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• Copyright Defendants, EFF Step Up to Defend Righthaven Counsel Against Sanctions
• Apple's Chief Patent Counsel Leaving By Year's End
• Accused Inside Trader May Dispute SEC Proceeding in Federal Court
• U.S. Tries to Remove Hip-Hop Mogul's Counsel in Drug Case
• Ninth Circuit: Grocers' Collusion Anti-Competitive but No Sherman Act Violation
• Brian Renken on Embracing Mobile Technology
• Tim Hart on Disruptive Technology
• Intellectual Ventures Turns to the Courts Again in Licensing Battle
• Sedgwick argues malpractice claim is time-barred
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Lawsuit: MBIA Suddenly Drops Merrill Fraud Case
• CHOP's Former Top Lawyer Set to Enter Guilty Plea
• Quinn Emanuel Takes Aim at Apple's Lawyers in Samsung Smartphone Patent Fight
• OCA Urges Up to 41% Pay Raise for Judges
• Dechert Seeks Dismissal of Government's False Claims Act Mortgage Suit Against Deutsche Bank
• Opinion Says Lawyers May Check Jurors' Online Activity
• Prosecutors Support Scott Bloch In Fight To Withdraw Guilty Plea
• 9th Circuit Hints That Free Speech Protects Wearing of Unearned Medals
• Circumstantial Evidence Enough to Argue Product Defect, Judge Says

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Copyright Defendants, EFF Step Up to Defend Righthaven Counsel Against Sanctions	Top
A federal judge is set to hold a hearing Thursday to rule on whether so-called "copyright troll" Righthaven and its in-house counsel should be sanctioned for misleading the court. In an odd twist, the defendant being sued by Righthaven has come forward to argue on behalf of the in-house lawyers.
Apple's Chief Patent Counsel Leaving By Year's End	Top
Richard "Chip" Lutton, widely credited with helping build Apple's patent portfolio, has confirmed reports that he's leaving at the end of the year. B.J. Watrous, a former deputy GC at Hewlett-Packard, is now listed as Apple's chief IP counsel on Watrous' LinkedIn profile.
Accused Inside Trader May Dispute SEC Proceeding in Federal Court	Top
A former Goldman Sachs board member can proceed with his claim that the SEC violated his constitutional rights by selecting administrative proceedings instead of suing him civilly as was done with 28 other defendants in the Galleon probe and related cases, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. Tries to Remove Hip-Hop Mogul's Counsel in Drug Case	Top
Federal prosecutors claim that prominent defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman was house counsel to a $10 million-a-year drug-trafficking enterprise run by hip-hop impresario James Rosemond, and are seeking to remove him from Rosemond's case for conflicts of interest.
Ninth Circuit: Grocers' Collusion Anti-Competitive but No Sherman Act Violation	Top
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to sanction a revenue-sharing deal that Southern California grocery chains made in anticipation of a labor-related strike -- but the court stopped just short of outlawing the practice.
Brian Renken on Embracing Mobile Technology	Top
Brian Renken, solution advisor at Dell, speaks with Monica Bay, LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, about the role of mobile technology in law practice and the expectations it creates in new recruits.
Tim Hart on Disruptive Technology	Top
Tim Hart, principal solution architect for McKesson, speaks with Monica Bay, LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, about how law firms and corporate counsel can exploit disruptive technology.
Intellectual Ventures Turns to the Courts Again in Licensing Battle	Top
Intellectual Ventures has filed a wide-ranging lawsuit accusing about a dozen companies, including Hynix Semiconductor, Dell and Wal-Mart Stores, of infringing patents used in semiconductor dynamic random access memory.
Sedgwick argues malpractice claim is time-barred	Top
A court-appointed receiver cleaning up after an alleged Ponzi scheme is barred by the statute of limitations from filing a $200 million malpractice suit against Sedgwick, the law firm argued in court papers filed Monday.
The Mystery of the Vanishing Lawsuit: MBIA Suddenly Drops Merrill Fraud Case	Top
For more than two years, Merrill Lynch fought off MBIA's claims that it fraudulently induced MBIA to issue $5.7 billion in credit default swap protection on collateralized debt obligations. Now that suit has quietly come to an end -- and the reason is murky.
CHOP's Former Top Lawyer Set to Enter Guilty Plea	Top
Roosevelt Hairston Jr., the former general counsel of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia charged last month with embezzling $1.7 million from the hospital, has signed a plea agreement and is set to officially enter a guilty plea at a hearing today.
Quinn Emanuel Takes Aim at Apple's Lawyers in Samsung Smartphone Patent Fight	Top
Representing Samsung, Quinn Emanuel is seeking to disqualify Apple's lawyers at Bridges & Mavrakakis, claiming that lawyers at the firm previously represented Samsung in substantially related patent litigation while working at Kirkland & Ellis.
OCA Urges Up to 41% Pay Raise for Judges	Top
Court administrators on Monday urged "an immediate and substantial" salary increase for 1,200 state judges who have not had a raise since January 1999, pressing for a raise of as much as 41 percent for state Supreme Court justices, who now make $136,700.
Dechert Seeks Dismissal of Government's False Claims Act Mortgage Suit Against Deutsche Bank	Top
Deutsche Bank is launching its first formal counterattack against the $1 billion False Claims Act suit filed by the federal government, arguing that it shouldn't be liable for the activity of its MortgageIT subsidiary.
Opinion Says Lawyers May Check Jurors' Online Activity	Top
Attorneys may monitor jurors through online social networks as long as they do not contact the jurors or in any way make their monitoring known to them, the New York County Lawyers' Association said in an ethics opinion last week.
Prosecutors Support Scott Bloch In Fight To Withdraw Guilty Plea	Top
Federal prosecutors this week told a federal trial judge that the government is siding with former Bush administration lawyer Scott Bloch in his bid to back out of his plea deal in a contempt case and start from scratch.
9th Circuit Hints That Free Speech Protects Wearing of Unearned Medals	Top
In a new challenge to the Stolen Valor Act, an Air Force veteran is asking the 9th Circuit to junk a provision that makes it a crime to wear a medal without "authorization." The panel seemed reluctant to drop the provision, but one judge appeared troubled by the statute's impact on free speech.
Circumstantial Evidence Enough to Argue Product Defect, Judge Says	Top
In a products liability case where the plaintiff is relying on the "malfunction theory," a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that the plaintiff's expert can rely solely on circumstantial evidence and a process of elimination to prove the existence of a defect.

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