a broad "failure to communicate" to the public it serves, constitutional scholar and law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said at a symposium Friday. And this failure extends beyond the Court's stubborn resistance to allowing camera coverage of its oral arguments, he said.
Edwards Wildman Palmer announced Monday the election of a new leadership team triumvirate, which is spread between offices in Chicago, London and Hartford, Conn. The change comes against the backdrop of a suit that two former partners filed this month against the firm and current managing partner Walter Reed.
The Securities and Exchange Commission offers no-admit settlements in about 99 percent of its cases. But companies aren't the only defendants to benefit from these pacts. So do individuals, especially in-house counsel, by avoiding the nasty collateral consequences.
Which law firms have the strongest brands in the United States, the world's largest legal market? According to a study released this week by brand research company Acritas, Skadden leads the big-firm pack, followed by Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin, and Wachtell.
Two Japanese automotive parts suppliers have agreed to pay a combined $548 million in criminal fines for their roles in price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracies in the sale of products to automobile manufacturers in the United States, in what the Justice Department describes as the largest criminal probe its antitrust division has ever pursued. Yazaki Corp. will pay $470 million for the scheme, marking the second-largest criminal fine for an antitrust violation. DENSO Corp. agreed to pay $78 million.
A survey of more than 60,000 people shows that 54 percent of respondents expressed no preference between having a male or female boss. The study also notes that employee attitudes regarding female bosses have steadily improved over the years. On the other hand, 33 percent of people in the recent survey said they prefer male bosses.Visit The Careerist
Aaron Shorr, firmwide trial consultant for Skadden Arps, talks with John Cleaves, of Latham & Watkins, about the technology that helps get his firm through trials -- both large and small.Visit Law Technology News
A man who enticed a 15-year-old girl online, lied to her about his age, went to Connecticut for a sexual rendezvous and then brought her to New York for more sex was appropriately assessed three two-level sentencing enhancements, a divided panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held.
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