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• The U.S. Credit-Rating Downgrade Will Keep In-House Lawyers Busy
• A Second Act for New ACC President Veta Richardson
• As Wall Street Gets Messier, Preet Bharara Aims to Clean it Up
• China's Intellectual Property Regime Comes of Age
• From Jail to Jobless
• Politicians and Pundits Make Some Noise About Patent Reform
• Got Your Stump Speech, Your Smile, Your . . . IP Lawyer?
• The 2011 GC Compensation Survey
• Google's Chief Legal Officer Lashes Out Online
• From the Experts: Corporate Compliance Twenty Years Later
• From the Experts: Getting It All Together
• Drinker Biddle's Gregg Melinson Going In-House at HP
• Andrew Kline Joins Go Daddy as Deputy General Counsel for Global Policy
• New ACC GC James A. Merklinger Touts the Value of Association
• Ex-Rendell GC Named Top Lawyer of Philadelphia Housing Agency
• Freddie Mac GC Robert E. Bostrom Headed to SNR Denton
• Best Legal Department 2011 Video: Wellpoint

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The U.S. Credit-Rating Downgrade Will Keep In-House Lawyers Busy	Top
Following Standard & Poor's removal of the AAA credit rating the United States has held for 70 years, CorpCounsel asked Cornelius Hurley, director of Boston University's Center for Finance, Law & Policy, to tell us what it all means.
A Second Act for New ACC President Veta Richardson	Top
Veta Richardson, the new president and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, discusses her long history with the organization what she sees in store for in-house counsel around the world.
As Wall Street Gets Messier, Preet Bharara Aims to Clean it Up	Top
In a recent Fortune magazine profile,U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara is portrayed as a thoughtful, intellectual, and ravenously curious person with a driving sense of right and wrong--and a driving desire to right the wrongs in his jurisdiction.
China's Intellectual Property Regime Comes of Age	Top
With the pump primed by government subsidization, the flow of domestic Chinese patent applications soared from 380,000 in 2005 to nearly a million in 2010.
From Jail to Jobless	Top
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission commissioners are looking at possible revisions to the agency's 20-year-old background-check guidelines, a prospect that has alarmed the business community and triggered fears of burdensome new regulations.
Politicians and Pundits Make Some Noise About Patent Reform	Top
The President, CEOs, inventors, and others are calling for fundamental changes to the U.S. patent system. As more voices enter the fray over patent reform, many are asking what reform would look like and what it would actually accomplish.
Got Your Stump Speech, Your Smile, Your . . . IP Lawyer?	Top
Should former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin have saved a seat on her bus for an intellectual property lawyer? You betcha!
The 2011 GC Compensation Survey	Top
If last year's CorpCounsel GC Compensation Survey showed the aftereffects (the hangover, if you will), of the deepest trough of the recession, this year's results show that chief legal officers made steady gains and recovered some momentum.
Google's Chief Legal Officer Lashes Out Online	Top
Some bloggers and pundits are billing David Drummond's blog post about tech patents as part of a 'clash of the titans,' while others are calling it a poor attempt at a pity party. Did Drummond make his case, or did he make a huge misstep?
From the Experts: Corporate Compliance Twenty Years Later	Top
A former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and author of the McNulty Memo, Paul McNulty revisits the corporate compliance guidelines released by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 1991.
From the Experts: Getting It All Together	Top
Electronic discovery crises are inevitable, which means law departments should start working ASAP with IT to develop a robust information-governance strategy.
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.
Andrew Kline Joins Go Daddy as Deputy General Counsel for Global Policy	Top
Powerhouse domain registrar Go Daddy has brought former White House lawyer Andrew Kline into the private sector as its first-ever deputy GC for global policy, a sign of the company's growing presence on Capitol Hill.
New ACC GC James A. Merklinger Touts the Value of Association	Top
As the new general counsel for the Association of Corporate Counsel, James A. Merklinger will continue to extol the benefits of membership, albeit from a higher perch at the world's largest organization for in-house counsel.
Ex-Rendell GC Named Top Lawyer of Philadelphia Housing Agency	Top
The embattled Philadelphia Housing Authority has named Barbara Adams, an attorney with an extensive background in affordable housing projects and former Gov. Edward G. Rendell's GC, as its incoming general counsel.
Freddie Mac GC Robert E. Bostrom Headed to SNR Denton	Top
Robert E. Bostrom, general counsel of much-maligned Freddie Mac, is leaving July 29 to become partner and co-head of the financial-institutions sector at SNR Denton.
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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