From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Antitrust and the "Single Entity" Doctrine

July 24, 2006

It is axiomatic that an entity cannot “conspire” with itself. For example, the Supreme Court has held that a parent corporation and its subsidiary are not capable of an illegal conspiracy under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Of course, as is true with most legal principles, what looks simple at 30,000 feet altitude becomes more complicated

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Supernova 2006: Connecting in Complex World

July 21, 2006

I usually find the Knowledge@Wharton reports and articles interesting. Here is a series of articles summarizing some of the topics discussed at their annual Supernova Conference, which was held in San Francisco in late June. The topics include: What’s the Future of Desktop Software — and How Will It Affect Your Privacy? Kevin Lynch on

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The "Anonymous Lawyer" Industry

July 21, 2006

First the blog, then the web site, and finally the book. Jeremy Blachman has quite an operation! Law firms, and especially large law firms, are very strange places. Combine driven, intelligent (mostly), eccentric people, big egos, big money, competition for partnership among associates and for share of income among partners, clients pressures, competition between firms,

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Things Just Ain't Like They Used To Be

July 20, 2006

When a popular blogger/law firm associate gets fired by her firm, in this case mega-firm Reed Smith, she doesn’t just go gentle into that good night, as so many thousands of associates have done before her. Or silently, for that matter. Denise Howell, author of the popular Bag and Baggage blog (and coiner of the

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A New Twist on Forum Selection: The BLS

July 20, 2006

Business Litigation Session. The July 17, 2006 issue of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has an article suggesting that some attorneys are agreeing in contracts that claims arising from those contracts must be filed in the Suffolk County Business Litigation Session (BLS). The article reports that Judge Allan Van Gestel, the presiding judge of the session, recently

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Lawyers Gone Wild (rated PG 13)

July 12, 2006

I’ve debated with myself whether to post this video of Joe Jamail, the Texas lawyer who won a 10 billion dollar verdict in the infamous (in the 1980s) Penzoil v. Texaco case. Of course, my colleagues, trouble makers that they are, encouraged me to publish this. Click here to see the video, which I’ve had

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