http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Proskauer Rose Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132851 Fulbright & Jaworski LLP can continue to represent National Envelope Corp. in a trademark dispute in spite of protests from Staples Inc., another Fulbright client and intervenor in the case. http://www.law360.com/articles/132851 http://www.law360.com/articles/132539 British Telecommunications PLC has lodged a suit in federal court accusing an American subsidiary of semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. of infringing a data compression patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/132539 http://www.law360.com/articles/132542 Fed up with what it says is blatant exploitation, the band No Doubt has sued video game maker Activision Publishing Inc. for breach of contract over the company's use of the band and its members in its flagship “Guitar Hero” franchise of games. http://www.law360.com/articles/132542 http://www.law360.com/articles/131702 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case filed by a group of clients alleging mutual fund manager Harris Associates LP charged excessive fees, and all sides appeared to walk away from an appellate court ruling that could have significantly altered the fee structure of the $11.5 trillion mutual fund industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/131702 http://www.law360.com/articles/131677 A bankruptcy judge has approved Philadelphia Newspapers LLC's disclosure statement, but the news chain — which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philly.com Web site — still faces a crucial appeal over whether bank creditors can bid for its assets based on credit they've already extended. http://www.law360.com/articles/131677 http://www.law360.com/articles/131582 A New York judge has ruled that policies Twin City Fire Insurance Co. provided to JPMorgan Chase & Co. require the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unit to pay the banking giant nearly $22 million toward its roughly $2.3 billion in settlements with bondholders of defunct WorldCom Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131582 http://www.law360.com/articles/131375 A federal judge on Thursday voided the Federal Trade Commission's enforcement interpretation of the controversial Red Flags Rule in the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, which the American Bar Association claimed would have jeopardized lawyers' time-honored methods of billing clients. http://www.law360.com/articles/131375 http://www.law360.com/articles/130806 A federal judge has extinguished a series of claims against Clifford Chance US LLP and Sullivan & Worcester LLP in a $75 million race discrimination suit brought by a lawyer who used to work at the firms, but allowed a breach of contract claim against Clifford Chance and an employment discrimination claim against S&W to proceed to trial. http://www.law360.com/articles/130806 http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 Intellectual property expert Grant Kinsel has left Foley & Lardner LLP to join the Los Angeles office of international law firm Perkins Coie LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130513 http://www.law360.com/articles/130607 Account executives at a former ECC Capital Corp. unit sold to Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corp. in 2007 have struck a deal over allegations that the companies violated federal overtime pay requirements, reaching two settlements worth up to almost $1.4 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/130607 http://www.law360.com/articles/130305 Ares Capital Corp. says it will acquire Allied Capital Corp. in a $648 million all-stock deal that will hand Ares stockholders control of about 65 percent of the combined company. http://www.law360.com/articles/130305 http://www.law360.com/articles/129663 Paul Hamburger and three other employee benefit attorneys have left McDermott Will & Emery LLP for Proskauer Rose LLP's Washington office, marking the first time that Proskauer Rose's employee benefit practice group has cracked the market in the nation's capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/129663 http://www.law360.com/articles/129495 In an antitrust lawsuit over the reconfiguration of a tournament system, a judge has refused to award more than $17.85 million in attorneys' fees to men's professional tennis association ATP Tour Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/129495 http://www.law360.com/articles/129175 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reversed a lower court ruling that partially found in favor of five Citigroup Inc. employees who had accused the company of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act with its Citibuilder cash balance plan. http://www.law360.com/articles/129175 http://www.law360.com/articles/123974 The U.S. Supreme Court has already heard or is poised to hear five labor and employment cases this term, including two labor cases involving arbitration issues, a Title VII case with echoes of the controversial Ledbetter decision and a case over how much deference courts should give to Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan administrators. http://www.law360.com/articles/123974 http://www.law360.com/articles/122730 The principal problem that is most obviously seen in the federal appellate system is delay, says Edward A. Brill, co-chair of Proskauer Rose LLP's appellate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/122730 http://www.law360.com/articles/128224 Philadelphia Newspapers LLC has appealed a bankruptcy judge's denial of a proposed sale of substantially all the Philadelphia Inquirer publisher's assets to a consortium of local interests based on numerous objections from the U.S. trustee, the creditors committee and other lenders. http://www.law360.com/articles/128224 http://www.law360.com/articles/128032 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's appeal of his convictions stemming from the massive fraud that led to the energy giant's collapse. http://www.law360.com/articles/128032 http://www.law360.com/articles/127837 Former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner Edward Cerasia II has jumped ship to return to Seyfarth Shaw LLP as a partner in the firm's labor and employment department in New York. http://www.law360.com/articles/127837 http://www.law360.com/articles/127707 Investors in accused Ponzi schemer Stanford Financial Group have added Chadbourne & Parke LLP to the list of defendants in a proposed class action against Proskauer Rose LLP and former partner Thomas Sjoblom, who allegedly helped shield the bank from investigators. http://www.law360.com/articles/127707