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Leveraging Technology To Win At Trial
Editor: Have you always had an interest in technology, or are you a recent convert? Dutill: I was never a technology lover and have no special aptitude for computers. I studied Political Theory and English at Cornell in the early 1980's and had trouble operating an electric typewriter. I had no...
Read MoreArbitration - Law Firms Arbitration Clause Checklist For Intellectual Property Matters (Thirty Topics To Consider)
The Vanishing Trial Project commissioned by the American Bar Association Section of Litigation recently reported that 98.2% of federal civil cases fail to reach trial and that, despite an increase in civil filings, the actual number of civil trials has declined. The numbers are opposite for...
Read MoreMediating IP Disputes - Seven Keys To Success
Mediation is a process in which a neutral person (the mediator) helps parties to a dispute reach their own settlement. In contrast to a judge in litigation or an arbitrator in binding arbitration, the mediator neither seeks nor has any power to render a binding decision. Rather, the mediator works...
Read MoreMiddle Atlantic Focus - Law Firms Building An Investment Management And Government Relations Presence In Washington, DC
Editor: Mr. Stadulis, would you give our readers some idea of your background and career? Stadulis: I grew up in upstate New York in the Catskill Mountains. I attended Boston College for both my undergraduate and law degrees. After law school, I worked for four years at the SEC's Division of...
Read MoreThe Growth Of Business Method Patents
From what we hear and see in current news stories, it would appear that anything is patentable, no matter how strange, mundane, or plainly apparent. We have seen the many recent examples of "interesting" patents, such as U.S. Patent No. 5,443,036 disclosing a Method Of Exercising A Cat (which...
Read MoreDelaware - Law Firms Stradley Ronon Takes A Major Step Forward In Delaware
Editor: Ms. DeMatteis, please tell us something about your background. DeMatteis: I was born and raised in Delaware. Although I started my career as a journalist, I seem to have had a political dimension to my professional life from the very beginning. All through college I worked in the...
Read MoreMediation Of Closely Held Business Disputes
Mediation is increasingly being used to settle a variety of disputes. A large percentage of these mediations involve commercial disputes after a lawsuit has already been filed, in which the court orders the mediation or the parties elect to participate in mediation to try to resolve the dispute...
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