Legal Management
Are lawmakers smoking out tobacco brands?
Australia faces some imposing legal hurdles in its attempt to ban tobacco trademarks. However, as Matt Packer writes, this has not stopped other countries from thinking about extinguishing them...  »
New trends in ESI: has network pride led to privacy’s fall?
Recent innovations in the networking field have raised public expectations of online privacy. Matt Packer asks whether these hopes are realistic...  »
US think tank in deregulation plea to lower legal services costs
Major non-profit policy research outlet the Brookings Institution argues that US accreditation and ownership rules are keeping prices of legal services high and competition low...  »
Google acquires protective patent shield in Motorola buyout
Purchase of US mobile-phone company provides Google with ready-made defence against patent suits...  »
Major legal services charity killed by cuts
Law For All becomes high-profile casualty of slashed legal aid funding...  »
Law Society chief speaks out for liberalisation at US Bar conference
Head of leading professional association for solicitors in England and Wales spreads reform message to US ethics panel...  »
Keeping secrets: recipes for confidentiality
Rumours in February that Coca-Cola’s secret recipe was revealed have been dismissed by the beverage company as a hoax, but the theft of trade secrets is no laughing matter, says Nicholas Bolter of E....  »
Ugly discovery blights Facebook rights fight
Squabble over documents, data and hardware puts added pressure on bitter ownership battle...  »
State attorney general attacks law firm’s liberalisation drive
Jacoby & Meyers’s attempt to quash New York State rule against non-lawyer collaboration takes flak from top legal official...  »
SRA puts solicitors in spotlight over phone hacking
Following copious media coverage of illegal phone hacking, the approved ABS regulator steps in to probe solicitors’ actions in the saga...  »