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A Day Late and a Billion Dollars Short: Will the Medicines Co. Get to Keep its Patent?

A Day Late and a Billion Dollars Short: Will the Medicines Co. Get to Keep its Patent?

In 2001, the Medicines Company just missed the application deadline for a patent extension for its main product, Angiomax, a blood thinner. Because of this error, the patent on the…

Former Millberg Partners Out of Prison and Moving On

Former Millberg Partners Out of Prison and Moving On

They went from BigLaw to the Big House. Now the four former partners in Millberg Wiess Bershad Hynes & Lerach (now Millberg LLP) who pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to clients…

Troutman Sanders Opens Office in Portland

Troutman Sanders Opens Office in Portland

Troutman Sanders is opening a new office in Portland, Ore., the firm’s 16th. Partner Lara L. Skidmore will serve as the office’s first managing partner. The office will also house…

Goodwin Procter Adds Three to Silicon Valley Office

Goodwin Procter Adds Three to Silicon Valley Office

Goodwin Procter has added three lawyers to its technology companies and intellectual property practices in its Silicon Valley office. Slated to join the firm over the next few weeks are…

New York City Bar Revises Results of Study

New York City Bar Revises Results of Study

The New York City Bar has issued revised results of a study released earlier this month that said a “culture gap” had emerged between deferred associates and their colleagues at…

Persels & Associates Launches New Program for Debt Managment

Persels & Associates Launches New Program for Debt Managment

Persels & Associates, a national law firm with attorneys in all 50 states, announced a new program to help people manage their debt. The firm will negotiate with creditors to…

Cadwalader Nabs Four from Proskauer Rose

Cadwalader Nabs Four from Proskauer Rose

Cadwalader, Wichersham & Taft has bolstered its litigation department with the addition of four attorneys from Proskauer Rose LLP. Joining the firm are Louis M. Solomon, Hal S. Shaftel, Colin…

Chadbourne Tells Deferred Associates to Look Elsewhere

Chadbourne Tells Deferred Associates to Look Elsewhere

Chadbourne & Parke revealed yesterday that 11 of its 2009 first-year associates, which had been deferred to a 2010 start date, will not be offered jobs with the firm. In…

Revenue and Profits Increase at Cravath

Revenue and Profits Increase at Cravath

Despite the tough economic climate in 2009, Cravath, Swaine & Moore managed to increase its business, the AM Law Daily reports. Revenue at the firm rose to $569 million last…

Landmark Legal Foundation Will Sue if ‘Slaughter Rule’ Used to Enact President’s Health Care Plan

Landmark Legal Foundation Will Sue if ‘Slaughter Rule’ Used to Enact President’s Health Care Plan

Yesterday, Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia, said it will sue the President,…