The long-anticipated petition appealing the landmark In re Bilski decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was filed at the Supreme Court Wednesday, setting the stage for a showdown
Continue readingRestructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process can sometimes take years. The large ones generate significant document reviews. But as reported in the legal press and on various bankruptcy
Continue readingAs reported by the Bloomberg and the HuffingtonPost websites last night, the FDIC may manage the so-called “bad bank” that the Obama administration is likely to set up as it tries to break
Continue readingWe are getting a lot of questions on security clearances so we thought we’d put out a primer. There is an increase in the number of Federal government projects and positions coming into the DC Metro
Continue readingAs noted by Rees Morrison in his blog Law Department Management (click here), the December 2008 issue of the ACC Digest (the magazine of the Association of Corporate Counsel) reports on the ACC Annual
Continue readingBack in November 2008 we commented on the settlement negotiations around Carlson v. Xerox case (click here). The noteworthy item for contract attorneys was the issue “can you pay a contract
Continue readingEU antitrust regulators raided Slovak Telekom last week on suspicions that the group had violated European anti-monopoly rules. EU officials raided the company’s offices accompanied by national
Continue readingA very small thing called “metadata” is getting bigger, at least in legal significance. Litigation attorneys say that lawsuits demanding the production of metadata — the digital
Continue readingA bit of a mixed bag today: E-discovery Kazeon Systems has rolled out a range of pricing plans for its e-discovery products, hoping to entice customers amid lean economic times with one plan aimed at
Continue readingThere has been a fair amount of comment on Rhoads Industries v. Building Materials Corp. (No. 07-4756 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 14, 2008) in which Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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