June 2010 »
Features
What in-house attorneys need to know....
How to cut out the primordial paper and advance your billing system. ...
Profile
Angela Ciccolo joins the Special Olympics legal team from the NAACP....
Departments
Litigation
The Supreme Court decision upholds a decades-long standard....
IP
ACTA may replace global IP treaties with an international
regime more favorable to IP owners....
Labor
A series of lawsuits have tested the boundaries of employees' rights to use the drug off-duty....
Technology
Legal departments reap greater efficiencies by trimming paper use....
Regulatory
The agency reacts swiftly to the D.C. Circuit's decision in Comcast v. FCC....
Global
But in addition to new questions, it offers some guidance....
Corporate Crime
The case presents a striking example of one of the worst situations in-house counsel can face: potential criminal liability for a company and its executives in worker deaths....
Also Inside
From The Editor
Sit back, enjoy your summer, and let InsideCounsel do the work of keeping you in-the-know on the most topical information general counsel need....
Inside Perspective
A few simple practices while making a job transition may ease the process....
Circuits
Expert evidence must be scientifically reliable....
The 9th Circuit addresses the issue for the first time....
Court gives Citizens United its first major application.
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Broad Reading of Rule 10b-5 Nixed; Court Expects More Judicial Googling; Female Trucker Wins Bias Suit; Data Suppressed in “Reckless” Search ...
Career Talk
"A good general counsel should be a good business person."...
Inside Non-Profits
Citizens United may throw the non-profit sector into chaos....
Driving Diversity
In-house counsel should communicate to outside counsel
that diversity really does matter....
Paying It Forward
The company's pro bono program celebrates 10 years of successful work....
Online Exclusive
Provision requires public reporting of all payments to doctors and teaching hospitals....
Jones v. Harris Associates reached the Supreme Court after a showdown between two of the most well known judges on the 7th Circuit....
Repeat copyright infringers could have their Internet access blocked....
Employers face challenges with employees who smoke marijuana legally....
Six suggestions for a successful conversion....
It's the country’s first piece of legislation to affect personal data....
Kristen Keller talks about the potential and difficulties of a criminal case in this type of disaster....
Comments due by June 28....
Exigency leaves and caregiver leave provisions extended....
District Court upholds soft money provisions of campaign act....
New players embrace old way of doing business....
If you think that “up there” e-discovery is not as far along as in the U.S., think again....