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• Microsoft patent case may not compute with high court
• 3rd Circuit Applies Discovery Rule to Legal Malpractice Cases
• Falk Demands En Banc Rehearing on Facebook Settlement
• Former Solicitor General Paul Clement Signs Up to Defend Marriage Law
• Mayer Brown Can't Save Wells Fargo From Woodshed Walloping Over Tax Shelter
• Former Sutherland Partner Moves to Turn Suit Against D.C. into Class Action
• 11th Circuit Medicaid Ruling Helpful to States
• Chicago Firm Opens in S.F. With Laterals From Sedgwick, Long & Levit
• Worker May Be Disabled Despite Showing Up at Work, Circuit Says
• Defense Wins Verdict in $177 Mil. Oil Spill Case
• Prop 8 Opponents Defend Walker's Showing of Trial Video
• Details from Will Underscore Joe Flom's Charitable Nature
• 'Voluntary Departure' Under WARN Act Is Ripe for U.S. Supreme Court Review
• O'Melveny Program Helps New Parents Return to Firm

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Microsoft patent case may not compute with high court	Top
The Supreme Court seemed reluctant Monday to make it easier to challenge the validity of patents. At the same time, justices raised concerns about "bad" patents in the marketplace and a federal patent office too overwhelmed "to separate the sheep from the goats."
3rd Circuit Applies Discovery Rule to Legal Malpractice Cases	Top
A lawyer's assurances to his client that a hearing "went well" and there was "nothing to worry about" may act to toll a claim that the lawyer had botched the hearing by failing to call key witnesses, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Falk Demands En Banc Rehearing on Facebook Settlement	Top
Calling a 9th Circuit panel's opinion "profoundly at odds" with precedent, Howard Rice's Jerome Falk Jr. is pressing for a rehearing en banc on behalf of ConnectU's founders, who claim Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the site and procured a settlement by fraud.
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement Signs Up to Defend Marriage Law	Top
House Republicans have hired former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to lead their defense of the ban on federal recognition of same-sex marriage -- prompting House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to renew her push for an estimate of litigation costs.
Mayer Brown Can't Save Wells Fargo From Woodshed Walloping Over Tax Shelter	Top
The Federal Circuit has upheld a ruling that Wells Fargo, with assistance from its lawyers at King & Spalding, engaged in an abusive tax shelter when it tried to claim $115 million in tax deductions using a "SILO" leasing transaction.
Former Sutherland Partner Moves to Turn Suit Against D.C. into Class Action	Top
After a 2008 disorderly conduct arrest, Hamilton Fox III agreed to "post and forfeit." But the now-retired Sutherland partner claims the procedure is unconstitutional and is seeking to expand his suit against D.C. into a class action.
11th Circuit Medicaid Ruling Helpful to States	Top
On balance, an 11th Circuit ruling in a case closely watched by states, managed care organizations and children's advocates amounts to a win for the states, which had faced having outside doctors dictate certain Medicaid decisions.
Chicago Firm Opens in S.F. With Laterals From Sedgwick, Long & Levit	Top
Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson, a 90-lawyer Chicago firm specializing in insurance and labor and employment litigation, opened in San Francisco on Monday with seven partners and four associates, raided from several firms.
Worker May Be Disabled Despite Showing Up at Work, Circuit Says	Top
An employee's continued presence at work does not preclude a finding of disability where there is some evidence the employee is incapable of performing her job, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
Defense Wins Verdict in $177 Mil. Oil Spill Case	Top
A federal judge has decided that Citgo Asphalt Refining cannot be blamed for the third-largest oil spill in U.S. history in a case over who should pay for the cleanup of the massive November 2004 spill in the Delaware River.
Prop 8 Opponents Defend Walker's Showing of Trial Video	Top
Plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case have come to the defense of former U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, firing back against a motion to force him to hand over his video recording of the trial.
Details from Will Underscore Joe Flom's Charitable Nature	Top
Joseph Flom, the last surviving name partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, died in February at age 87. The will for his estate, estimated to be in the low nine figures, reveals that most of his money is going to charity.
'Voluntary Departure' Under WARN Act Is Ripe for U.S. Supreme Court Review	Top
A court split over what constitutes a "voluntary departure" under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act makes the issue ripe for high court review, write Carla Rozycki and Emma Sullivan, who review recent federal appeals court rulings on the matter.
O'Melveny Program Helps New Parents Return to Firm	Top
On Friday, O'Melveny & Myers officially launched a program -- said to be unique among major U.S. law firms -- for attorneys who are new parents, connecting them with a coach who will help with the plunge back into professional life by talking them through the transition's practical realities.Visit lawjobs.com News & Views

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