| The Legal Ins and Outs of Post-Disaster FEMA Aid | Top |
| As the post-Irene cleanup continues, former Federal Emergency Management Administration GC and FEMA Law Associates founder Ernest Abbott discusses the lawyer's role in disaster-related contracts and reimbursements. |
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| Senator Al Franken Continues to Pursue Rating-Agency Reform Measures | Top |
| Leaving it to David Letterman and Jon Stewart to make jokes about the ups and downs of credit-rating agencies like Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch, Minnesota Senator Al Franken is calling for serious oversight of the raters. |
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| Quinn Emanuel Opens D.C. Office to Be Closer to ITC | Top |
| Litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is starting a new office in D.C. to serve, at least initially, one purpose: handling intellectually property matters before the International Trade Commission. |
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| The Crowning Achievements of Miss Universe GC Andrea Berner | Top |
| What other general counsel job involves rubbing elbows with the world's most beautiful people and taking work-related trips to such destinations as Las Vegas and São Paulo? |
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| Despite Old Ruling, Chevron Cleared to Challenge Ecuadorean Courts | Top |
| Chevron is not judicially estopped from challenging the fairness of the Ecuadorean judicial system as it fights the enforcement of a multi-billion dollar environmental damage award, Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has ruled. |
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| Ruling Leaves Silicon Valley Lawyers Wondering Whether 'Practicality' Means 'Patentable' | Top |
| The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in CyberSource v. Retail Decisions leaves room for debate about what kinds of business methods can be patented, thanks to one word: practicality. |
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| 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?" |
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| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011: IPv6 | Top |
| The third in a series of columns exploring the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, circa 2011: The cloud; data security in the new world of recreational hacking; IPv6; and the new rules for gTLDs, a quartet that keeps in-house lawyers awake at night. |
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| Examining the Evolving 'Power' of Today's General Counsel | Top |
| A new study by University of Oxford Saïd Business School professor Mari Sako probes the disruptive forces at play in a business environment that is changing the power profile of GCs in an array of industries. |
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| 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. |
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| From the Experts: Register Before You Leap | Top |
| Many companies and their in-house counsel comment on China's inability and unwillingness to protect foreign companies' trademark rights. In most cases, companies fail to ask the most important and basic question: Do they really have a trademark in China? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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