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Dentons, McKenna Long Confirm Merger Talks

Dentons, McKenna Long Confirm Merger Talks

Am Law 100 firms McKenna Long & Aldridge and Dentons confirmed late Monday that they are discussing a potential tie-up that would create a firm with 3,100 lawyers around the world. Read More »


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The Bo Xilai Trial and Rule of Law in China

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• The Bo Xilai Trial and Rule of Law in China

• DLA Piper Adds Beijing IP Partner

• London's Stone Chambers Opens Singapore Office

• Linklaters, Weil Head $4 Billion Acquisition of Grohe Group

• Clifford Chance Helps Haitong With $715 Million Buy

• Allens Advises Billabong on Financing Lifeline

The Bo Xilai Trial and Rule of Law in China

China/Hong Kong

Professor Jerome Cohen and others weigh in on whether China's biggest trial in a generation has changed anything. Read More »

DLA Piper Adds Beijing IP Partner

China/Hong Kong

Horace Lam was previously a partner in the Beijing office of Jones Day. Read More »

London's Stone Chambers Opens Singapore Office

Singapore

It's the latest barristers' chambers to open an Asian outpost. Read More »

Linklaters, Weil Head $4 Billion Acquisition of Grohe Group

Japan

Japanese building materials giant Lixil Corp. is buying the German bathroom fixtures maker as part of a global expansion drive. Read More »

Clifford Chance Helps Haitong With $715 Million Buy

China/Hong Kong

The Chinese brokerage firm is acquiring a leasing business from U.S. private equity giant TPG. Read More »

Allens Advises Billabong on Financing Lifeline

Australia

The struggling Australian surfware company has struck a deal with two private equity groups for over $500 million in financing. Read More »



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In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

NEwS FROM WASHINGTON

• In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

• Heath Care Attorneys Watch Capitol Hill Budget Battle

• DOJ Wants Charges Dropped Against Former Blackwater Guard

• Court Dismisses Palestinian President's Son's Libel Suit

• D.C. Circuit Hears Guantanamo Detainee Challenge

• SEC Chief Litigation Counsel Stepping Down

In Government Shutdown, Civil Litigation Takes Hit

The U.S. Department of Justice would curtail or postpone civil litigation during a government shutdown and would furlough 17,742 employees, or about 15 percent of its workforce starting tomorrow, according to a contingency plan. While many Justice... Read More »

Heath Care Attorneys Watch Capitol Hill Budget Battle

Health care attorneys and their clients are less worried about a government shutdown than any changes to the Affordable Care Act that might come out of budget negotiations. "In large part, most of the clients are proceeding with business as... Read More »

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DOJ Wants Charges Dropped Against Former Blackwater Guard

Prosecutors today asked a Washington judge to dismiss charges against one of five former private security guards in the 2007 shooting deaths of more than a dozen Iraqis in Baghdad. The decision, announced in a court filing in U.S. District... Read More »

Court Dismisses Palestinian President's Son's Libel Suit

A Washington federal judge has dismissed a defamation suit the son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas brought against the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine. Yasser Abbas sued Foreign Policy and Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation... Read More »

D.C. Circuit Hears Guantanamo Detainee Challenge

The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments today in a case that could undo a terrorism conviction and reshape how the government prosecutes criminal charges against other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The... Read More »

SEC Chief Litigation Counsel Stepping Down

Less than three months after a federal jury found former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president Fabrice Tourre liable for securities fraud, Matthew Martens, the Securities and Exchange Commission's lead trial counsel on the case, is leaving the agency. Martens... Read More »

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INSIDE WASHINGTON

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• INSIDE WASHINGTON

• Harmony in Antitrust Enforcement

• Precedents on the Line in New Term

• Top 10 Cases on Supreme Court Docket for 2013-2014 Term

• How Far is Too Far in Seeking Confidentiality?

• Two Wrongs Make it Worse in Cops' Retrial

• Beyond the Ping-Pong Table: Lessons for Lawyers From Startup Companies

• Enough With the At-Work Kissing

• Town Abandons Claim to Nation's First Patent

• VOIR DIRE: NFL vs. M.I.A.

INSIDE WASHINGTON

Our annual report on law firms and lobbying shops in the nation's capital. Read More »

Harmony in Antitrust Enforcement

For decades, antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have squabbled over turf, but now the two agencies are moving toward a rare level of rapport. Read More »

Precedents on the Line in New Term

The Roberts Court will confront pleas to reconsider or overrule a number of key decisions undergirding hot-button issues on the new term's docket. Will the justices take baby steps or the giant strides the activists prefer as another critical term unfolds? Read More »

Top 10 Cases on Supreme Court Docket for 2013-2014 Term

The justices face a broad range of issues, ranging from abortion to prayer in public places, campaign finance to affirmative action. Here, at a glance, are 10 of the cases most worth following. Read More »

How Far is Too Far in Seeking Confidentiality?

An administrative law judge in a matter recently applied, albeit reluctantly, the National Labor Relations Board's controversial rule prohibiting an employer from even asking employees making a complaint not to discuss the matter with their co-workers. Read More »

Two Wrongs Make it Worse in Cops' Retrial

In the Internet age, as word of prosecutorial misconduct spreads more widely and patterns seem to emerge, judicial confidence in prosecutors may be waning. Read More »

Beyond the Ping-Pong Table: Lessons for Lawyers From Startup Companies

The legal field has remained tone deaf to the lessons of America's startup culture. That's unfortunate, because startups can serve as a model for innovative, efficient and invigorating work environments. Read More »

Enough With the At-Work Kissing

Have you noticed that business folks are now behaving like homecoming queen contestants when they see each other? Read More »

Town Abandons Claim to Nation's First Patent

For decades, Vermont residents believed that Samuel Hopkins, who in 1790 was granted the nation's first patent, lived in Pittsford. Even when evidence was presented to show this was untrue, citizens of Pittsford clung to the myth. It appears, however, that the state has now informed them it's time to let go. Read More »

VOIR DIRE: NFL vs. M.I.A.

One might reasonably have expected controversy when the National Football League invited Madonna to play the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012. Surprisingly, the controversy didn't involve Madonna herself. Plus: revelations of inflated revenues, and minding one's manners in this week's column. Read More »



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The Global Lawyer: Europe's Patent Troll

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• The Global Lawyer: Europe's Patent Troll

• Facebook Can't Knock Out Antitrust Claims by Kickflip

• GeoTag Patent Claims Get Green Light, Again

• EA Settles Suit Over College Athletes' Images

• Ecuadorians Lose Bid to Boot Chevron Judge Ahead of N.Y. Trial

• Litigator of the Week: Gregory Stone of Munger Tolles & Olson



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