If 2010 was a year for staying put, 2011 was the year that law firm partners jumped back into the lateral market with full force. During the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2011, 2,454 partners left or joined Am Law 200 firms -- a 22 percent increase over 2010. However, that's no signal that the boom years are back; transactions and litigation both lag [?]
A California judge took after Google's lawyers Tuesday for breaking rules aimed at streamlining patent-marking issues at trial. The judge even threatened to take away a key Google defense: the argument that Oracle didn't mark, or provide notification of, some patents in the suit, a position aimed at limiting exposure for past damages. [?]
EchoStar failed in its duty to preserve relevant emails leading up to a $2.5 billion contract dispute, an appellate panel has ruled, becoming the first New York state appeal court to apply the standard for spoliation of electronic evidence set forth in 2003 by a New York federal judge in Zubulake. [?]
A federal judge has rejected motions by Evanston Insurance and its parent corporation, Markel Corp., to toss MGA Entertainment's attempts to force them to pay its legal costs for the past two years of its battle against Mattel over copyrights to the Bratz dolls. [?]
When can an employee be fired for Facebook comments that refer to his or her employer? And when are an employer's rules about such postings unlawful? A new report from the NLRB's office of general counsel addresses these and other questions about social media in the employment context. [?]
D.C. District Judge John Facciola speaks with LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how e-discovery training is at a crossroads, constrained by limited financial resources at the governmental level. He proposes several solutions to address these challenges, particularly when individuals are unable to meet face to face. [?]
The Boies, Schiller & Flexner founder explains how he prepared for the key cross-examinations in the Proposition 8 case. [?]
Jerone English, director of e-discovery for Intel, speaks to LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, about how rank-and-file lawyers can get up to speed on the latest electronic data discovery policies and procedures. [?]
Robert Owen, partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, discusses with LTN magazine's editor-in-chief, Monica Bay, his five proposed new rules for a simpler approach to preservation in e-discovery. [?]
A jury in Washington, D.C., has acquitted two businessmen in a high-profile foreign bribery case that stemmed from a two-year undercover sting in which agents pitched a fake $15 million deal involving the sale of goods to the African nation of Gabon. [?]
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