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Big Firm Blocks Employee Access to Personal Email Accounts
May 11, 2013
Citing security concerns, a major law firm has blocked its workers from accessing their personal email on its computers. In...
May 11, 2013
Citing security concerns, a major law firm has blocked its workers from accessing their personal email on its computers. In...
AT&T Also Announces A 1 Gig Broadband Network for Austin
May 11, 2013
And not to be outdone by Google in its backyard, AT&T on Tuesday also announced plans to deliver a 1 Gigabit broadband network to Austin. “Most encouraging is the recognition by government officials that policies which eliminate unnecessary regulation, lower costs and speed infrastructure deployment, can be a meaningful catalyst to additional investment in advanced networks which drives employment and economic growth,” Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO, said in a news release. AT&T...
May 11, 2013
And not to be outdone by Google in its backyard, AT&T on Tuesday also announced plans to deliver a 1 Gigabit broadband network to Austin. “Most encouraging is the recognition by government officials that policies which eliminate unnecessary regulation, lower costs and speed infrastructure deployment, can be a meaningful catalyst to additional investment in advanced networks which drives employment and economic growth,” Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO, said in a news release. AT&T...
Google Officially Announces Google Fiber Coming to Austin
May 11, 2013
Google fiber is coming to Austin. It’s only the second city to get the Google fiber network which began rolling out in Kansas City, Kan. last year. Google officials made the announcementTuesday morning at a packed Brazos Hall conference center downtown filled with more than 100 local and state business officials, politicians and media representatives. The room erupted into applause when Google officially announced the fiber network for Austin with a wall-sized slide that proclaimed: “Hello,...
May 11, 2013
Google fiber is coming to Austin. It’s only the second city to get the Google fiber network which began rolling out in Kansas City, Kan. last year. Google officials made the announcementTuesday morning at a packed Brazos Hall conference center downtown filled with more than 100 local and state business officials, politicians and media representatives. The room erupted into applause when Google officially announced the fiber network for Austin with a wall-sized slide that proclaimed: “Hello,...
Is the Supreme Court Moving Towards a Preemptive Federal Arbitration Procedural Paradigm?
May 10, 2013
Ronald Aronovsky, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School has published an interesting law review article entitled, The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration: Towards a Preemptive Federal Arbitration Procedural Paradigm?, 42 Southwestern Law Review, Number 1, Spring 2013. In his article, Professor Aronovsky examines a number of recent Supreme Court decisions related to the preemptive power of the Federal Arbitration Act. Here is a portion of the introduction: Adopted by Congress...
May 10, 2013
Ronald Aronovsky, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School has published an interesting law review article entitled, The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration: Towards a Preemptive Federal Arbitration Procedural Paradigm?, 42 Southwestern Law Review, Number 1, Spring 2013. In his article, Professor Aronovsky examines a number of recent Supreme Court decisions related to the preemptive power of the Federal Arbitration Act. Here is a portion of the introduction: Adopted by Congress...
Obama Orders Government to Open Data; Hopes Entrepreneurs Create Next GPS
May 10, 2013
President Barack Obama's jobs agenda is going nowhere in Congress, so he's taking steps on his own to boost the economy by opening more government data to entrepreneurs and starting new manufacturing innovation institutes. Today the president issued an executive order that requires that data generated by government agencies be made available to the public in open, machine-readable formats when information systems are replaced or modernized. The White House hopes that entrepreneurs will use this...
May 10, 2013
President Barack Obama's jobs agenda is going nowhere in Congress, so he's taking steps on his own to boost the economy by opening more government data to entrepreneurs and starting new manufacturing innovation institutes. Today the president issued an executive order that requires that data generated by government agencies be made available to the public in open, machine-readable formats when information systems are replaced or modernized. The White House hopes that entrepreneurs will use this...
Lawyer Who Turned Down $8M Settlement Wins $130M in Retrial
May 10, 2013
A New York lawyer says he feels vindicated after winning $130 million for a medical malpractice client in a third trial of the case. Lawyer Thomas Moore had turned down an $8 million settlement before the first trial in 2009 and then lost the case, the New York Post reports. An appeals court ordered a retrial, which ended last year in a hung jury. Moore won $130 million this week in a Suffolk County trial. The suit had claimed St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson erred during the birth...
May 10, 2013
A New York lawyer says he feels vindicated after winning $130 million for a medical malpractice client in a third trial of the case. Lawyer Thomas Moore had turned down an $8 million settlement before the first trial in 2009 and then lost the case, the New York Post reports. An appeals court ordered a retrial, which ended last year in a hung jury. Moore won $130 million this week in a Suffolk County trial. The suit had claimed St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson erred during the birth...
Burford Inks Deal with Chevron, Says Patton Boggs Hid Truth About Ecuadorian Plaintiffs
May 10, 2013
In its effort to discredit lawyers holding an allegedly fraudulent $19 billion environmental judgment against it, Chevron Corporation has found an unlikely ally: Burford Capital, the world's largest litigation financing company, which in 2010 agreed to invest up to $15 million in the worldwide effort to enforce the mega-judgment.
May 10, 2013
In its effort to discredit lawyers holding an allegedly fraudulent $19 billion environmental judgment against it, Chevron Corporation has found an unlikely ally: Burford Capital, the world's largest litigation financing company, which in 2010 agreed to invest up to $15 million in the worldwide effort to enforce the mega-judgment.
Howrey’s Bankruptcy and Big Law Firms’ Small Future
May 10, 2013
For corporate clients, there’s a potential silver lining in Big Law’s disarray. From 2007 through 2009, firms with more than 500 lawyers saw their billable hours decline by more than 5 percent. They unloaded associates by the thousands. While the billable-hours drought has eased with the economic recovery, companies increasingly are demanding better deals on rates, says Adam Epstein, a San Francisco-based board consultant for small-cap corporations. “The law firm brands don’t matter as much...
May 10, 2013
For corporate clients, there’s a potential silver lining in Big Law’s disarray. From 2007 through 2009, firms with more than 500 lawyers saw their billable hours decline by more than 5 percent. They unloaded associates by the thousands. While the billable-hours drought has eased with the economic recovery, companies increasingly are demanding better deals on rates, says Adam Epstein, a San Francisco-based board consultant for small-cap corporations. “The law firm brands don’t matter as much...
The Citation and Depreciation of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent
May 10, 2013
An enduring piece of legal wisdom contends that the value of court opinions depreciates as they age and a variety of factors lead some cases to depreciate faster than others. We measure depreciation as the change in the frequency with which Supreme Court cases are cited as a function of their age. We then examine whether the rate of depreciation varies systematically based on ideological considerations, opinion characteristics, and citation history. Our results indicate, first, that precedents depreciate...
May 10, 2013
An enduring piece of legal wisdom contends that the value of court opinions depreciates as they age and a variety of factors lead some cases to depreciate faster than others. We measure depreciation as the change in the frequency with which Supreme Court cases are cited as a function of their age. We then examine whether the rate of depreciation varies systematically based on ideological considerations, opinion characteristics, and citation history. Our results indicate, first, that precedents depreciate...
ALM Legal Intelligence Tracks Alternative Fee Arrangements, More Law Tech News
May 10, 2013
A report released Thursday by ALM Legal Intelligence, ALM Media's provider of business information to the legal industry, showed more corporate clients using alternative fee arrangements in 2012 to determine how to pay outside counsel. The survey found that 19 percent of corporate legal departments used AFAs for more than half of their legal work, a 12 percent increase over 2011, and 51 percent said the volume of AFAs increased in 2012. To download the report, go to http://at.law.com/AFAReport..
May 10, 2013
A report released Thursday by ALM Legal Intelligence, ALM Media's provider of business information to the legal industry, showed more corporate clients using alternative fee arrangements in 2012 to determine how to pay outside counsel. The survey found that 19 percent of corporate legal departments used AFAs for more than half of their legal work, a 12 percent increase over 2011, and 51 percent said the volume of AFAs increased in 2012. To download the report, go to http://at.law.com/AFAReport..
