• December 2, 2008 | The Recorder

    Patent Ambush Costs Qualcomm

    Monkeying around in a technology standards-setting organization can cost you in the end. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed Monday that Qualcomm should be punished for

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  • September 18, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Denial of Funds Over Military Recruiting Ban Upheld

    Yale Law School can be denied certain federal funding for barring military recruiters from its campus, a Manhattan federal appellate court has held. Citing a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court de

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  • July 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers Pony Up Plenty of Cash for Campaign Coffers

    Lawyers at some of New York's largest law firms are spending tens of thousands of dollars to back favored candidates in the race to succeed Andrew Cuomo as New York's attorne

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  • June 1, 2011 | Legaltech News

    Tam Harbert: How to Protect Firm Data From Insider Trading

    Tam Harbert, a freelance reporter from Washington, D.C., spoke to Monica Bay, LTN's editor in chief, about the a target="new" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArtic

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  • September 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    CENTOCOR ET AL. V. ABBOTT LABS In the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, on June 29 a federal jury in Mar

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  • November 13, 2007 |

    IBM Tips the Scale Toward Software

    IBM Corp. continued the development of its Information on Demand software business Monday, as it agreed to buy business intelligence software maker Cognos Inc. of Ottawa for $5 billion in cash.

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  • April 20, 2007 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    WACHTELL HIRES LATERAL FROM PAUL, WEISSNext week New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz will take a step toward making its executive compensation and benefits practice wh

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  • March 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Big Deals

    Duke / Progress Energy Duke Energy Corporation agreed to buy Progress Energy, Inc., for $13.7 billion in stock a

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  • January 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Wachtell, Skadden, Hunton Advise $13.7 Billion Public Utility Merger Duke Energy will spend $13.7 billion to acquire Progress Energy, creating the nation's largest utili

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  • May 7, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    Allegations of Corporate Crimes Against Humanity Going to Trial

    A federal judge has cleared one of the last obstacles to a May trial for families of Nigerian environmental activists who are seeking to hold a Dutch oil company liable for violations of

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