http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Winston & Strawn Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ 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/132397 Shearman & Sterling LLP has told its 2009 summer associates that it will delay their start dates until the fall of 2011 and provide them with a $65,000 stipend for the deferral year. http://www.law360.com/articles/132397 http://www.law360.com/articles/132322 A Chinese exporter of refrigerator and oven racks has filed concurrent complaints over countervailing and anti-dumping duties recently imposed on its products, saying the U.S. Department of Commerce's calculation method could force it to pay unfair “double duties.” http://www.law360.com/articles/132322 http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 Winston & Strawn LLP has reportedly pushed back the start date for incoming associates again, citing budget concerns in its decision to have new associates start in three groups throughout 2010. http://www.law360.com/articles/132105 http://www.law360.com/articles/131628 Eli Lilly & Co. is appealing a federal court ruling that invalidated one of the patents in an infringement dispute with generic-drug maker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. over the cancer treatment Gemzar. http://www.law360.com/articles/131628 http://www.law360.com/articles/131830 Eight private equity lawyers from Nixon Peabody LLP have joined Winston & Strawn LLP in its New York office. http://www.law360.com/articles/131830 http://www.law360.com/articles/131892 In light of IRS Revenue Ruling 2008-13, many companies will need to amend their employment agreements, equity plans and awards, and other incentive plans and agreements by Dec. 31, 2009, to preserve the deductibility of performance-based awards and amounts under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m), says Michael S. Melbinger of Winston & Strawn LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/131892 http://www.law360.com/articles/131379 Former Winston & Strawn LLP attorney Robert L. Nelson has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's energy and global transactions practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/131379 http://www.law360.com/articles/130896 A unit of specialty pharmaceutical firm Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. has struck a deal with Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. that resolves patent litigation over Watson’s Oxytrol and grants Barr a license to eventually market a generic version of the overactive bladder treatment. http://www.law360.com/articles/130896 http://www.law360.com/articles/130759 Technical support workers for Wells Fargo & Co. have secured conditional certification in a wage-and-hour action alleging that the bank violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by misclassifying the employees as exempt from overtime pay. http://www.law360.com/articles/130759 http://www.law360.com/articles/129408 Winston & Strawn LLP has snapped up communications transactional and regulatory specialist Rick Rubin, formerly of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, to bolster its corporate practice and expand its reach into the communications industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/129408 http://www.law360.com/articles/129346 The plaintiffs in the flat glass multidistrict antitrust litigation are seeking to keep the European Commission out of the class action as they continue to pressure one of the defendants to turn over documents related to an earlier EC investigation into the construction flat glass industry. http://www.law360.com/articles/129346 http://www.law360.com/articles/129312 Doley Securities Inc. is fighting a district court's award of more than $84,000 to law firm Winston & Strawn LLP in a breach of contract suit the firm filed after the financial services company allegedly attempted to back out of paying its legal bill. http://www.law360.com/articles/129312 http://www.law360.com/articles/125932 The tires at issue in the much-discussed Section 421 safeguard case are not the only Chinese-made tires making waves in the international trade community these days. Tires are also at the center of a recent ruling that could change the way anti-dumping and countervailing duties are calculated on exports from nonmarket economy countries. http://www.law360.com/articles/125932 http://www.law360.com/articles/128728 Having survived a motion for dismissal, the plaintiffs in a putative class action against Amaranth Advisors LLC over alleged energy market manipulation have revealed their intention to seek class certification. http://www.law360.com/articles/128728 http://www.law360.com/articles/128750 Sun India Pharmaceuticals Inc. has backed off from marketing generic tablets of the lucrative Alzheimer's drug Namenda, becoming the latest manufacturer to surrender to Forest Laboratories Inc. in an ongoing patent battle. http://www.law360.com/articles/128750 http://www.law360.com/articles/128445 The federal judge overseeing LG Electronics USA Inc.'s suit alleging Whirlpool Corp.'s false advertising regarding steam-powered dryers hurt sales of LG's products has ordered the defendant to produce documents containing communications with its advertising agencies. http://www.law360.com/articles/128445 http://www.law360.com/articles/128355 A federal judge has denied Frederic Bourke Jr.'s motion to set aside a verdict following the co-founder of bag maker Dooney & Bourke's conviction for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and making false statements over a plan to profit from the privatization of Azerbaijan's state oil company. http://www.law360.com/articles/128355 http://www.law360.com/articles/127497 A magistrate judge has recommended the dismissal of a counterclaim by Pan Am Railways Inc. against telecom firm Frontier Communications Co. seeking contribution from Frontier in a long-running dispute over a Superfund site in Maine. http://www.law360.com/articles/127497 http://www.law360.com/articles/124695 China is by far the largest and most important U.S. trading partner to be designated a nonmarket economy by the U.S. Department of Commerce, but despite pleas from Chinese officials that the U.S. reconsider that designation, lawyers say China is likely to remain a nonmarket economy in American eyes for quite some time. http://www.law360.com/articles/124695