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Patent Litigation On Contingency Basis Disappearing

An article in IP Watchdog explains the numerical decline in contingency litigation law firms, attorneys and cases filed, and the […]

Life Sciences Companies Getting Pounded By Class Actions

Last year was a record year for securities class actions, and life sciences companies were especially hard hit. There was […]

US Company Sues Venezuelan Oil Execs For Soliciting Bribes

Harvest Natural Resources, a Houston-based oil and gas company, is suing executives with Petroleos de Venezuela for demanding bribes in […]

Protective Orders in Litigation

What are the limits of public access to the courts? In this Today’s General Counsel article, attorney Cristin K. Traylor […]

$75 Ticket For Keeping Chickens, $5,600 In “Prosecution Fees”

A class-action has been filed against two CA municipalities that have “made a practice of taking residents to criminal court for exceptionally minor crimes, then charging them thousands to pay for the cost of their own prosecution,” according…

New Civil Rights Mission For DOJ

The Jeff Sessions DOJ has created a new division of the Office of Civil Rights, the Conscience and Religious Freedom […]

Why Not An “NTSB” For Cyber Attacks?

Like the NTSB when it investigates plane crashes and train accidents, the proposed agency would investigate an incident and…

When Arbitration Is Mandatory, Workers Don’t Complain

Soon the Supreme Court will decide the legality of employment contracts that require workers to arbitrate their disputes individually. Alison […]

Will “Popcorn Lung” Litigation Expand To Coffee & Vaping?

A type of litigation that targets a flavoring used in microwave popcorn may be about to branch into coffee and […]

In-House Lawyers Can Be FCPA Targets

In one case, the company itself got off the hook on the basis of full disclosure and cooperation, but no such luck for the former GC…

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