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• Xe Services Deputy GC is Armed and Ready for Compliance Battles
• Back to School With Ivy Tech's Corporate College Initiative
• From the Experts: To Appeal or Not to Appeal, That is the Question
• Judge Throws Out Former Hospital GC's Whistleblower Suit
• Judge Calls His Own Expert at Oracle/Google Patent Trial
• Quinn Emanuel Opens D.C. Office to Be Closer to ITC
• Trademark Holders Face an Explicit Problem With .XXX Web Domain
• The Legal Ins and Outs of Post-Disaster FEMA Aid
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011: IPv6
• Making Your Privacy Policy Comprehensive and Comprehensible
• From the Experts: Register Before You Leap
• Moves: Nicholas Eldred Goes from BBC GC to Christie's Counsel
• 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
• Best Legal Department 2011 Video: Wellpoint

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Xe Services Deputy GC is Armed and Ready for Compliance Battles	Top
Suzanne Folsom is deputy general counsel and the first chief regulatory/compliance officer for Xe Services, the private security company and military contractor formerly called Blackwater Worldwide. She is no stranger to rebuilding shaky companies and battling compliance demons.
Back to School With Ivy Tech's Corporate College Initiative	Top
As vice president and general counsel of Indiana's Ivy Tech Community College, Susan Brooks has been a key player in the Corporate College initiative, which trains students according to the needs of local employers.
From the Experts: To Appeal or Not to Appeal, That is the Question	Top
When handed an adverse patent application decision, the cost, time, and likelihood of success become the basic considerations for deciding whether to appeal the examiner's decision. Given there are already 20,000 undecided appeals hanging in limbo with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the decision to appeal must be made strategically.
Judge Throws Out Former Hospital GC's Whistleblower Suit	Top
U.S. District Judge James M. Munley has dismissed a qui tam whistleblower suit brought by the former general counsel of a hospital group based in the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania after finding that his allegations of fraud weren't the result of voluntary whistleblowing, but instead were made as part of his own guilty plea agreement.
Judge Calls His Own Expert at Oracle/Google Patent Trial	Top
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup has appointed an expert to testify on damages in Oracle America Inc.'s closely watched suit against Google Inc., which claims the Android mobile operating system violates Java-related patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems Inc.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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