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- Pillsbury Joins Off-Siting Trend, Will Move Staff to Nashville
- Proof in Murder of Law Clerk Is Found to Be Overwhelming
- U.S. and U.K. Corporate Counsel See Less Litigation, More Regulation
- In-house Counsel on All Sides Under Pressure on Solyndra Loan
- Assured Guaranty Hits Credit Suisse with Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit, Claims $1.8 Billion in Loans Were Defective
- Janet Day on Law Firm IT 'Nirvana'
- The Final Rothstein Auction
- Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing
- Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley
- ATM Users Sue Visa, MasterCard Over Fees
- Federal Circuit Trims $107 Million in Interest from Plavix Patent Judgment Against Apotex, Leaves $442.2 Million Damages Award Intact
- Circuit Faults Tasings, But Says Officers Can't Be Sued
- State attorneys general urge Senate to confirm Cordray as head of CFPB
- Obama Names Munger Partner for 9th Circuit Seat
- 3rd Circuit Applies 'Later-Served' Rule to Removal Petitions
- Feds let former judge's fraud conviction slide
- Facebook Threat Charges Get Green Light; Trial Opens
- Software company may maintain two separate suits against DOJ
- Texas Jury Rejects Alcatel-Lucent Patent Claims Against Online Retailers
- Actress Sues Amazon for Revealing Her Age on IMDb
- Fannie and Freddie Will Let Mortgage Servicers Hire Own Attorneys
| Pillsbury Joins Off-Siting Trend, Will Move Staff to Nashville | Top |
| Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has announced it will open a professional services center in Nashville, Tenn., with relocation of staff from the firm's 11 U.S. offices starting next fall. Pillsbury Nashville will ultimately have about 150 employees, focusing on IT, finance, new client intake, word processing and other non-legal services. Also relocating will be the firm's chief financial officer and its chief information officer, who will set up and run the center. | |
| Proof in Murder of Law Clerk Is Found to Be Overwhelming | Top |
| New York's highest court has upheld a college student's conviction for the murder of his father, a state court law clerk, and a near-fatal attack against his mother. The court said any errors in evidence admitted at trial were negated by the "overwhelming" totality of the other evidence. | |
| U.S. and U.K. Corporate Counsel See Less Litigation, More Regulation | Top |
| A Fulbright & Jaworski survey of 405 in-house lawyers shows 92 percent of U.S. respondents and 85 percent of U.K. respondents say they expect litigation to rise or stay the same in the next 12 months. Among those who expect more litigation, the top reason they cite is increased regulation. | |
| In-house Counsel on All Sides Under Pressure on Solyndra Loan | Top |
| In-house counsel at various government entities, up to and including the White House, are coming under increasing scrutiny by a House panel looking into the ill-fated federal loan provided to Solyndra, the California solar energy company that failed very publicly last month. | |
| Assured Guaranty Hits Credit Suisse with Mortgage-Backed Securities Suit, Claims $1.8 Billion in Loans Were Defective | Top |
| Monoline insurer Assured Guaranty sued Credit Suisse this week over $1.8 billion in mortgage securitizations that Assured insured before the subprime bubble burst. Unlike most of the monoline MBS cases brought by MBIA and others, the suit alleges breach of contract but not fraud. | |
| Janet Day on Law Firm IT 'Nirvana' | Top |
| LTN reporter Evan Koblentz speaks with Berwin Leighton Paisner CIO Janet Day about her "concept of nirvana," in which the consumerization of IT in law firms -- where lawyers use and maintain their favorite devices for work -- makes the help desk unnecessary. Koblentz and Day also discuss Hewlett-Packard's move to become more consumer-focused as Apple potentially becomes more business-focused. | |
| The Final Rothstein Auction | Top |
| The third and final auction of items from Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein features a stuffed lion, dozens of pricey shoes and dresses and a $3,000 Hello Kitty purse. | |
| Doug Caddell on Foley & Lardner's Freedom of Computing | Top |
| Doug Caddell, CIO at Foley & Lardner, speaks with LTN staff reporter Evan Koblentz at ILTA about his firm's policy of giving lawyers the freedom to buy the technology they need -- instead of dictating choices. Freedom of computing, he says, allows firms to focus more on business issues and less on infrastructure. | |
| Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Jonathan Turley | Top |
| When Jonathan Turley is not teaching at George Washington University Law School or blogging, he is a litigator whose cases can never be described as boring. In this video interview with Tony Mauro, Turley discusses his high-profile case on Utah's anti-polygamy law. | |
| ATM Users Sue Visa, MasterCard Over Fees | Top |
| Less than a week after independent ATM operators sued Visa and MasterCard over an alleged fee-fixing scheme, a class of ATM users has filed a similar lawsuit. The complaint doesn't say how many class members the suit could include, but given the national scope, the number could be in the millions. | |
| Federal Circuit Trims $107 Million in Interest from Plavix Patent Judgment Against Apotex, Leaves $442.2 Million Damages Award Intact | Top |
| In litigation over generic versions of the blood thinner Plavix, the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld a $442.2 million award against Apotex in a case brought by Sanofi-Aventis and a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb. But the divided court reversed a $107.9 million prejudgment interest award. | |
| Circuit Faults Tasings, But Says Officers Can't Be Sued | Top |
| In a pair of emotionally charged cases involving unarmed women being stunned with police Tasers after committing nominal infractions, the 9th Circuit said the women -- one of whom was pregnant -- suffered excessive force, but the officers were entitled to qualified immunity. | |
| State attorneys general urge Senate to confirm Cordray as head of CFPB | Top |
| Richard Cordray got a boost this week when 37 state and territorial attorneys general wrote the U.S. Senate, urging his confirmation as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Though a critical mass of Republican senators has vowed to block the nomination, the AGs who signed the letter include 10 Republicans. | |
| Obama Names Munger Partner for 9th Circuit Seat | Top |
| President Obama on Monday nominated Munger, Tolles & Olson partner Paul Watford to a newly vacant seat on the 9th Circuit. Watford would replace Judge Pamela Rymer, the George H.W. Bush appointee who passed away last month after a multiyear battle with cancer. | |
| 3rd Circuit Applies 'Later-Served' Rule to Removal Petitions | Top |
| In an issue that has split the federal circuits, the 3rd Circuit has ruled that, in cases where multiple defendants are served on different days, the defendants each have 30 days from the time they're served to file a notice of removal from state court to federal court. | |
| Feds let former judge's fraud conviction slide | Top |
| Despite spending four years pursuing a case that ultimately drove a Georgia judge from the bench, prosecutors say they won't oppose his effort, based on the U.S. Supreme Court's Skilling ruling, to have his 2009 federal fraud conviction set aside. | |
| Facebook Threat Charges Get Green Light; Trial Opens | Top |
| A man indicted for allegedly making threats on Facebook toward his estranged wife, his former co-workers and an unspecified kindergarten class was not committing a crime because his words were like the lyrics of an artist who raps an intent to commit violent acts, his attorney argued Monday. | |
| Software company may maintain two separate suits against DOJ | Top |
| A software company's Lanham Act case against the Justice Department in federal district court doesn't bar it from maintaining a separate case against the Justice Department in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for breach of license, the Federal Circuit has ruled. | |
| Texas Jury Rejects Alcatel-Lucent Patent Claims Against Online Retailers | Top |
| A federal jury in Texas not only tossed patent infringement claims brought by Alcatel-Lucent against online retailers Overstock.com and Newegg, but also invalidated one of the three patents Alcatel asserted in the case. | |
| Actress Sues Amazon for Revealing Her Age on IMDb | Top |
| An actress is suing Amazon.com for more than $1 million for revealing her age on its Internet Movie Database website and refusing to remove the reference when asked. If an up-and-coming actress is perceived to be "over-the-hill, i.e., approaching 40," the lawsuit says, it is nearly impossible to get work. | |
| Fannie and Freddie Will Let Mortgage Servicers Hire Own Attorneys | Top |
| Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dumping their law firm networks and instead will let mortgage servicers hire their own lawyers to process foreclosures. Fannie Mae's Retained Attorney Network currently includes 191 firms, some of which have been accused of "robo-signing" documents, losing records and levying inappropriate fees.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views | |
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