http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Foley & Lardner Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135067 Intellectual property lawyer Paul Garrity has joined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP from Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/135067 http://www.law360.com/articles/131435 A concentration of low-wage workers, midsize businesses and vigorous plaintiffs firms has made Florida a favorite spot for Fair Labor Standards Act litigation, and despite a judicial backlash — one judge called the situation “out of hand” — the FLSA hot spot shows no signs of cooling down, according to lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131435 http://www.law360.com/articles/134813 JPMorgan Chase & Co. and several subsidiaries have reached a settlement with DataTern Inc. in an infringement suit targeting more than a dozen companies over a patent related to database access systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/134813 http://www.law360.com/articles/134645 Local units of telecommunications company CenturyLink Inc. are seeking over $20 million from Sprint Communications Co. LP, alleging that Sprint unilaterally lowered rates for connecting Voice Over Internet Protocol calls to local networks in violation of existing contracts. http://www.law360.com/articles/134645 http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 A U.S. trustee has asked that a bankruptcy court hold back part of any interim compensation to professionals in the Metaldyne Corp. Chapter 11 proceedings, including Jones Day, Foley & Lardner LLP and Reed Smith LLP, until the cases are resolved. http://www.law360.com/articles/134624 http://www.law360.com/articles/134284 Following the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to partially review an initial determination that several technology companies did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents, interested third party PowerASE Technology Inc. has asked the commission to refrain from issuing a general exclusion order for all infringing products. http://www.law360.com/articles/134284 http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 They possess a keen sense of urgency and are willing to go the extra mile, say the Fortune 1000 corporate counsel who make up their client base. These nine law firms are standouts in what a new legal-industry report calls “commitment to help.” http://www.law360.com/articles/134461 http://www.law360.com/articles/134473 All law firms pride themselves on their legal skills, but a handful of firms — Baker Botts LLP, Foley & Lardner LLP, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis LLP — mark the cream of the crop in terms of deft lawyering, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134473 http://www.law360.com/articles/134477 The firms that provide the best value for the dollar are the ones that offer personalized understanding of immediate issues and go out of their way to help mitigate against future risk, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134477 http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 Corporate counsel say they want a law firm that, above all else, knows their business and understands their particular objectives, according a new report. The top-ranked law firms are responding by training their attorneys to step into clients' shoes. http://www.law360.com/articles/134460 http://www.law360.com/articles/134064 The law firms that offer truly superior client service, according to a new survey of corporate counsel, are united by a commitment to understanding their clients' business, open lines of communication and a firm-wide zeal for keeping clients satisfied. http://www.law360.com/articles/134064 http://www.law360.com/articles/134203 Jones Day reportedly has demoted five of its London partners — about 10 percent of the partners in that office — to of counsel since the beginning of 2009 as American firms continue to scale back their domestic and international operations. http://www.law360.com/articles/134203 http://www.law360.com/articles/133438 Foley & Lardner LLP said Tuesday it had boosted its Southern California presence with former Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP intellectual property co-chair Amar Thakur, who joins the firm’s San Diego and Del Mar offices. http://www.law360.com/articles/133438 http://www.law360.com/articles/133423 Foley & Lardner LLP has reached a settlement in a malpractice suit filed by former client DataTern Inc. alleging that the firm overcharged for legal services and failed to properly litigate a patent infringement case. http://www.law360.com/articles/133423 http://www.law360.com/articles/132698 A recent highly publicized interest in insider trading — including charges being filed against hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam and five other individuals — will ensnare a growing number of individuals and entities, say Kenneth B. Winer, Seth L. Levine and Brooke D. Clarkson of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/132698 http://www.law360.com/articles/131800 Employment lawyers have diagnosed the health care industry — and in particular, large hospitals in major metropolitan areas — as the latest area of focus for plaintiffs attorneys looking to lodge collective and class action wage-and-hour claims. http://www.law360.com/articles/131800 http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 The legal sector was not immune from October's grim unemployment numbers, shedding 5,800 jobs last month. http://www.law360.com/articles/132971 http://www.law360.com/articles/132710 Japan-based Nichia Corp. has slapped Chinese solar products company Jiawei North America Inc. with a patent infringement lawsuit over light-emitting diode technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132710 http://www.law360.com/articles/130713 Although various financing mechanisms have been used to provide multimillion-dollar funding for energy transmission infrastructure projects, a new public-private partnership model has emerged in this decade. An analysis of projects using this model demonstrates the advantages and challenges that financing such projects presents, says Ann Warren of Foley & Lardner LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130713 http://www.law360.com/articles/132879 UGI Utilities Inc. is hoping to be the latest defendant dismissed from a lawsuit filed by Frontier Communications Co., which paid $7.6 million to clean up tar contamination in a Maine river and sued nearly a dozen companies it said were also liable. http://www.law360.com/articles/132879