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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

(Image via Getty)Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories...

Dear Bar Examiners: We Still Need Breast-Pumping Accommodations

[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 Laura Sexton back to our pages. ...

Another Top Biglaw Firm's Ransomware Attack Shows The Importance Of Cybersecurity

[photo1]When people think of legal movies, they usually think of Legally Blonde or My Cousin Vinny. But times are changing -- they'd be better served if they thought about Blackhat. Attorney-client pr...

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...

Oral Arguments Are Often Not Needed Since Many Judicial Decisions Are Predetermined

[photo1]During motion practice and appeals, courts are tasked with making decisions based on the legal reasoning contained in briefs and any accompanying evidence a litigant might present to a court. ...

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...

Biglaw Partner's Furious Tirades Go Viral Revealing Family Tragedy

[photo1]"I ask that you please keep telling my story so that the truth is known far and wide," wrote Catherine Youssef Kassenoff in her final Facebook post. The former EDNY prosecutor and special coun...

How Overture Law Is Revolutionizing Referral Fees

[photo1]Generating new business is never easy. Servicing all of your clients' needs can be even harder.For independent attorneys and small law firms it can be especially challenging. These lawyers all...

The Diablo IV (not) review

This is not a review of Diablo IV. It can't be. During the review period, the game was missing a key feature: the shop. Which, if you consider what happened the last time (and with Diablo Immortal), b...

Beware of These Scams the Next Time You Move

It's June, prime moving season is in full swing, and so are moving scams. Relocating to a new home is always stressful, but there are steps you can take to avoid falling for a con job that will make ...

Matter makes Govee's new light strip more functional but less fun

The $59.99 Govee LED Strip Light M1 Matter is the first Matter-compatible product from Govee, a smart lighting company known for its wide range of cheap and colorful lights. Only the second light stri...

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...

The CA Bar Wants You To Stay Vigilant Of Your Coworkers -- See Also

[photo1]California's Bar Really Wants To Avoid Another Tom Girardi: Prepare to tattle tell!This Founding Partner Decided To Part Ways: It's like if the kid who brough...

Krafton to relaunch BGMI mobile game in India, a year after ban

The South Korean giant Krafton has secured the approval from the Indian authorities to resume operations of Battlegrounds Mobile India, a popular India-focused battle royale mobile game that the firm ...

When to Avoid Cleaning With Hot Water

When you look up how to clean them something, you inevitably find that you're instructed to use cold or hot water. But really, what's the difference?

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May 2023

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...

Returning To In-Person Oral Arguments

[photo1]During the COVID-19 pandemic, many courts began holding virtual oral arguments in order to keep people socially distanced. Although this led to a few foul-ups in the beginning, most attorneys ...

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 ...

Who's Responsible For The Death Of Jordan Neely?

[photo1]A young man was killed last week because he was acting erratically on a New York City subway.With the ensuing protests, potential criminal investigation, and information coming to light that N...

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...