Lawyer Mark Herrmann supervises about 150 employees in his role as vice president and chief compliance officer at Aon, but he rarely recognizes them—in the visual sense of the word. Herrmann suffers from prosopagnosia, the term for an inability to recognize faces.
A former Brooklyn judge testified last week on behalf of a man he convicted in a bench trial in 1999, saying he was swayed by his own liberal bias against a white defendant he saw as a bigot.
1988 was a peak year for associates in BigLaw. The percentage of associates in the nation’s top 250 law firms was at its highest point that year, comprising more than 60 percent of the lawyers, Indiana University law professor William Henderson has found.
Bankruptcy as an opportunity? And a "window" for it? What's that about? It's about the fact that our Congress gave all of us the opportunity for a Fresh Start from burdensome debts. And yes, for many people there is a "window" during which that...
The FDA has issued new guidance regarding antibiotic use on farms, but some skeptics suspect that the new recommendations are little more than a smokescreen.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) issued three judgments on grant of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) on 12 December 2013 in the cases: - C-493/12 Eli Lilly v HGS, - C- 443/12 Actavis v Sanofi, and - C-484/12 Georgetown...
When the President outlined his Climate Action Plan on June 25, he stressed the importance of federal leadership on emissions reduction efforts. A little over five months later, he signed a presidential memorandum directing the federal government to...
The recent decision in Silva v. Tegrity Personnel Svcs., Inc., Case No. 4:13-cv-00860 (S.D. Tex. 12/5/2013), suggests that some district courts haven’t fully embraced the Supreme Court’s holding in Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, 133 S. Ct....
The SEC has issued an order (the “Order”) approving an amendment (the “Amendment”) to FINRA Rule 5131 relating to New Issue Allocations and Distributions (the “Rule”). (The text of the Amendment is available in Exhibit 5 of FINRA’s filing with the...
It is often to a patentee plaintiff's strategic advantage to file suit in the district in which it resides, to obtain whatever "home court" advantage may attach to that venue. Myriad's choice of filing its post-Supreme Court opinion patent...
