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Patent Office Announces Agenda and Participants for Deferred Examination Roundtable
By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, in a notice published in the Federal Register, the U...

USPTO News: USPTO Schedules Roundtable Discussion on Deferred Examination
By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Federal Register pre-publication Notice scheduled to be published officially in tomorrow's Federal Register, the U...

Which Come First, Schedules or Exhibits?
When you assemble the components of a contract that refers to schedules and exhibits, which should come first after the main part of the contract? The schedules or the exhibits? Thanks to a reader inquiry, I’ve now considered that gripping question for the first time...

Fair Use Roundtable Discussion
The Library of Congress Section 108 Study Group will hold a roundtable discussion in Chicago on January 31, 2007...

Reminder: Recorder Roundtable on Tobacco Wednesday in San Francisco
Please register to attend the Recorder Roundtable, "Proposition 64: Are the Standards Changing?" scheduled for Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at 9:00 a...

Roundtable Seminar - Reforming the Constitution
This week on Thursday 1 May I'll be participating in a Roundtable Seminar on Reforming the Constitution at Parliament House in Canberra...

moot court roundtable
On Tuesday, July 15, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., a lunchtime roundtable about moot court-related issues will be held at the LWI Conference...

SEC on the "Performance" of Standards
Is it useful to ask which performs better, the metric system or the imperial system of measurement? Are meters better than miles? Does one system offer more refined tools to achieve precise results? How useful is it to ask, which performs better, German or Russian? Must it depend on purpose, such as for philosophy or literature? The SEC proposes to ask a version of such comparative performance questions about international accounting versus US accounting at a hastily-called roundtable next Monday...

Roundtable Seminar - Reforming the Constitution
Today I'm participating in a Roundtable Seminar on Reforming the Constitution at Parliament House in Canberra...

"Roundtable Report on Best Practices, Part 1 of 2"
Posted by Jim Hassett: “A few months ago, I wrote about the first meeting of the Boston Roundtable on Legal...

Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

Can a landlord break a lease to sell the property?
Your lease will contain a clause that it is "binding on all successors and ...

Can a fifty-fifty notarized doc give a father the right to claim a child on his taxes that does not live with him?
i believe you have custodial custody of you daughter (meaning she lives with you...

When selling an inherited home, how to make sure that the beneficiaries are taxed on the stepped up basis?
The cost basis at which the beneficiaries receive the property is the current fa...

What are the substantive and procedural standards for establishing paternity for a deceased individual (namely the father)?
A viability test is a preliminary test performed on an unusual DNA sample. Its p...

UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action
UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action

Northwestern Mutual
Faces $200 Million Fair Labor Class Action

Disability Access
Developers pay $175,000 settlement for failing to comply with the Fair Housing Act.