Copyright Damages – Domain Name Registration Information Affects the Willful Infringement Analysis

Copyright Damages – Domain Name Registration Information Affects the Willful Infringement Analysis

When it comes to claims of cybersquatting, it is relatively understood that providing false Whois contact information is relevant to the bad faith determination under the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). However, it may be less well-known that providing false contact information may also [...]

20 Ways to Link Dispersed Legal Departments

20 Ways to Link Dispersed Legal Departments

With technology, a legal department can speak with a single voice, think with a single mind, and act like a partnership even with lawyers dispersed around the world. Consultant Rees W. Morrison discusses 20 techniques that increase coherence and effectiveness in a spread-out department.
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After Delays, KLA Backdating Suit Settles

After Delays, KLA Backdating Suit Settles

Former KLA-Tencor Corp. executives have agreed to settle a lawsuit over stock option backdating after four years of torturous litigation, according to a court filing Monday. About $33 million in cash will be paid by the executives and the California company’s insurer to KLA, according to lawyers briefed on the [...]

N.Y. Appellate Panel Affirms Suit Over Alleged Promise to Pay Client’s Fee

N.Y. Appellate Panel Affirms Suit Over Alleged Promise to Pay Client’s Fee

An attorney who conveys an alleged agreement to cover the legal costs of another lawyer’s client can be held liable for unpaid fees, a unanimous New York appellate court panel ruled Tuesday. The decision allows the firm of DePetris & Bachrach to pursue claims [...]

Panel: Senate Filibuster of Judicial Nominees Not Going Away Soon

Panel: Senate Filibuster of Judicial Nominees Not Going Away Soon

Lawmakers have decried the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations, but anyone frustrated with the process shouldn’t expect a quick change, a panel of Senate experts said Tuesday. Makan Delrahim, now a Brownstein Hyatt partner, saw how “brutal” the process can be for nominees [...]

20 Ways to Link Dispersed Legal Departments

20 Ways to Link Dispersed Legal Departments

With technology, a legal department can speak with a single voice, think with a single mind, and act like a partnership even with lawyers dispersed around the world. Consultant Rees W. Morrison discusses 20 techniques that increase coherence and effectiveness in a spread-out department.
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20 Ways to Link [...]

Lehman to Judge: Make the Examiner’s Report Public

Lehman to Judge: Make the Examiner’s Report Public

Lehman Brothers and its lawyers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges sent a clear message this week to the judge hearing Lehman’s bankruptcy case: Make public the full report about Lehman’s demise. In a motion filed Monday by Weil’s Harvey Miller, Lehman says it has cooperated fully with the [...]

6th Circuit Finds Limits on Religious School’s Freedom to Fire

6th Circuit Finds Limits on Religious School’s Freedom to Fire

Religious schools don’t have a free pass to ignore a key federal employment law based on a “ministerial exception.” At least not in the 6th Circuit, according to a ruling Tuesday in a case of first impression. Kindergarten teacher Cheryl Perich says she was unlawfully fired [...]

Author of Accusatory E-Mails Can Stay Masked, Judge Rules in Libel Suit

Author of Accusatory E-Mails Can Stay Masked, Judge Rules in Libel Suit

Failure to make a prima facie case that an anonymous e-mail was defamatory is grounds to quash a subpoena seeking the writer’s identity, a New Jersey appellate court says. No plaintiff “is entitled to an order unmasking an anonymous author when the statements in [...]

Sharp-Tongued Judges Get a Scolding

Sharp-Tongued Judges Get a Scolding

Two New Jersey trial judges have been reprimanded for making derogatory comments touching on the alienage, ethnicity, race and honesty of physical ailments of litigants and lawyers appearing before them. Among a litany of incidents laid out in court papers, James Citta compared a criminal defendant to O.J. Simpson and ridiculed [...]

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