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• Examining the Evolving 'Power' of Today's General Counsel
• Is the GC Your Company's 'Moral Compass'?
• From the Experts: Register Before You Leap
• Judge Stalls Prius Headlight Settlement, Citing 'Big Problem' with Fees
• U.K. Shell Deal Spotlights Value of Common Law Model for Human Rights Litigation
• Ruling Leaves Silicon Valley Lawyers Wondering Whether 'Practicality' Means 'Patentable'
• Trademark Holders Face an Explicit Problem With .XXX Web Domain
• Rethinking Campus Harassment
• Steve Jobs' Resignation Highlights the Importance of Succession Plans
• From the Experts: Document Review with No Pain, All Gain
• From the Experts: Is That You, Terence?
• Wal-Mart Associate GC Joseph West Moving on to Lead MCCA
• Q&A: Incoming Recording Industry Chief Sherman Targets Piracy
• Moves: Kristin Campbell Makes Herself at Home at Hilton Worldwide
• Drinker Biddle's Gregg Melinson Going In-House at HP
• Andrew Kline Joins Go Daddy as Deputy General Counsel for Global Policy
• Best Legal Department 2011 Video: Wellpoint

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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.
Is the GC Your Company's 'Moral Compass'?	Top
Does a corporation's general counsel also, by default, have a responsibility to be the chief ethics officer? It's a question examined in a recent blog post by GC's Eye View writer Tom Kilroy.
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?
Judge Stalls Prius Headlight Settlement, Citing 'Big Problem' with Fees	Top
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, citing concerns about a request for attorney fees, has stalled a proposed class action settlement between Toyota Motor Corp. and nearly 300,000 owners and lessees of Prius hybrids who claimed that their headlights were defective because they intermittently shut off.
U.K. Shell Deal Spotlights Value of Common Law Model for Human Rights Litigation	Top
Royal Dutch Shell has been sued so many times over its conduct in Nigeria that its cases offer a laboratory experiment for human rights litigation.
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.
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?"
Rethinking Campus Harassment	Top
As the new academic year begins at Rutgers University, some things about dorm living for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. It's not only because of Tyler Clementi, but his death certainly played a role.
Steve Jobs' Resignation Highlights the Importance of Succession Plans	Top
As Apple CEO Steve Jobs steps down from his iThrone, boards of directors at companies big and small might want to heed this as a timely reminder and ask: Do we have a workable succession plan in place?
From the Experts: Document Review with No Pain, All Gain	Top
Text analytics search technology enables smarter review strategies that improve both the speed and quality of the expensive review process. Using this technology to structure a review allows litigation professionals to significantly reduce discovery costs by increasing review speeds.
From the Experts: Is That You, Terence?	Top
Convicted English fraudster Terence Freeman swindled 335 investors in a Ponzi scheme that collapsed with losses of £44 million ($71 million). How did all this happen, and what lessons are there for British and American corporate regulation?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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