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Appellate Law
Many Business Wins In Last Supreme Court Term
Editor: Tell us about your background and practice. Katsas: I’m a litigation partner in the Washington office of Jones Day. I handle mostly civil and appellate matters, including a lot of constitutional and administrative law issues and lately many products liability cases as well. I...
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Rolling Out The Affordable Care Act
Editor: Please describe your background as Health Care Counsel in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel where you had a key role in developing and advising on the Affordable Care Act. Livingston: I spent ten years as an executive in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, the last three of which were...
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Working Together With A Common Purpose
Editor: You have had a star-studded career, both as a lawyer and as a business leader. As a business leader in Pittsburgh, what projects have given you the greatest satisfaction? Ellsworth: One of the greatest things about the Pittsburgh region is the way in which the people of the...
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Standards-Essential Patents And Injunctive Relief
In a series of fast-moving and interrelated developments involving courts and competition authorities around the world, holders of patents deemed “essential” to industry standards are finding their ability to obtain injunctive relief for infringement of those patents under challenge...
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Amsterdam: Europe’s Gateway City Leads The Way Forward
Editor: Please tell us about your professional background. Houben: I completed my law studies in Belgium and then went to Columbia University, where I got a master’s degree and became acquainted with U.S. law. For the next 10 years or so, I was with another U.S. law firm in New York and...
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Is There Room In American Courts For An Australian Hot Tub?
An evidentiary practice, novel to U.S. courts, has been in operation in Australia for at least 20 years. “Concurrent expert evidence,” which is also colloquially referred to as “hot tubbing,” refers to a practice where competing experts are sworn and presented as witnesses...
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District Court Rules FCPA Jurisdiction Has Limits
Last fall, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission jointly issued their long-promised “Resource Guidance to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” (the “Guidance”). As we commented at the time, that Guidance, while useful,...
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