For those people who want or who must represent themselves at the first level of hearings, you need to read the Rules of Practice. These are the rules that the hearing officers expect attorneys and hearing advocates to know when they appear for a...
Waaaay back, I wrote a post on making the transition from being a cog in the wheel of commerce to being the engine of your own business. Since then, I’ve encountered more and more data on how terrifying, how thrilling it is to be an entrepreneur....
In 1995, public companies and their directors and officers received one of the greatest statutory gifts in the history of American corporate law: the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. The Reform Act established heightened standards for...
Two weeks ago, Toyota agreed to a record $1.2 billion settlement with U.S. regulators for the company’s alleged mishandling of its recall during its unintended acceleration crisis. Now it’s General Motors’ turn under the government’s harsh spotlight....
On March 26, the comment period ended for a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. proposed rule change to adopt an interpretation to clarify the classification of a hybrid security with both debt- and equity-like features for trade reporting...
On February 26, 2014, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp released draft (the "Discussion Draft”) that would substantially reform the current U.S. Tax Code (the “Code”). The Discussion Draft contains numerous provisions applicable to...
Arbitration is by no means a new option for resolving disputes. Yet, parties and their counsel may not be aware of everything that this method of alternative dispute resolution brings to the table. Here are five things you may not know about...
Amidst a recall of some 2.6 million compact vehicles to fix a faulty ignition switch and questions about why the recall didn't happen earlier, the CEO of General Motors told a congressional panel Tuesday that the automaker has hired attorney Kenneth Feinberg to help evaluate possible options for
As a follow-up to our earlier post (Can BlackBerry Patent a Keyboard?), a US court on Friday issued a preliminary injunction in a dispute between the BlackBerry maker and start-up Typo Products LLC which sells a snap-on keyboard for the iPhone....
There's a new job opening at the Supreme Court: Job Description: Complete test of patent eligiblity sketched out by this Court’s decisions in Bilski v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus. Self starter required: must be able to distinguish business...
