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Morning Docket: 07.27.23

(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)* Hunter Biden's plea deal has hit a snag. Yesterday, he pleaded not guilty to charges against him as the judge questioned the terms of the agreement. [NBC News]* Si...

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Patently messy: How a $6B deal may spur more IP lawsuits

A megabucks enterprise acquisition that closed six months ago could lead to thousands of patents landing on the open market.Last August, Canadian enterprise technology giant OpenText announced plans t...

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My Experience With Maternity Leave And Changes I Helped Make As A Partner

(Image via Getty)Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Breanne Gordon to our p...

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Where We Are At The End Of The Supreme Court's 2022 Term

[photo1]Recently there has been quite a bit of discussion on social media and in the press regarding inferences we can make from data on Supreme Court justices' behavior. One critique raised was that ...

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The 2023 Outside Counsel Rankings: The Top Law Firms According To In-House Counsel

[photo1]We are pleased to announce the release of our sixth annual ranking of the Top Outside Counsel in partnership with our friends at Lake Whillans. To compile this list of the nation's top law fir...

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First Rule Of Re-Filing: Don't Submit It 3 Months After The Date You Request

[photo1]Experience is the best teacher. That said, once you already got dinged for "turn[ing] in the poorest performance by an attorney that the undersigned has seen during his 12-plus years on the be...

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Cooking Up IP Literacy

[photo1]When I first wrote about a podcast appearance by famous chef Dave Chang, our president was still Barack Obama. In that column, I highlighted the benefit of teasing out lessons for success in l...

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'Legal Tech Lists': 5 Lawyer Tropes Upended By Legal Tech (Remote Litigation Edition)

[photo1]In the past few weeks we've identified, analyzed, and rectified 10 lawyer tropes (see here and here), perpetuated by cultural staples but abruptly upended by legal technology. Remote litigatio...

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Term Update: We Haven't Seen This In Over 25 Years

[photo1]So far this term, the liberal justices on the Supreme Court only have a combined four dissents through 26 argued and signed decisions. That is about a 5% dissent rate. For some perspective, th...

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From Biglaw To Freelance Law: How Pivoting To Freelance Work Helped Me Find Balance As A Military Spouse And Mom

[photo1]Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Michelle Camp to our pages. Clic...

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Supremely Important IP Decisions

[photo1]When SCOTUS speaks, the intellectual property world has no choice but to take notice. And while we wait for the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in the Jack Daniel's parody case whose oral ar...

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Holding The Infringer's Cup

[photo1]Last week, we took a look on these pages at some things we could learn from a pretrial order in a hotly contested patent dispute between two consumer products giants, Sonos and Google. This we...

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The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits

Even the temperate, mountainous country of Switzerland isn't immune to climate change. Sizzling heat waves are melting alpine glaciers, killing trees and fish and, in the cities, likely causing an upt...

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3 Takeaways From A Patent Pretrial Order In Google v. Sonos Case

[photo1]The eyes of the patent world -- and many on Wall Street as well -- are focused on Judge William Alsup's downtown San Francisco courtroom. The reason for all the fuss? The long-awaited patent ...

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Restraining Trade

[photo1]Normalcy is returning to global trade, as evidenced by the return of physical attendees to the Canton Fair after a multiyear COVID-19 induced break. In the words of the Chinese government: "As...

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