• July 6, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Appeals over patents skyrocket in 2009

    The economic doldrums may be slowing patent filing work for intellectual property specialists, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's increasingly stingy patent allowance rate is boosting

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  • April 1, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Martha Stewart Seeks New Trial, Claims Juror Violated Oath Martha Stewart's lawyers yesterday asked for a new trial, claiming that one of the jurors who convicted her lied about

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  • December 20, 2004 | National Law Journal

    Defense firms hail Prop. 64

    Six weeks after the landslide passage of California's Proposition 64, no fewer than 17 of the state's largest defense firms are sending celebratory messages to clients in the form of onl

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  • January 27, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

    Speakers Cozen O'Connor member Daniel G. Ronca recently served as a course planner and member David L. Ladov served as a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Bar

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  • April 3, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Judge Asks Garson's Lawyer to 'Tone It Down' During Cross The attorney for Gerald P. Garson, the ex-Supreme Court judge on trial in Brooklyn for bribery, yesterday attacked the

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  • August 5, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Airgas' Suit Against Cravath Can Proceed

    Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judge in Philadelphia said the company sufficiently ple

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  • January 23, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Essential Internet Resources for the Federal Practitioner

    It goes without saying that the Internet has revolutionized legal research by making vast amounts of information available 24 hours a day, seven days a week from virtually any location. Moreover, a

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  • September 29, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Lawyers on the Fast Track 2008

    Editor’s Note: Welcome to our seventh annual Lawyers on the Fast Track supplement. Each year, we at The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly take this opport

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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Judge Raps Prolix Pro Se Litigant

    Rita Steinmetz, 66, of Pittsburgh, says that contrary to what some in her community might think, there's nothing crazy about her. Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 1925(b), however, clearly

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  • January 14, 2008 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF

    New Chicago firm touts alternative billing plan Three civil trial lawyers this year have launched a new firm in Chicago called Valorem, Latin for "value," that they hope w

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