Source: China Law Blog So I got an email from a client the other day, sending me a link to a blogpost, which in turn linked over to a “blacklist” (a word I hate and never use) of Chinese manufacturers. The client wanted to know what I thought of “such things.”  Never one to miss [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The Justice Department has won its bid to bar former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal from representing an electronics executive seeking to overturn his conviction in an important criminal price-fixing case. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today upheld the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — the one that requires states deemed to have historically suppressed minority votes to get approval from the Justice Department or a three-judge panel before changing voting procedures. [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The feds are burned out with a medical marijuana grower that it suspects isn’t quite taking its bankruptcy case seriously. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, said people familiar with the matter, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered institution. Read the rest of the story…

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories In the first day of a contempt hearing concerning evidence that wasn’t produced in a federal civil case that resulted in a $67 million judgment against Toronto-Dominion Bank, the institution’s new counsel, McGuireWoods, pointed the finger at its former counsel. Greenberg Traurig, the bank contended Thursday, had access to all [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Citing unidentified sources, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) is reporting that Dewey & LeBoeuf is working with a restructuring specialist and hopes to be ready to make a potential bankruptcy filing by the end of next week. However, an actual filing could come some time later or conceivably not [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories A Chinese immigrant jailed in Indiana for over a year on charges that she killed her viable fetus by eating rat poison in a suicide attempt while pregnant has lost her bid to have the controversial criminal case dismissed by the state supreme court. However, in letting stand a prior [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has relieved Justice Joan Orie Melvin of all judicial and administrative responsibilities, ordered her records secured and directed the court administrator to “ensure that the premises are vacated.” The action, announced in a press advisory, follows news today that Melvin has been charged with nine counts, [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Check out the seven funniest lawyer ads Martindale could find on YouTube. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com The company filed for an IPO with the SEC last week that could raise as much as $120 million. Read the rest of the story…

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Policies buried in college student handbooks are being cited by universities asserting that they are due a cut of the profits from inventions conceived on campus. Harvard wasn’t one of them, Stanford law fellow Brian Love writes in the Boston Globe. Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories The Other Big IPO Today, Facebook makes its historic market debut. But many lawyer-bloggers are talking about a different initial public offering: Last Friday, Web-based legal services provider LegalZoom filed for an IPO of up to $120 million to expand its services in the United States and around the world. [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Law Blog rounds up the morning’s news. Read the rest of the story…

Source: China Law Blog By: Rachel Buker I just returned from the INTA conference in Washington DC, a gathering of nearly 10,000 intellectual property professionals from around the world.  A number of speakers at the conference emphasized how using customs to seize counterfeit goods can be a very powerful tool for protecting brand-owners from counterfeit [...]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles Our Annual Employment Seminar has the topic of presentations on my mind this week. Like many of my employment-law colleagues, I do a lot of public speaking. I recently looked back at my speaking schedule for 2011 and was surprised to see that I averaged almost 1 speaking engagement per [...]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles While many people are aware that President Obama signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Act on February 22, 2012 extending the payroll tax cut, few knew about a provision in that law which helps employer avoid layoffs. This provision is called the Layoff Prevention Act of 2012. This [...]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles Examples of employers terminating employees for violating social media policies abound – as you can tell from our prior posts and the NLRB’s continuing interest in the topic. This week, however, Mr. Gene Morphis, chief financial officer for Francesca’s Holdings Corp., a Houston based fashion retailer, was “terminated for cause” [...]

Source: China Law Blog During my recent Los Angeles trip, I met with the person tasked with taking his company’s service business into China.  For about an hour we two talked of pretty much nothing but the difficulties he and his company would face.  Being the lawyer that I am, I am not sure I [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Everyone knows the meeting killers. There is “the dominator,” the Wall Street Journal notes in an interactive graphic. This person greatly overestimates the value of his or her personal views, disrupts discussion and “induces information overkill.” Then there is the “naysayer,” who waits to make major objections until after consensus [...]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles Executive Summary: The IRS recently issued revised guidelines for field agents who are conducting reviews of employers’ COBRA compliance. Read the rest of the story…

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles Executive Summary: A federal trial court in the District of Columbia has held that the “ambush election” procedures published by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in December 2011 are invalid. In response to the District Court’s decision, on May 15th the Board temporarily suspended implementation of the changes to [...]

Source: Federal Employment Law Articles The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has regulatory authority to request data beyond the date of a scheduling letter where the request is motivated by a “deficiency,” such as discriminatory adverse impact, discovered during a compliance review. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com iStock Otis Mobley Jr., a 23-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, faces charges that could put him away for a long time, including assault on a federal agent.Prosecutors say he orchestrated a bogus deal to sell a grenade launcher in the parking lot of a Chevy’s restaurant in [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Rajat Gupta’s lawyers want to show at his insider-trading trial next week that the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director is motivated by things other than money and introduce evidence of his charitable giving. Read the rest of the story…

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Perhaps 50 of the 300 partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf at the end of 2011 are still with the law firm right now. Associates and staff have been laid off. And a group of retired pension partners are pondering a possible effort to force the firm into involuntary bankruptcy. The [...]

Source: Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog Gov. Scott Walker has opened a lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett of six percentage points among likely voters in the June 5 recall election, according to results of the Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday. The Republican incumbent was the choice of 50% of those in the [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories After reviewing some 40 submissions, judges have selected three finalists for the 2012 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Now you can help them pick the winner by voting in the poll accompanying this post through July 8. Those up for the prize this year are: Michael Connelly, author of [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com UPDATE: Apparently a few employees are still roaming the halls at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s Manhattan offices. Make that 100, to be precise. On Wednesday the firm amended its WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) filing with the New York state Department of Labor to reflect the following:  there [...]

Source: China Law Blog ABC News is pushing (I received two different emails from ABC on it) a Diane Sawyer/ABC News clip entitled, “‘Made in America’ Products Selling in China.” Though it is the proverbial 3.28 minute puff piece, it is right on the big picture. There are huge opportunities to sell American product and [...]