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- Apple wins one battle in Android wars, as ITC bars importation of infringing HTC phones
- D.C. Circuit Divided Over Fee Dispute In Clean Air Act Case
- Dreier Trustee's Lawsuit Proceeds Against Westford
- Amid Antitrust Fight, AT&T Drops T-Mobile Deal
- Supreme Court to Hear Healthcare Arguments Over Three-Day Period in March
- How to Earn My GC Business
- John Green on Improving the User Experience
- Recorder Roundtable: Employment Law
- Janet Day on Law Firm IT 'Nirvana'
- The 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey
- Madoff Victim Is Rebuffed in Bid for Reduction of Bank Service Fee
- Deal Boomlet Signals Happy Holidays for Some Corporate Lawyers
- Kessler Topaz and Prickett Jones Win $300 Million Fee Award in Grupo Mexico Suit
- DOJ Records $3B In False Claims Act Settlements Last Year
- Desmarais's Company Sues Retailers for Infringement over Merchandise Tracking Technology
- Mericle Settles 'Kids-for-Cash' Suit for $17.75 Mil.
- Bernstein Liebhard and Wilmer Suffer for Disclosure Failure in Citi Mutual Funds Suit
- With $8.5 Billion BofA Settlement Still Up in the Air, Gibbs & Bruns Sets Sights on JPMorgan
- Justice Watch: First Rothstein civil trial a case of 'greed v. greed'
| Apple wins one battle in Android wars, as ITC bars importation of infringing HTC phones | Top |
| The International Trade Commission handed Apple a major victory on Monday, finding that Android phones made by HTC infringe one of Apple's patents. The ITC commissioners ruled that all infringing HTC phones will be barred from being imported to the U.S. starting in April. The HTC fight is just one front in a wider patent war between Apple and rival smartphone companies, including Motorola Mobility Holdings and Samsung, over the technology. But it's the first case to go from trial to final determination. | |
| D.C. Circuit Divided Over Fee Dispute In Clean Air Act Case | Top |
| The lawyers for the Native American tribes and associations that participated in a challenge of rules controlling mercury emissions from power plants are entitled to legal fees and costs for participating in the litigation, a divided D.C. Circuit said today. | |
| Dreier Trustee's Lawsuit Proceeds Against Westford | Top |
| A bankruptcy judge has allowed a $137 million suit filed by the trustee handling the bankruptcy estate of imprisoned ex-lawyer Marc Dreier to go forward against hedge fund Westford Asset Management, a net winner in Dreier's Ponzi scheme. However, the judge has limited the scope of the recovery the trustee can seek. | |
| Amid Antitrust Fight, AT&T Drops T-Mobile Deal | Top |
| AT&T has announced that the company is abandoning its planned $39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA, a decision that comes just days after asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to postpone antitrust proceedings.Related story: For more background on the case, see AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Is Officially Dead | |
| Supreme Court to Hear Healthcare Arguments Over Three-Day Period in March | Top |
| The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday released its March argument calendar, which sets arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for three days in the final week of March's two-week argument session. The Court will hear only health care arguments on those three days. | |
| How to Earn My GC Business | Top |
| Four in-house counsel discuss how firms can get their business and what they expect from outside attorneys. | |
| John Green on Improving the User Experience | Top |
| John Green, CIO of Baker Donelson, speaks at ILTA with LTN's editor in chief, Monica Bay, about an initiative to improve the user experience at his firm by tracking and mapping every application in use using the Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence software. | |
| Recorder Roundtable: Employment Law | Top |
| Four experts discussed recent developments in employment law at a Recorder Roundtable on Nov. 9 in San Francisco. | |
| 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 2011 Law Firm Billing Survey | Top |
| For the third year in a row, law firms showed restraint with hourly rate increases, with the average firmwide billing rate increasing by 4.4 percent during 2011, according to The National Law Journal's annual billing survey of the 250 largest law firms in the United States. | |
| Madoff Victim Is Rebuffed in Bid for Reduction of Bank Service Fee | Top |
| A federal judge has dismissed a class action filed against Standard Chartered Bank by investors whose money ended up in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, finding Standard Chartered was right to charge fees based on the face values of investors' accounts even though the values turned out to be fraudulent. | |
| Deal Boomlet Signals Happy Holidays for Some Corporate Lawyers | Top |
| Though global M&A activity is still struggling to catch up to 2007 levels, a recent flurry of transactions -- including two billion-dollar deals announced Friday -- shows that some corporate lawyers are shaking off the economic doldrums and getting a head start on what they hope will be a busy 2012. | |
| Kessler Topaz and Prickett Jones Win $300 Million Fee Award in Grupo Mexico Suit | Top |
| Kessler Topaz and Prickett Jones have won a 15 percent fee for their work on a shareholder derivative suit that resulted in a $1.9 billion judgment against Grupo Mexico. Equating to nearly $35,000 an hour, the award is believed to be the largest ever by the Delaware Court of Chancery. | |
| DOJ Records $3B In False Claims Act Settlements Last Year | Top |
| The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday that it recorded more than $3 billion in settlements and judgments in fraud cases against the government in 2011, pushing the total amount covered since January 2009 to $8.7 billion. The bulk of the $3 billion flowed from the whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act. | |
| Desmarais's Company Sues Retailers for Infringement over Merchandise Tracking Technology | Top |
| In its biggest round of litigation yet, John Desmarais' patent licensing company has filed suit against nine major retailers, including PepsiCo and Macy's. Round Rock Research claims the retailers infringed five patents relating to radio frequency identification technology, which is used to track merchandise. | |
| Mericle Settles 'Kids-for-Cash' Suit for $17.75 Mil. | Top |
| Robert K. Mericle, the builder of two juvenile detention facilities who allegedly paid millions in "finder's fees" to two former Luzerne County, Pa., judges, has agreed to settle his portion of a civil suit brought by a class of juvenile plaintiffs for $17.75 million. | |
| Bernstein Liebhard and Wilmer Suffer for Disclosure Failure in Citi Mutual Funds Suit | Top |
| Three months after a federal judge issued a scathing order blasting the lawyers on both sides of a securities class action against Citigroup and its Smith Barney unit, the judge has dropped Bernstein Liebhard as lead plaintiffs counsel. And on the defense side, Citi appears to have demoted WilmerHale as lead outside counsel. | |
| With $8.5 Billion BofA Settlement Still Up in the Air, Gibbs & Bruns Sets Sights on JPMorgan | Top |
| Few took notice last year when Gibbs & Bruns began laying the groundwork for what eventually became an $8.5 billion settlement with Bank of America over hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities. Now the firm has picked JPMorgan as its second target, and this time everybody is paying attention. | |
| Justice Watch: First Rothstein civil trial a case of 'greed v. greed' | Top |
| After a month of testimony and evidence, jurors in the first trial of any kind in the wake of Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme have been told by some of Florida's most seasoned litigators to make an unenviable choice: Side with either an unscrupulous bank or money-hungry investors. | |
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