LOS ANGELES, June 5, 2014– Criminal Defense Attorney David R. Cohn, a partner at Wallin & Klarich, A Law Corporation, used social media as a tool to help get charges of forcible rape, sodomy by force and felony domestic violence dismissed for a client. As part of the defense, Attorney Cohn uncovered thousands of messages […]
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Research published by Allen & Overy todaydemonstrates surprising support for Europe’s hotly debated Unified Patent Court, with almost three-quarters (74%) of those responsible for overseeing preparations for the new system expecting it to be positive for their company – and only 15% expect it to have negative consequences for them. While on the big question
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How does a law firm gain business online? People are increasingly using social media, not law directories, business cards and law firm web pages to find them. They come from Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. What’s a poor law firm to do to attract online attention? LexBlog publisher Kevin O’Keefe works with lawyers to
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By Scott F. Llewellyn and Ryan J. Malloy In a unanimous and unequivocal opinion, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that liability for inducement of patent infringement requires that the induced entity itself perform every element of a claim, and thus directly infringe. Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Techs., Inc., No. 12 – 786 (June 2,
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles physician who operates a medical clinic in Hollywood was indicted today for a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California, Special Agent in Charge Glenn R.
LOS ANGELES – The former CEO of Axium International, Inc., which was a leading Hollywood payroll services company until its collapse in 2008, has been arrested on federal tax charges that allege he took millions of dollars of company funds and failed to report the income to the IRS. John Visconti, 71, of Beverly Hills,
Courtroom outbursts go with the territory in terms of testy exchanges between attorney and Judge, but when Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter was denied a motion to alter a trial date due to a conflicting Jewish holiday, he took to Facebook to call the Judge both a “racist” and an anti-Semite it didn’t go down
CHICAGO, ILL. (May 30, 2014) — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that John R Linzer has joined the firm’s Chicago office as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, Linzer was an attorney at Beem Patent Law Firm in Chicago. His practice focuses
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President Obama broke the law with his deal over Bowe Bergdahl’s release. That’s the clear sentiment – confidently expressed in multiple corners of the media over the Obama administration’s failure to notify Congress of the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees when making their deal for the exchange of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl. One such
The issue of fees and who is entitled to them is central to just about any law firm’s identity and life. But in the case of some of the largest-ever law firm failures – Coudert Brothers, Thelen LLP and Dewey & LeBoeuf, the issue has reached the highest court in New York. So who deserves
