http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Dorsey & Whitney Copyright 2010 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/146839 In an ongoing dispute over the ownership of the copyright for the Unix source code, a federal judge has slimmed The SCO Group Inc.’s claim for slander of title and denied computer infrastructure company Novell Inc.’s request to set aside a judgment that Novell was not entitled to certain license-related royalties. http://www.law360.com/articles/146839 http://www.law360.com/articles/145483 There have been approximately a dozen attempts, in one form or another, to pass legislation banning or restricting physician-owned hospitals, including a moratorium on building new physician-owned hospitals that expired in 2006. Thus, even without health care reform, physician ownership of hospitals will remain a target of lawmakers and regulators, says Eric M. Peterson of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/145483 http://www.law360.com/articles/145463 In-house counsel love the corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers who know their clients' businesses as well as they know the ins and outs of deal-making. http://www.law360.com/articles/145463 http://www.law360.com/articles/145029 Micron Technology Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., NEC Electronics and several other defendants in the ongoing static random access memory multidistrict litigation have agreed to settle the direct purchasers' price-fixing claims against them for a combined $25 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/145029 http://www.law360.com/articles/144048 A federal judge has rejected the National Arbitration Forum's bid to dismiss a suit claiming it conspired to help financial companies controlling some 86 percent of the U.S. credit card market to maintain mandatory arbitration clauses as a condition of card use. http://www.law360.com/articles/144048 http://www.law360.com/articles/143912 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated a judgment denying class certification to former employees of Charter Communications LLC, finding that the lead plaintiff’s decision to settle his personal wrongful termination claims with the company did not render class certification moot. http://www.law360.com/articles/143912 http://www.law360.com/articles/142324 Toshiba Corp. has resolved claims brought against it by The PACid Group LLC in a suit that has rounded up a series of technology companies for allegedly infringing PACid's data encryption patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/142324 http://www.law360.com/articles/141764 A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a decision by the judge in the multidistrict litigation over cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol to enjoin plaintiffs from filing class actions against drug manufacturer Bayer Corp. in West Virginia courts since a similar action filed there was recently dismissed. http://www.law360.com/articles/141764 http://www.law360.com/articles/140475 A federal judge has ruled that a Minnesota businessman who runs a real estate and aircraft holding company owes about $18 million to General Electric Capital Corp. for defaulting on loans related to two private jets. http://www.law360.com/articles/140475 http://www.law360.com/articles/140008 A federal judge has denied a request by Qwest Communications International Inc. to decertify a class of the company's call center employees who allege that they have not been paid for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers at the beginning and end of the day. http://www.law360.com/articles/140008 http://www.law360.com/articles/139544 Regardless of whether a prosecution takes place under U.K. legislation or under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, because of the size and importance of BAE Systems to the British economy and because of the size of other recent sanctions, any prosecution could have a substantial effect on the British economy and perhaps even national security, say Kent J. Schmidt and Bryan McGarry of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/139544 http://www.law360.com/articles/137706 Not only will an Enterprise Risk Management plan prepare your company for the unexpected, but the initial ERM investment will potentially save it from the skyrocketing costs of litigation that might come with a product recall, say Mark R. Kaster and Alene R. Grossman of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/137706 http://www.law360.com/articles/135542 Finnegan Henderson LLP, Fish & Richardson and Morrison & Foerster LLP topped the Law360 IP 100 this year, boasting the largest intellectual property practices in the United States, as measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135542 http://www.law360.com/articles/135538 Littler Mendelson PC, Jackson Lewis LLP and Ogletree Deakins PC topped the Law360 Employment 100 this year, boasting the largest employment practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135538 http://www.law360.com/articles/135541 Marshall Dennehey, Clausen Miller PC and Cozen O'Connor topped the Law360 Insurance 100 this year, boasting the largest insurance practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135541 http://www.law360.com/articles/135539 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, Bryan Cave LLP and DLA Piper topped the Law360 Energy 100 this year, boasting the largest energy practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135539 http://www.law360.com/articles/135535 Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Bingham McCutchen LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP topped the Law360 Bankruptcy 100 this year, boasting the largest bankruptcy practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135535 http://www.law360.com/articles/135546 The following is a list of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, ranked by the number of lawyers at the firm practicing within the U.S.: http://www.law360.com/articles/135546 http://www.law360.com/articles/135537 Howrey LLP, Gibson Dunn LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP topped the Law360 Competition 100 this year, boasting the largest competition practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135537 http://www.law360.com/articles/135545 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilson Sonsini PC and Bingham McCutchen LLP topped the Law360 Securities 100 this year, boasting the largest securities practices in the United States, measured by the number of practicing lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/135545