Features

• Political Priorities

  By Mary Swanton

  What the 2008 election means to the in-house bar.

Profile

• Legal Longevity

  By Cathleen Flahardy

  Kelly McNamara Corley's dedication to an in-house career has carried her to the top legal spot at Discover Financial Services.

Litigation

• Arbitration Attack

  By Melissa Maleske

  The Arbitration Fairness Act is still on the horizon, and it has business interests concerned.

IP

• TLD Trouble

  By Steven Seidenberg

  ICANN's plan to allow unlimited domain names may burden trademark owners.

Labor

• RIF Risks

  By Mary Swanton

  Companies face layoff liability as the economy falters.

Technology

• Keysearch Clarity

  By Keith Ecker

  Victor Stanley provides guidance on the use of keysearch terms for privilege review.

Regulatory

• Work Product Wars

  By Julius Melnitzer

  Appeals courts consider whether tax accrual documents are privileged.

Global

• Simplified Structure

  By Julius Melnitzer

  EC gives SMEs and private companies the right to register as European entities.

From The Editor

• Making Adjustments

  By Cathleen Flahardy

  Defining myself as a "writer" is something I've done since I was young. From the day I read my first finished poem--a 10-line masterpiece, in ...

Inside Perspective

• Deploying Diversity

  By Laurie Robinson

  The in-house bar should step up and make diversity a legal department priority.

Circuits

• Colorado Law Ends Taboo on Wage Comparison Talk

  By Staff Writer

  Employees allowed to discuss wages.

• Sex Ruling Could Trigger Flood of Disability Claims

  By Dave Wieczorek

  Court rules sex qualifies as major life activity.

• California Courts Rethink Rest Break Rules

  By Adele Nicholas

  See results of a survey on the rise of wage and hour litigation here. Brinker Restaurant Corp. was in deep trouble. In 2005, ...

• Free Speech Case Can Be Title VII Lesson for Employers

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  A university is supposed to be a marketplace of free ideas. But Christian DeJohn, a graduate student at Temple University in Philadelphia, said the university's ...

• Circuit Roundup

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  4th CircuitEmployer Had Right to Remove UnionThe 4th Circuit ruled July 25 in NLRB v. B.A. Mullican Lumber & Mfg. Co. that an employer correctly ...

Career Talk

• Laifman joins Reading International as GC

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  Jay S. Laifman says he's excited at the opportunity to head the legal department at Reading International Inc., a Commerce, Calif.-based cinema exhibition and real ...

• Tidewater names new GC

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  Tidewater Inc. in New Orleans has promoted Bruce D. Lundstrom to executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Lundstrom most recently was Tidewater's senior ...

• Xunlight Corp. names Soulder new GC

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  Toledo, Ohio-based Xunlight Corp., a developer of solar modules, has hired W. Granger Souder Jr. as vice president and general counsel. Souder joins Xunlight from ...

Inside Non-Profits

• Making Minutes

  By Bruce D. Collins

  Non-profits find good governance in keeping meeting minutes.

Online Exclusive

• Former McAfee GC Acquitted on Backdating Charges

  By Staff Writer

  After a two-and-a-half week trial, former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts was acquitted Friday of criminal charges stemming from backdated stock options.

• Wage and Hour Issues

  By Staff Writer

  Read more about wage and hour lawsuits in the 9th Circuit here.A recent survey of 2,000 legal, ethics and HR professionals by California-based ELT (Employment ...

• The Arbitration Debate

  By Staff Writer

  To read more about the debate and the Arbitration Fairness Act, click here. To highlight the difficulty of untangling sets of numbers, Mark Twain ...

• Insider Outlook

  By Mary Swanton

  Read the feature story on what the 2008 election means to the in-house bar here. Two of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's Washington, D.C. ...

• Multimedia Games hires Clinton as GC

  By Yesenia Salcedo

  Multimedia Games Inc. in Austin, Texas, has named Uri L. Clinton general counsel and corporate secretary. Most recently Clinton was vice president of legal ...

Corporate Crime

• The Hot Seat

  By Steven Andersen

  Increasingly, criminal liability passes to the general counsel.