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Some of the last remaining lawyers at Dewey & LeBoeuf packed up their belongings and turned in their BlackBerries and security passes Tuesday. Meanwhile, lawsuits against Dewey are starting to pile up. So far, suits have been filed over the firm's pension plans, a lack of termination notice and payment for janitorial service.See also: Dewey Makes New York Headquarters Closing Official With Notice to State
The so-called "smartphone wars" involving patent lawsuits are just part of the "natural ebb and flow of technology development" and not a fundamental problem with patents or the patents system, the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told a congressional committee today.
For the first time, Corporate Counsel has chosen four Best Legal Departments as winners in its annual competition. The winners range from a department with 140 attorneys to a department with just one. This year, size really didn't matter. What did count: strong leaders who are passionate about what they do; the creation of systems to make legal departments more efficient; and a shared belief and teamwork on the part of committed colleagues.
An attorney who faced seven years in prison for soliciting clients and accepting retainer fees after he had been disbarred has been sentenced to 180 days in county jail and three years' probation. Gerald Lionel Garcia-Barron, who allegedly met with clients in coffeehouses, also agreed to pay $7,200 in restitution.
One lawyer criticized it as an "in-between procedure." Another attorney called it a "bench thingie." The judge herself called it a "not-trial trial." The proceeding is a combination of extensive oral arguments and live testimony that a New York judge has ordered instead of a full trial in a suit over MBIA's restructuring.
The chances of convincing the Supreme Court to grant review in a criminal case are astronomically low. So an increasing number of petitioners are making their pitch to the Court with high-powered amicus curiae groups on their side. The latest example is a full-court press that has been mounted in a high-profile immigration case.
A federal judge in Brooklyn has approved a $3 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and former Morgan Stanley executive Garth Peterson, who has pleaded guilty to secretly acquiring real estate for himself and a Chinese official, who in turn steered business to Morgan Stanley.
U.S. District Judge James Gwin in Cleveland finally issued a big decision over the weekend in an Ohio county prosecutor's case against the Mortgage Electronic Registry System and a gaggle of big banks. But it wasn't the ruling the defendants had been waiting for.
In some ways, there was no more clarity by Day 21 of the Oracle vs. Google trial than there was nearly two years ago when Oracle sued over the use of Java technology in Google's Android mobile operating system. The possibility of retrial looms, but whether it would be styled in Google's or Oracle's favor is another question as yet unanswered.
Given U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan's previous rulings in Chevron's racketeering case against plaintiffs lawyer Steven Donziger and others, it was no surprise that he refused to grant a motion to dismiss the case outright. But Kaplan did toss related claims of fraud and tortious interference.
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