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Jury Still Out on Email Notification of a Class Action

Under Rule 23, individual notice in class action cases has been required as the best notice practicable under the circumstances […]

Ways Attorneys Waste Money

In order to trim legal bills, attorneys have to look for creative ways to keep overhead low while still en-suring […]

Canada Seeing Influx of Retailers

Many retailers are establishing subsidiary operations in Canada because the economic situation there is better than in most countries, and […]

What to Expect in the 2013 
Say-On-Pay Season

The introduction of mandatory say-on-pay pressured companies and compensation committees to ensure that pay programs were aligned with company performance […]

New Protections for 
Transgender Status

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reversed its own precedent and extended the anti-discrimination protections of Title VII of the […]

Minimizing Risk When Hiring a Competitor’s Executive

Hiring a competitor’s employees entails risks that must be managed, particularly when the employees are executives. Contractual arrangements between a […]

How to Look at Patent Case Juries

The number of words in the description section of a patent has increased exponentially over the past 20 years. Patent […]

Burgeoning Intellectual Property Theft Often an Inside Job

Figures released by the Department of Justice and various private sector institutions show an increase in computer security incidents. Many […]

A Fast Track for Your Patent Portfolio

New programs have emerged recently that permit companies to accelerate patent prosecution worldwide. As part of the America Invents Act, […]

Predictive Coding is not a Magic Wand

Predictive coding is a process by which attorneys review a small sample of a large volume of documents, according to […]

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