Private equity investments can raise complicated questions about attorney-client privilege, ranging from the interactions between a private equity firm and its portfolio companies, to communications with investors. It is important for in-house counsel...

Check out this discussion of invalidity defenses to design patent infringement based on 35 U.S.C. § 112 (indefiniteness and lack of enablement), functionality, incorrect inventorship, double patenting, inequitable conduct, and other equitable defenses...

FOMO (the fear of missing out) hits us in many ways, but perhaps no more acutely than when we hear about how other attorneys have found less expensive ways to conduct a document review. Make sure you’re living your best legal life with our checklist...

Despite the substantial discovery costs involved in any antitrust case that moves beyond pleadings, summary judgment or partial summary judgment can still help achieve an important result for your client—namely, the elimination or narrowing of issues...

United States v. Progressive, Inc. United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin March 26, 1979 No. 79-C-98 Opinion  [*991]  MEMORANDUM AND ORDER On March 9, 1979, this Court, at the request of the government, but after hearing from...

Storey v. Burns Int'l Sec. Servs. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit February 9, 2004, Argued ; December 9, 2004, Filed No: 03-2246 Opinion  [*761]  OPINION OF THE COURT McKEE, Circuit Judge . Curtis Blaine Storey, a former employee...

Safety Nat'l Cas. Corp. v. Certain Underwriters United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit November 9, 2009, Filed No. 06-30262 Opinion  [*717]  The basis for this interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) is the district court's...

NLRB v. E.D.P. Medical Computer Sys. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit June 9, 1993, Argued ; October 8, 1993, Decided Docket No. 93-6089 Opinion  [*952]  WOOD, JR., Circuit Judge : The National Labor Relations Board ("Board"...

Myers v. Comm'r United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit December 4, 2018, Argued; July 2, 2019, Decided No. 18-1003 Opinion  [*1027]   [**112]  Ginsburg , Senior Circuit Judge : The Internal Revenue Service denied David...

Miniard v. Lewis United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit December 19, 1967, Decided No. 20820 Opinion  [*864]  Appellant Miniard worked in the coal industry continuously from December 1926 until he retired in February 1959...