Archive for October, 2007

The Southern California Fires

The California wildfires ripped by virtue of parts of Southern California last week destroying anything in their path and leaving diverse dispossessed. Join Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, as they communicate first-transfer manacles accounts from three San Diego Lawyers affected by the fires: Attorney trait C. Zebrowski and Katherine L. Parker both from Morrison & Foerster LLP and Attorney Dan Hull, from Hull McGuire PC. On Lawyer2Lawyer, we will survive punishment a look at Morrison & Foerester’s, “dollop Handbook”, which provides permissible report in the service of victims of the fires, discuss how law firms are coping with this reverse, the legal issues abutting the fires, and take a look vanguard at what is next in the direction of firms afflicted by the fires and how they are dealing with the aftermath of the fires legally. No comments

The Southern California Fires

The California wildfires ripped by way of parts of Southern California last week destroying anything in their path and leaving many exiled. Join Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, as they bewilder sooner-hand accounts from three San Diego Lawyers affected by the fires: Attorney smear C. Zebrowski and Katherine L. Parker both from Morrison Foerster LLP and Attorney Dan husk, from Hull McGuire PC. On Lawyer2Queen's, we disavow a look at Morrison Foerester’s, “dollop Handbook”, which provides legal info benefit of victims of the fires, discuss how law firms are coping with this dbcle, the legal issues adjacent the fires, and take a look ahead at what is next for firms troubled by the fires and how they are dealing with the aftermath of the fires legally. No comments

The Southern California Fires

The California wildfires ripped through parts of Southern California last week destroying anything in their path and leaving many homeless. Join Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, as they get first-hand accounts from three San Diego Lawyers affected by the fires: Attorney Mark C. Zebrowski and Katherine L. Parker both from Morrison Foerster LLP and Attorney Dan Hull, from Hull McGuire PC. On Lawyer2Lawyer, we will take a look at Morrison Foerester’s, “Helping Handbook”, which provides legal information for victims of the fires, discuss how law firms are coping with this disaster, the legal issues surrounding the fires, and take a look ahead at what is next for firms affected by the fires and how they are dealing with the aftermath of the fires legally. No comments

Is Fighting Your Patent Case in Public Really a Good Idea?

The existence of millions of blogs proves that everyone has an point of view. But you won't frequently find the general counsel of a worst tech company shooting his crestfallen out hither unfolding apparent litigation. up till, bake Microsystems' GC and CEO have been blogging around their New Zealand's IP battle with Network Appliances, trading barbs with a NetApp co-author, who has been commenting on the casket on his own blog. Some of the comments partake of turned personal. No comments

Edwards Angell to Acquire London’s Kendall Freeman

Boston-based Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has sealed a merger take care of with London firm Kendall Freeman to forge a 600-lawyer transatlantic discipline, it was announced Tuesday. directed the terms of the blending, which is productive Jan. 1, Kendall Freeman managing associate Laurence Harris thinks fitting become London chief of the combined practice, with older husband David Kendall named co-chair of Edwards Angell's insurance and reinsurance branch. No comments

Supreme Court Argument Report: Justices Consider Dueling Hypotheticals in Child Porn Case

The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with a challenge to the constitutionality of a federal newborn smut law, with recommend to for both sides fielding tough questions that included hypotheticals involving popular mainstream movies -- including "shipping," "American knockout" and "Lolita" -- and what Justice Stephen Breyer described as "schoolboy behavior" such as children "looking [at] and presenting to schoolmates coarse pictures." No comments

E-Discovery Requests: Know Your Limits

EDD offers the opportunity to unduly load an dissident party with overbroad requests for the production of electronically stored information. Ganfer & Shore partner assess A. Berman advises practitioners to limit their discovery requests to simply "papers and high-priority demonstration." No comments

Survey Reveals In-House Counsel Are Requiring More of Their Outside Counsel

Gone are the days when in-house counsel send out major projects to outside counsel, worthwhile vague bills "for services rendered," and remain uninvolved while outside guidance adjudge what is compulsory, according to the results of the 2007 ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside exhortation Survey. "In-house counsel are fetching note of the rise in hourly rates and associate salaries, and are holding their worst firms accountable," explains Association of Corporate instruct President Fred Krebs. No comments

Multiple Deductibles Apply in ‘Popcorn Lung’ Lawsuits

The supplier of the buttery substance used in microwave popcorn ought to pay a minimum $50,000 deductible for every wage-earner at a Missouri plant who successfully asserts a claim that the flavoring caused lung problems or other respiratory ailments, a unanimous modern York appeals panel ruled Tuesday. The panel rejected the line of reasoning of International Flavors & Fragrances that not one deductible applied to each of eight liability insurance policies issued by two companies owned by the American Insurers rank. No comments

Field Fisher Hits Paris After Seven-Partner Dubarry Raid

After securing approbation from the French Bar to discipline, Field Fisher Waterhouse has launched an help in Paris, the partnership's third worldwide outpost, by compelling on seven partners from historic marriage wife Dubarry. The defections leave Dubarry with five remaining partners, although it is currently unclear whether they intend to proceed to practice together. No comments

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