Source: China Law Blog Neither I nor my firm have ever represented a Chinese company within China. There are many reasons for that, chief among them that we are not licensed Chinese lawyers and it makes no sense to use American lawyers for domestic Chinese legal work. I mention this by way of explaining why [...]

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday invoked the Federalist Society’s chairman to refute conservative attacks on court decisions that reference foreign and international law. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Juice maker POM Wonderful on Friday afternoon withdrew its request for a restraining order against the National Law Journal, freeing the publication to disseminate word that POM is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Read the rest of the story…

Source: WSJ.com: Law Blog – WSJ.com Will the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office grant the application of an American chocolate maker to trademark a common Indian word? Read the rest of the story…

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Note: The related CLE, “The Price of Oil,” is Wed., Aug. 18. The legal repercussions from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are spreading quickly. But like so many other aspects of the catastrophe, it is hard to predict where the legal battles will lead—and impossible to [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories Putting an end to speculation about why a chief federal district judge was suddenly removed from an ongoing criminal trial in Chicago, the federal appeals court that axed him earlier this week explained today in a written opinion that it acted because of the jurist’s “unreasonable fury” against prosecutors. Responding [...]

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories A racketeering lawsuit seeking class action status and, potentially, up to billions of dollars in damages has been filed against a Florida lawyer and his foreclosure-mill law firm. Also named as a defendant is a bank-created company that, the complaint alleges, owned a criminal enterprise which operated to violate homeowners’ [...]

Source: Law.com – Newswire Baker & McKenzie has agreed to pay $6.65 million to compensate Coudert Brothers’ bankruptcy estate for profits Baker earned from unfinished business that partners took with them when they left the defunct Coudert. Baker will forfeit most of its interest in an estimated $17 million in contingency fees for litigation that [...]

Source: Law.com – Newswire Attorney Josh Markus will urge delegates at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco this week to officially encourage financial products and practices education and training for judges in the U.S. and abroad. The proposal is one of 35 resolutions up for debate, including a proposal that would urge state-level governments [...]

Source: Law.com – Newswire Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling their calendars with client meetings. Clients’ initial questions have largely focused on the so-called Volcker rule, which generally bans banking institutions [...]