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  • January 30, 2008

    Giuliani Drops Out, But Will His Law Firm Suffer?

    Rudy Giuliani's bid to become president effectively ended Tuesday when he finished a distant third in Florida's Republican primary. But though he will now have more time to spend at his day job as a name partner with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, it remains to be seen whether he will continue to have sufficient clout to attract clients and recruit legal talent for the firm's growing New York office.

  • January 31, 2008

    Squire Sanders Snaps Up IP Expert Wayne Jones

    Wayne Jones, an esteemed intellectual property lawyer, has joined the Palo Alto, Calif., office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP. His business and technology sensibilities allow him to assist executives in their intellectual property endeavors.

  • January 30, 2008

    NCAA, Athletes End Antitrust Suit With $18.9M Deal

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association has agreed to set aside $10 million and pay up to $8.9 million in attorneys' fees to settle antitrust claims that the organization unfairly capped costs that can be covered under a student's athletic scholarship.

  • January 30, 2008

    DOE Pulls Plug On FutureGen Clean-Coal Plant

    The U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday that it is pulling out of its significant financial role in the FutureGen Alliance clean-coal power plant in Mattoon, Ill., and restructuring its coal program.

  • January 30, 2008

    Sonnenschein Lures Litigator From Locke Lord

    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP has lured a veteran trial attorney from Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP into the fold at its Dallas office, a move that litigator Michael Moore says comes as national firms are increasingly seeking to establish or bolster their presence in Texas.

  • January 30, 2008

    AIG Pays $12.5M To Settle Bid-Rigging Claims

    Insurance and investment company American International Group Inc. has agreed to pay $12.5 million to nine states and the District of Columbia to put to rest allegations that the company participated in a bid-rigging scheme in the commercial insurance market.

  • January 30, 2008

    IP Partner Brings Energy Experience To Bracewell

    Todd Mattingly, an intellectual property lawyer formerly of King & Spalding LLP who has extensive experience in energy patent work, has joined Bracewell & Giuliani's Houston office, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • January 29, 2008

    Judge Spurns State's Late Bid For Unclaimed $4.6M

    A judge has refused a bid by the state of Texas to recoup more than $4.6 million of unclaimed settlement money from the settlement of a class action against oil companies that conspired to underpay leaseholders' royalties, telling the state it had waited too long to act.

  • January 29, 2008

    House Dems Raise Stink Over Formaldehyde Report

    A group of House Democrats has accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of trying to bury scientific evidence regarding the long-term consequences of exposure to formaldehyde, the toxin allegedly found in dangerous levels in the trailers FEMA provided to people left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

  • January 29, 2008

    Fujitsu Suit Targets Tellabs' Alleged Infringement

    Fujitsu Ltd. and a California subsidiary have accused Tellabs Inc. of willfully infringing four of their patents related to optical communications products.

  • January 30, 2008

    Bid To Stop ITC Proceedings Tossed In Tessera Suit

    A federal judge on Monday shot down STMicroelectronics NV's move to stop chip maker Tessera Inc. from participating in International Trade Commission proceedings against it, finding that the products under investigation by the commission were not covered by a license defense.

  • January 28, 2008

    Evidence Over Qui Tam Pay To Govt. Official Barred

    A District of Columbia federal judge has barred the nonprofit group Project on Government Oversight from presenting evidence regarding allegedly illegal payments made to a government employee in a whistleblower action against oil companies.

  • January 28, 2008

    Suddenlink Sued Over Video-On-Demand Service

    Cable company Suddenlink Communications was hit with a lawsuit Friday that accuses it of infringing a patent related to video-on-demand technology.

  • January 28, 2008

    Andersen Partner, SEC Settle Enron Audit Case

    A former partner at Arthur Andersen LLP who audited Enron Corp.'s financial statements has settled a civil action brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the SEC said Monday.

  • January 28, 2008

    Visto, RIM Patent Trial Starts Up In The U.K.

    The United Kingdom's High Court of Justice has begun hearing a case between Visto Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. over e-mail messaging technology in the first of many lawsuits across the globe between the two companies to go to trial.

  • January 28, 2008

    Wal-Mart Cleared Of Sex Offender's Bias Claim

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been cleared of Title VII violation claims that its alleged policy against hiring registered sex offenders is discriminatory, because the civil rights law does not recognize sex offenders as a protected class.

  • January 29, 2008

    Legal Industry Growth To Slow In 2008: Report

    After a somewhat promising first half of 2007, the U.S. legal profession slid into tougher times amid the subprime mortgage meltdown and other economic woes. As a result, the industry's growth will slow in 2008, according to the latest client advisory from legal consultancy Hildebrandt International and Citi Private Bank.

  • January 25, 2008

    Enron Demands $9M To Cover Settlement Shortfall

    The successor to Enron Corp. has asked a federal court to force Hewitt Associates LLC to pay $9.15 million to cover a settlement fund shortfall caused by a mistake in calculation.

  • January 25, 2008

    Vague Phrase In Patent Invalidates Claim: Court

    An appellate judge has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a patent lawsuit brought by Halliburton Energy Services Inc. against rival M-I LLC, agreeing with the lower court that a key term in the patent was vague enough that the patent claims could not be construed.

  • January 28, 2008

    Financial Co. Is Lawyers' "Puppetmaster": Debtors

    A bankrupt couple has filed a putative class action against Fidelity National Information Services Inc., accusing the financial data processing company of being the “secret puppetmaster” of creditors' attorneys in bankruptcy cases.