Ways to quell the feud between legal and sales

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Ways to quell the feud between legal and sales

Feuds have been, and probably always will be, a fact of human existence. They always involve competing interests and a clash of cultures and personalities. England vs. France. Or the Red Sox vs. the Yankees. Feuds go on in business ...

Supreme Court ruling in eBay hasn’t precluded injunctions for patent infringement

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Supreme Court ruling in eBay hasn’t precluded injunctions for patent infringement

Patent injunctions are still alive and well in the wake of the Supreme Court's decison.

The painful evolution of SOX §404

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on The painful evolution of SOX §404

Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through; first from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do? Show me! (My Fair Lady). The problem with understanding how to comply with §404 ...

Ignoring suspicious business deals abroad can be costly

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Ignoring suspicious business deals abroad can be costly

Federal prosecutors have recently conducted a number of high-profile investigations and prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1 et seq.), which prohibits U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business. Some examples ...

Recent rulings weaken attorney-client privilege in corporate context

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Recent rulings weaken attorney-client privilege in corporate context

Recent decisions have weakened the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context, and serve as a caution that the privilege is not sacrosanct.

Supreme Court ruling in MedImmune alters dynamics of patent licenses

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Supreme Court ruling in MedImmune alters dynamics of patent licenses

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a patent licensee need not have to breach its license agreement in order to file a declaratory judgment action for non-infringement, invalidity, or unenforceability (MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.). The court’s decision in ...

Case Law For In-House Counsel

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Case Law For In-House Counsel

Below are summaries of important opinions affecting in-house attorneys issued by the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the 1st and 2nd Circuits, the Delaware Supreme Court, and the Delaware Chancery Court from mid-January 2007 through early March 2007. Readers ...

Companies need to pay attention to employee blogs

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Companies need to pay attention to employee blogs

Vaughn Liebowitz leaves her 9-to-5 job at ABC Corp. (ABC), a publicly traded company, and heads home to begin her non-paying job as “Vaughn at Night”, a blog enjoying over 10,000 hits per day. “Vaughn at Night” cover’s Liebowitz’s musings ...

Leaving law for a business role: The risks and rewards

March 22, 2007 Comments Off on Leaving law for a business role: The risks and rewards

Until 1991, Steven S. Fischman was a successful real estate partner and member of the executive committee at Boston-based Goulston & Storrs, representing developers and owners of all types of commercial real estate. Although the commercial real market 1991 was ...