The latest from Corporate Counsel
- Cigna's GC Talks About the Law Department's Role in Health Care Reform
- Business Regulations Provide Key Context for Obama's Jobs Speech
- 'Massive' Discovery Delays Former WellCare GC's Criminal Trial
- Texas Court Says Client Wins When Fee Agreement is Ambiguous
- Work of Administrative Law Judges Generates Concern About Disparities
- Judge Calls His Own Expert at Oracle/Google Patent Trial
- Trademark Holders Face an Explicit Problem With .XXX Web Domain
- Back to School With Ivy Tech's Corporate College Initiative
- Xe Services Deputy GC is Armed and Ready for Compliance Battles
- From the Experts: To Appeal or Not to Appeal, That is the Question
- Making Your Privacy Policy Comprehensive and Comprehensible
- Moves: Nicholas Eldred Goes from BBC GC to Christie's Counsel
- Wal-Mart Associate GC Joseph West Moving on to Lead MCCA
- Q&A: Incoming Recording Industry Chief Sherman Targets Piracy
- Moves: Kristin Campbell Makes Herself at Home at Hilton Worldwide
- Drinker Biddle's Gregg Melinson Going In-House at HP
- Best Legal Department 2011 Video: Wellpoint
| Cigna's GC Talks About the Law Department's Role in Health Care Reform | Top |
| At least one sector of the U.S. economy is showing strong vital signs: the health care industry. Nearly 25 percent of jobs created in the last year have been health care positions, which is good news for Nicole Jones, Cigna's new GC. | |
| Business Regulations Provide Key Context for Obama's Jobs Speech | Top |
| President Obama's Thursday-night speech is expected to touch on measures such as stimulus spending and payroll tax cuts, while also addressing the 'R word' that has tongues wagging in Washington: Regulations. | |
| 'Massive' Discovery Delays Former WellCare GC's Criminal Trial | Top |
| Citing the large volume of discovery materials presented by prosecutors, a federal judge in Tampa postponed until next year the criminal trial of Thaddeus M.S. Bereday, the ousted general counsel of WellCare Health Plans, Inc., along with four other former company execs. | |
| Texas Court Says Client Wins When Fee Agreement is Ambiguous | Top |
| Attorneys should take a hard look at their fee agreements with clients to make sure they are crystal clear and mistake free. Otherwise, according to the Texas Supreme Court, lawyers risk not getting paid. | |
| Work of Administrative Law Judges Generates Concern About Disparities | Top |
| The Social Security Administration is encountering growing skepticism about the performance of its administrative law judges, who scrutinize hundreds of thousands of petitions for disability benefits each year. | |
| Judge Calls His Own Expert at Oracle/Google Patent Trial | Top |
| U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup has appointed an expert to testify on damages in Oracle America Inc.'s closely watched suit against Google Inc., which claims the Android mobile operating system violates Java-related patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems Inc. | |
| Trademark Holders Face an Explicit Problem With .XXX Web Domain | Top |
| As ICANN's expansion of top-level internet domains goes into effect, the keepers of corporate trademarks are going to need to have an unusual conversation in the next few weeks: "What should we do about the .xxx domain?" | |
| Back to School With Ivy Tech's Corporate College Initiative | Top |
| As vice president and general counsel of Indiana's Ivy Tech Community College, Susan Brooks has been a key player in the Corporate College initiative, which trains students according to the needs of local employers. | |
| Xe Services Deputy GC is Armed and Ready for Compliance Battles | Top |
| Suzanne Folsom is deputy general counsel and the first chief regulatory/compliance officer for Xe Services, the private security company and military contractor formerly called Blackwater Worldwide. She is no stranger to rebuilding shaky companies and battling compliance demons. | |
| From the Experts: To Appeal or Not to Appeal, That is the Question | Top |
| When handed an adverse patent application decision, the cost, time, and likelihood of success become the basic considerations for deciding whether to appeal the examiner's decision. Given there are already 20,000 undecided appeals hanging in limbo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the decision to appeal must be made strategically. | |
| Making Your Privacy Policy Comprehensive and Comprehensible | Top |
| Most businesses collect and use personal information every day, and make privacy promises while doing so. Unfortunately, the FTC has found that most corporate privacy policies are "incomprehensible," and that "consumers typically do not read, let alone understand" these privacy disclosures. | |
| Moves: Nicholas Eldred Goes from BBC GC to Christie's Counsel | Top |
| Stepping from the telly to the auction block, Nicholas Eldred is departing his general counsel post at the British Broadcasting Corporation to become group general counsel at Christie's, the international auctioneer. | |
| Wal-Mart Associate GC Joseph West Moving on to Lead MCCA | Top |
| Joseph West, associate general counsel for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is leaving his post to become president and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, effective September 12. | |
| Q&A: Incoming Recording Industry Chief Sherman Targets Piracy | Top |
| In September, the Recording Industry Association of America gets a new leader, Cary Sherman, who has been the group's president for the past 10 years after serving a previous stint as its general counsel. | |
| Moves: Kristin Campbell Makes Herself at Home at Hilton Worldwide | Top |
| Recently, Hilton Worldwide has moved its HQ from Beverly Hills to the suburbs of Washington, D.C.; grown exponentially in emerging markets like Saudi Arabia and China; and hired a new general counsel, Kristin Campbell. | |
| Drinker Biddle's Gregg Melinson Going In-House at HP | Top |
| Drinker Biddle & Reath partner Gregg Melinson talks about his cross-country move from Pennsylvania to California, to serve as Hewlett Packard's deputy general counsel and vice president of global government affairs. | |
| Best Legal Department 2011 Video: Wellpoint | Top |
| CorpCounsel.com reporter Shannon Green talks to general counsel John Cannon from Best Legal Department 2011 Finalist Wellpoint. | |
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