Filter This View

  • April 5, 2004 | National Law Journal

    In Brief

    Venture capital funds sitting on pile of cash Venture capital firms are sitting on an estimated $68 billion in funds that they have yet to invest in start-up companies, ac

    1 minute read

  • May 12, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    'Fear Factor' Promotes Identity Theft Suits

    The recent wave of personal data thefts from companies across the United States has lawyers bracing for a new round of lawsuits over how businesses safeguard the information. Attorney

    1 minute read

  • July 11, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Reward true innovators

    The research tax credit, first enacted in 1981 to encourage research and development (R&D) spending by big business, is in serious need of reform. In addition to making the credit perman

    1 minute read

  • August 20, 2008 | National Law Journal

    A Midsize Firm's Growth Dilemma

    Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, a midsize, Chicago-rooted law firm, is losing groups of attorneys as it grapples with the question of h

    1 minute read

  • August 25, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Perdue raising more money from lawyers

    GOV. SONNY PERDUE appears to have made some headway with the legal community, but lawyers still heavily favor Democrats when it comes to giving money to gubernatorial candidates. Since

    1 minute read

  • June 13, 2011 | Daily Business Review

    With the end of Bush era, civil rights return to the fold

    Some of the lawyers who left the Justice Depart­ment's civil rights division during George W. Bush's presidency and complained they were the target of ideological warfare have returned duri

    1 minute read

  • August 24, 2005 | The Recorder

    In Brief

    SWIDLER BERLIN LOSES 14 ENERGY ATTORNEYSWASHINGTON � Swidler Berlin is losing some wattage. Last week, 14 energy attorneys announced they were leaving for 650-lawyer Alston &

    1 minute read

  • July 1, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    A Niche With Staying Power

    It's almost become a lawyer meme that the International Trade Commission, a once-obscure quasi-judicial body, is a hot forum for patent disputes because it handles cases quickly and offers po

    1 minute read

  • March 29, 2004 | Legal Times

    Hot, and Getting Hotter

    It's a well-known fact that Washington, D.C., is one of the hottest real estate markets in the country. What may not be quite as obvious is the degree to which the city's law firms are c

    1 minute read

  • November 14, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Panelists Explore Relationship Between White and Minority Lawyers

    When Ramona E. Romero, now general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was a first-year associate at a large law firm in the 1980s, leather skirts were all the rage. She went int

    1 minute read