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Intellectual Ventures Files Its First Patent Suits, 9 Tech Companies Named

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Intellectual Ventures, founded in 2000 by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed three suits in a Delaware federal court, seeking unspecified damages and requesting a jury trial. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Tech, Files, Named, Suits, Intellectual

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BofA Settles Municipal Bond Investigation for $137 Million

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Bank of America has agreed to pay $137.3 million to resolve allegations of bid rigging in the municipal bond industry, U.S. Justice Department officials said Tuesday. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: $137, BofA, Bond, Million, investigation, Settles, Municipal

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Court Agrees to Hear Closely Watched Wal-Mart and Global Warming Cases

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Stakes in the Supreme Court's business-related docket this term jumped into the stratosphere today with the justices' decisions to hear arguments in the mammoth Wal-Mart class action challenge and the latest legal front in the global warming battle. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Agrees, warming, Hear, Court, global, closely

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Skadden to Close Its S.F. Office

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null View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: legal information, law firm, View, Joseph H. Flom, null view, City College of New York, Close

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Legal Jobs Decline for Second Straight Month

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At a time when many analysts were expecting healthy growth, the monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the legal sector lost 1,100 jobs in November. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: time, Jobs, employment

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2010 Law Firm Billing Survey

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null View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Survey, General Practice, newswire 2010 law, Lawyers and Law Firms, null view

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Trustee Sues JPMorgan Chase as 'Blind' to Madoff Fraud

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null View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: newswire, Trustee, Sues

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Debt Panel Proposes Medical Malpractice Changes

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Deep in the report released by President Obama's debt commission is a proposed overhaul of medical malpractice liability that may rally opposition by trial lawyers and consumer groups. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Changes, Malpractice, Proposes

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Law Firm Leaders Survey 2010

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The takeaway from The American Lawyer's 2010 survey of leaders of Am Law 200 firms suggests that many of the changes implemented during the recession are here to stay, at least for a while. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Survey, recession, takeaway, american lawyer, American

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In Latest Campaign Funding Fight, a Focus on State Cash for Candidates

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Just after the Supreme Court's controversial campaign finance blockbuster , critics and supporters of the decision predicted the high court would weigh in next on state laws providing public funding to candidates. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: campaign, Fight, candidates, funding, focus, Cash, state

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Jury Orders SAP to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion in Infringement Case

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A federal jury on Tuesday ordered SAP AG to pay $1.3 billion to its archenemy, Oracle, for stealing customer support documents and software in a scheme to siphon off customers. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Infringement, Oracle, case, $1.3, Billion

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False Claims Act Recoveries Hit Record-Breaking $5 Billion

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The DOJ has recovered more than $5 billion under the False Claims Act since the start of 2009, the most in any two-year period in history, largely through health care fraud cases. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Billion, Recoveries, RecordBreaking, Claims, False

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Federal Judge Pleads Guilty to Drug Felony, Faces Less Than a Year in Jail

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U.S. District Senior Judge Jack T. Camp pleaded guilty Friday to a drug felony and misdemeanors associated with his arrest after a string of liaisons with a stripper and prostitute. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: liaisons, drug felony, misdemeanors, Year, Pleads, Guilty

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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Economic Claims Against Toyota

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A federal judge refused on Friday to dismiss the multidistrict litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. brought by car owners who claim sudden unintended acceleration caused the value of their vehicles to plummet. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Multidistrict, toyota motor corp, toyota motor, multidistrict litigation, car, Judge

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World Trade Center Settlement Gets Backing Needed to Take Effect

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Plaintiffs' lawyers succeeded in getting more than 95 percent of their clients in In re World Trade Center Litigation to opt into the massive settlement of some 10,000 claims alleging respiratory and other health problems from the post-9/11 response and cleanup. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Effect, Needed, Gets

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Toyota Attacks Plaintiffs' Evidence on Eve of Key Hearing

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Toyota Motor Corp. took to the Internet on Thursday to attack the evidence raised by plaintiffs' attorneys in the Los Angeles-based multidistrict litigation arising from reports of sudden unintended acceleration by Toyota vehicles. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Plaintiffs, attacks, evidence, Toyota, Hearing

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Bombing Suspect Found Guilty of Just One Conspiracy Count

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In a stunning verdict, a federal jury in the Southern District last night acquitted accused embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of 285 counts in the twin bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. Clearing the Tanzanian native of four conspiracies and the murder of 224 people in the near-simultaneous [...]

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Wham-O Hurls Constitutional Challenge to Patent Marking Statute

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Frisbee maker Wham-O Inc. is mounting a constitutional challenge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to a statute that allows whistleblowers to sue companies for falsely labeling their products as covered by patents. It remains to be seen if its claim will fly. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire [...]

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What's Behind Ogilvy Renault's Merger With Norton Rose?

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View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: post, Merger, newswire, View, ogilvy renault

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MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight With O'Melveny

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A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers. View full legal post on Law.com - Newswire Tags: Stall, Fight, Trial, O'Melveny, Effort, Loses

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