Intellectual Property Law

Monthly flat fees for lengthy and expensive litigation; dubious as an alternative fee arrangement
A piece in Corp. Counsel, Vol. 15, May 2008 at 71, states that law firms should propose set payments every month as an ?alternative fee arrangement? for costly, multi-year cases. ?This benefits the law firm during the valley times and...

Co-Payments For Expensive Drugs Soar
Today's New York Times carries a story about the rising costs of prescription drugs ? even for people who have health insurance. The gist of it is that insurance carriers are raising the co-pay amount for the most expensive and...

Spitzer "Structured Payments" ARE NOT Structured Settlement Payments
Due to the vagaries of Internet search engines it is possible that those looking for information about structured settlement payments will come up with references to disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's payments to QAT Consulting Group, a company that...

A big win for war on drugs
Last week, the 2nd Circuit delivered a crushing blow on the war on drugs sanity and common sense. The Second held (for the first time, it is worth nothing) that sharing drugs is “illegal distribution” of drugs...

Applictions Up, Approvals Down
.... The number of workers applying for SSDI disability payments increased to 2.2 million in 2007, 2.6% more that in 2006, while the number of disabled workers approved for payments declined to 37...

New GAO Reports: Electronic Payments, Joint Forum on Tax Compliance, Medicaid Supplemental Payments, Nuclear Safety
Electronic Payments: Many Programs Electronically Disburse Federal Benefits, and More Outreach Could Increase Use, GAO-08-645, June 23, 2008 Highlights of...

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Linked to Eye Infection Fusarium Keratiti
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Recall
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships
NCAA Sued for Conspiracy and Anti-competitive Practices Related to Athletic Scholarships

ETHEX Corp
5 Generic Drugs Recalled Due to Risk of Death From Overdose

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

Water Contamination
Industry giants to pay $500,000 settlement in environmental lawsuit.

Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action
Payments Begin in Landmark $16 Million Medicaid Class Action

Sea Star Agrees $18.5M Settlement in Anti-trust Class Action
Sea Star Agrees $18.5M Settlement in Anti-trust Class Action