http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Gibson Dunn Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 BP America Inc., ConocoPhillips Co., Shell Exploration & Production Co. and other energy companies have told a federal judge that there is no reason for them to be targeted in a putative class action brought by employment drug screening firms alleging that DrugTest Inc. snuffed out competition for oil and gas industry clients. http://www.law360.com/articles/134923 http://www.law360.com/articles/120783 The ability of people to communicate and share information has expanded at a much more accelerated pace than the law governing the use of that information, says Steven K. Humke, a founding partner of the Ice Miller LLP private equity and venture services group. http://www.law360.com/articles/120783 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/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/134233 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has decided to appeal $102,000 in sanctions incurred more than four years ago while defending Canadian energy giant EnCana Corp. in a long-running, now-settled antitrust suit brought by E&J Gallo Winery. http://www.law360.com/articles/134233 http://www.law360.com/articles/134062 The shakeup in the legal industry in the past year has left some prominent firms less beloved by corporate counsel, according to a new report. http://www.law360.com/articles/134062 http://www.law360.com/articles/134152 Major insurance brokerage and consulting firm March & McLennan Cos. Inc. announced Friday that it will pay $400 million to settle a shareholder class action seeking redress for stock losses allegedly caused by the company's failure to disclose knowledge of a bid-rigging scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/134152 http://www.law360.com/articles/133437 More than a dozen attorneys representing Konami Digital Entertainment Co. Ltd. and Viacom International Inc. in their patent dispute over controllers for MTV's popular "Rock Band" video game will be opening a new front as they head to Tokyo to depose Japanese patent lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/133437 http://www.law360.com/articles/133245 Emulex Corp. has filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing rival Broadcom Corp. of exaggerating Emulex's alleged patent infringement in order to maintain its dominant position selling a certain type of Ethernet controller for computer servers. http://www.law360.com/articles/133245 http://www.law360.com/articles/133476 Clearwire Corp.'s national 4G broadband infrastructure got a boost Tuesday when Sprint Nextel Corp., Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Intel Corp. agreed to pump over $1.5 billion into the company as it expands its high-speed mobile WiMax network. http://www.law360.com/articles/133476 http://www.law360.com/articles/133313 Class action stalwart Milberg LLP and Manhattan-based boutique Reese Richman LLP have been selected as interim co-lead counsel to represent a group of indirect purchasers who claim tomato processors engaged in price-fixing in the multibillion-dollar U.S. market. http://www.law360.com/articles/133313 http://www.law360.com/articles/133294 A former federal judge has been appointed special master to oversee discovery disputes between Fannie Mae and its former auditor KPMG LLP in multidistrict litigation stemming from the mortgage giant's 2004 accounting scandal. http://www.law360.com/articles/133294 http://www.law360.com/articles/133167 Electronic Arts Inc. has bought social network game maker Playfish Ltd. to operate within its Web and wireless division EA Interactive, the video game developer announced Monday. http://www.law360.com/articles/133167 http://www.law360.com/articles/133036 Kraft Foods Inc.'s buyout bid for Cadbury PLC turned ugly Monday when the U.S. food conglomerate made formal its previously rebuffed $16.3 billion takeover offer and the U.K. candymaker "emphatically rejected" it. http://www.law360.com/articles/133036 http://www.law360.com/articles/132767 Employers with managerial offices in the District of Columbia with the authority to make, recommend or approve decisions affecting workers outside the district should take note of a remarkable expansion of the District of Columbia Human Rights Act by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Monteilh v. AFSCME, AFL-CIO, say Jason C. Schwartz and Daniel J. Davis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/132767 http://www.law360.com/articles/132148 A group of Hewlett-Packard Co. pension fund investors who claimed the company's board of directors erred in handing former CEO Carly Fiorina a severance package worth more than $21 million lost an appeal of the dismissal of the suit on Tuesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/132148 http://www.law360.com/articles/132009 Pharmaceutical and medical device company Allergan Inc. has fired back in Ocular Research of Boston Inc.'s patent infringement suit over a dry eye treatment, saying the ophthalmic research center's patent should be declared invalid for inequitable conduct before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.law360.com/articles/132009 http://www.law360.com/articles/131986 California coffee powerhouse Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. has sealed a $213 million cash-and-stock deal to acquire Diedrich Coffee Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131986 http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to review parts of an administrative law judge's initial determination that Acer Inc. and a host of other dynamic random access memory manufacturers did not infringe three Tessera semiconductor chip packaging patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/131716 http://www.law360.com/articles/131460 Tyco Health Care Group LP has received another boost in its battle with Masimo Corp. over alleged market manipulation of pulse oximetry products, with an appeals court affirming an order vacating a jury’s findings of liability as to the health care conglomerate’s bundling agreements. http://www.law360.com/articles/131460