Headlines • ABA Moves Toward Allowing Paid Student Externships • Harsh Sanctions Imposed Against Defense in Actos Suit • Litigation Over Anti-Clot Drug Plavix Continues To Mount in New Jersey • Judge Rebukes MoFo Over Apple v. Samsung Closing • From Oscar Parties to 'Inter Partes': An Intellectual Property Special Report • Dissenters Pose Bigger Risks to Corporate Deals • VOIR DIRE: Jeer Leaders • ABA Report Lacking Solutions for Law Schools • D.C. Moves • Wall Street Firm Bolsters High Court Practice An American Bar Association panel has recommended the organization drop its prohibition against law students receiving both academic credit and money for externships and externships. Read More » The first federal trial on claims tying prescription drug Actos to bladder cancer took a hostile turn after a judge concluded the defendants deliberately deleted key evidence. Read More » Lawsuits alleging health and financial injury from the anti-blood-clot drug Plavix are piling up in New Jersey following the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation's decision to centralize them here. Read More » U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh delivered a stern rebuke to Apple's lawyers for seemingly appealing to nationalism and xenophobia at the company's damages retrial against Korean rival Samsung. Read More » We range widely in this look at the state of intellectual property law, beginning with the legal complications attorneys need to consider when negotiating endorsement deals with the stars. We also investigate the renewed respect being paid to the "indefiniteness" defense against business-method patents. Finally, "inter partes" review — an attempt to streamline patent disputes — may in some cases make the process more difficult. Read More » The appraisal rights of shareholders that object to mergers and acquisitions are gaining strength. Read More » A co-captain of the Oakland Raiders cheerleaders has joined a fellow Raiderette in a lawsuit accusing the team of wage theft. Plus singers carve out publicity rights in this week's column. Read More » Task force offers plenty of criticism — especially of faculty scholarship — without practical advice. Read More » Law firm personnel changes in metropolitan Washington D.C. Read More » Jeffrey Wall is the latest lawyer to decamp the U.S. solicitor general's office to lead or co-lead a major law firm's appellate practice. But Wall traveled a slightly different path when he left last fall, signing on as special counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street titan, rather than heading to a Washington or Chicago firm with deep experience at the high court. Read More » | 
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