OverFlow Legal

http://www.law.com ― To open its Victor diamond mine in northern Ontario, De Beers Canada had to conduct negotiations with the Attawapiskat First Nation. More Canadian bu read more…

http://www.law.com ― The generation that lived through the Great Depression might now have an advantage when it comes to managing a budget for a corporate law department read more…

http://www.law.com ― Bad economic times create opportunities for strong companies to poach good employees from a weakened competitor. Attorney David Walton offers steps t read more…

http://www.law.com ― Consultant Rees W. Morrison reviews five hot-button issues in outside counsel guidelines: charges related to travel time, conflicts of interest, chan read more…

http://www.law.com ― Sometime in the next decade, an economic historian will write the definitive account of the 2008 credit crisis. The extent to which there was a regul read more…

http://www.law.com ― Antitrust attorneys expect the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to ramp up merger scrutiny in President-elect Barack Obama read more…

http://www.law.com ― The $565 million merger struck between Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Marketplace in mid-2007 is becoming one of those legal battles that's so prot read more…

http://www.law.com ― Jury research is a staple of trial preparation, yet most corporate counsel are not getting good value on their investment because they delay such res read more…

http://www.law.com ― Three years ago, when Alcoa was looking for a law firm to handle its IP work exclusively and at a fixed fee, Greenberg Traurig beat out nearly three read more…

http://www.law.com ― Citigroup's board is apparently fighting over which Am Law 100 firm it should retain as counsel. With Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & C read more…

http://www.law.com ― The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a recent case of first
impression, considered whether a securities fraud complaint brought by
for read more…

http://www.law.com ― The recently issued SEC enforcement manual, which addresses a variety of subjects ranging from waiver of the attorney client privilege to the best pr read more…

http://www.law.com ― The success of law firms depends on a variety of factors, including differences in management, operations and the wide range of characteristics they read more…

http://www.law.com ― Laura Peter joined Immersion in 2005 in the midst of a heated patent fight that ended with Sony agreeing to pay a $97 million judgment and $53 millio read more…

http://www.law.com ― Facebook has hired a GOP insider as its new GC, surprising scores of Silicon Valley lawyers who'd been vying for the hottest in-house gig in town. Th read more…