The Path to the Annie's GC Office

Headlines »  The Path to the Annie's GC Office »  The War On Cybercrime: How Far Can You Go? »  High Hopes for PTO's Silicon Valley Branch »  Rackspace GC Goes Public With 'Patent Troll' Strategy »  Feds Spent Billions to Resolve Suits in 2012 »  Recycling Secondary Manufacturing Materials »  Judge Recommends Tossing Counterclaims in Fraud Suit Against Chevron Plaintiffs »  Wilmer Helps Longtime Gene Client Clinch $13.6 Billion Merger »  On Gene Patents, Court Ponders Nature vs. Nurture »  Ropes Adds Details to Defense Against Ex-Associate's Bias Claim The Path to the Annie's GC Office Isobel Jones started her latest in-house job at the beginning of April, as the first general counsel for the organic food company Annie's Inc. Read More » The War On Cybercrime: How Far Can You Go? Given the potential loss of the most sensitive assets, information, and trade secrets, companies must develop an integrated, proactive strategy to prevent, respond to, and deter the massive and growing problem of cybercrime. Read More » High Hopes for PTO's Silicon Valley Branch The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Silicon Valley's arrival is a big deal for patent lawyers and companies who count intellectual property among their most valuable assets. Read More » Rackspace GC Goes Public With 'Patent Troll' Strategy Attorneys for companies across the U.S. deal with litigation involving so-called "patent trolls" on a regular basis, but recently Alan Schoenbaum, general counsel for Rackspace, has been going online to lay out his anti-troll strategy in public. Read More » Feds Spent Billions to Resolve Suits in 2012 The federal government spent more than $4 billion to resolve lawsuits last year, a $1.3 billion increase from spending in 2011, an analysis of government records shows. Read More » Recycling Secondary Manufacturing Materials The quantity of waste materials generated and disposed in the United States is staggering. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that we generate annually approximately 250 million tons of municipal solid waste, 7.6 billion tons of industrial solid waste (including wastewater) and over 34 million tons of hazardous waste. Read More » Judge Recommends Tossing Counterclaims in Fraud Suit Against Chevron Plaintiffs Steven Donziger, the U.S. plaintiffs lawyer who helped to win a $19 billion environmental judgment against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador, can't bring counterclaims in Chevron's fraud and racketeering case against him, a magistrate judge concluded on Monday. Read More » Wilmer Helps Longtime Gene Client Clinch $13.6 Billion Merger A team of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr lawyers are advising Waltham, Massachusetts-based health care and laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific on its $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies Corp., creating a genetic testing giant. Lawyers from Wachtell Lipton, Latham & Watkins, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore are also working on the proposed transaction. Read More » On Gene Patents, Court Ponders Nature vs. Nurture Chocolate chip cookies. Baseball bats. Amazon plants. Not a game show quiz, but hypotheticals by U.S. Supreme Court justices trying to decide whether human genes should be patented. Read More » Ropes Adds Details to Defense Against Ex-Associate's Bias Claim In new filings made in connection with former associate John Ray III's bias suit against it, Ropes & Gray explains why barring Ray from entering its Boston headquarters and refusing to provide him with a promised recommendation letter were not acts of retaliation prompted by his decision to complain to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about how the firm had treated him. Read More »

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