• April 4, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    Whose Idea Is It Anyway?

    Japan is not known for being a litigious country like the United States. It is a society that values harmony over conflict. As a result, there are far fewer lawsuits and litigators in Ja

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  • June 4, 2004 | The Recorder

    News Briefs

    FRIDAY NO HOLIDAY FOR STATE'S COURTSWhile many state workers will have Friday off as a "day of remembrance" for former Gov. and President Ronald Reagan, court employees will be

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  • January 6, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Federal Circuit Reinstates Uniloc Infringement Verdict Against Microsoft, Orders New Damages Trial

    Tuesday was a very good day for Uniloc USA--and for its contingency fee trial lawyer, Paul Hayes of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo. As you may recall, ba

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  • June 16, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

    Who's Duping Whom?

    Leave it to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, House majority leader and ideologue savant, to try to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. DeLay has devised the perfect strategy to prove his lon

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  • May 9, 2003 | Corporate Counsel

    The Best & The Busiest

    Quantity doesn't always have to be incompatible with quality. It turns out that the law firms that handle the most patent cases are also generally acknowledged to have the best IP litigation p

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  • September 11, 2003 | The Recorder

    Few and Far Between

    The Gemstar patent brawl was so intense that lawyers filled eight counsel tables in a Washington, D.C., courtroom and took up most of the public seating to boot.Like most patent

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  • May 7, 2007 | Alm

    Orrick Ups Salary of California First-Year Associates to $160,000

    Just when you thought the associate salary wars were over, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has fired another shot.The firm announced Thursday that it's hiking associates' pay in all

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  • January 6, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Panel Revives Verdict, Tosses Damages in Microsoft Case

    In a case reinstating a patent infringement verdict against Microsoft Corp. but tossing the jury's damages award, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a widely used dama

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  • August 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Iron Man of Imports

    In the early hours of a Saturday morning, you might find Paul Luckern manning the guard desk at the U.S. International Trade Commission, buzzing in the teams of lawyers arriving to appear before hi

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  • April 1, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

    Delaware Rules

    Three years ago Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer Inc's vice-chairman and GC, had a big problem � and what seemed, on first glance, a baffling solution. Pfizer was facing what Kindler calls "the most si

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