Legal Research

Older = Wiser
Science (at the mention of which all readers will please bow their heads in a moment of silence) has now confirmed that older people tend to be wiser. In other news, people tend to fear death.

Wife Who Allegedly Took Husbands Winning Lottery Ticket is Facing Civil Suit and Criminal Charges as well as Divorce
Older Canadian couple married ten years. Husband is two decades older than Wife. Husband buys lottery ticket. Winning ticket will pay out $3.5 million Canadian. Husband alleges Wife stole his winning ticket, gave it to her daughter and received a substantial gift from her daughter from the winnings...

Int'l Patent Litigation - Winning Strategies
Farella Braun + Martel is co-sponsoring a two-day seminar in Taiwan on International Patent Litigation--Winning Strategies and Approaches. This seminar, organized by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Academy, will cover issues relating to international and Taiwanese patent regimes...

New GAO Reports: Older Workers, Climate Change Science, Federal Land Management, TARP
Older Workers: Enhanced Communication among Federal Agencies Could Improve Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Experienced Workers, GAO-09-206, February 24, 2009...

Tenderhearted
This has been a week of revelations about the true nature of many people. Maybe it’s part of growing older and getting wiser. Maybe it’s part of getting hurt one too many times...

Older, wiser, and after 4,500 posts, time to rethink my 12 substantive categories
With 4,500 posts under my belt, I looked back over the distribution of posts by the dozen substantive categories I use. Outside Counsel Mgt. (976) Talent Mgt. (602) Mgt. Tools and Initiatives (566) Productivity (428) Controlling Legal Costs (428) Metrics...

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...