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By Legal Week | March 17, 2010
The decision of the Court of Justice of the EU in the AM&S case in 1980 is arguably one of the most controversial EU competition law decisions the court has ever made. The court limited the benefit of legal professional privilege in EU competition investigations to communications between firms and external, EU-qualified, lawyers, giving the European Commission the power to order disclosure of communications between firms under investigation and their in-house and non-EU qualified lawyers.
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By Suzi Ring | March 12, 2010
US firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has recruited a Mayer Brown antitrust partner in Brussels. Andres Font Galarza, who started at Gibson Dunn today (12 March), is also a former senior official of the European Commission's directorate general for competition, a role he held for 13 years until he joined Mayer Brown's Brussels antitrust and competition practice in 2008.
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By Suzi Ring | February 15, 2010
White and Case has lost another partner with the departure of antitrust specialist Elaine Johnston to Allen & Overy's (A&O's) New York office. Johnston, who has worked at White and Case since 1993, also held the role of diversity executive partner at the US firm.
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By Emma Sadowski | February 3, 2010
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has bolstered its City EU & competition practice with the hire of BP competition lawyer Andrew Hockley. Hockley, who will take BLP's competition partner headcount to four across the London and Brussels offices, has served as EC competition counsel at BP for the last three years.
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By Jeremy Hodges | January 21, 2010
McDermott Will & Emery is to be left without a single competition partner in London as longstanding partner Scott Megregian leaves for K&L Gates and Alasdair Bell joins football governing body UEFA as general counsel. The pair's departures follow that of fellow competition partner Davina Garrod, who joined Bingham McCutchen earlier this week.
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By Legal Week | January 8, 2010
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recruited SJ Berwin lawyer Sheldon Mills as its new director of mergers. Mills, who will take up his new role on 15 February, joined SJ Berwin's EU and competition practice in January 2007 from the London office of US firm Jones Day.
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By Legal Week | December 18, 2009
Herbert Smith competition partner Jonathan Scott has been named as the firm's new senior partner after a contested election process. Scott was announced as the successful candidate today (18 December) - receiving over 50% of the votes - after standing against Moscow managing partner Allen Hanen. Disputes partner Tim Parkes stepped out of the race earlier this week after receiving the fewest votes from the partnership in the first round of elections.
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By Legal Week | December 4, 2009
Bird & Bird has bolstered its EU and competition practice with the hire of Anne Federle from Linklaters. Federle is set to join Bird & Bird next month as a partner in the UK top 20 firm's Brussels office.
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By Legal Week | October 28, 2009
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is continuing its push in the City, launching its second new practice area in London in under six months. The Boston-based law firm is entering the European competition market with the hire of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) competition partner Becket McGrath.
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By Legal Week | September 28, 2009
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has appointed a new managing partner, with competition partner Martijn Snoep set to replace Mark Biesheuvel at the helm of the Dutch firm. The appointment, made last week (24 September), will take effect from the beginning of 2010, when Snoep will start a four-year term. Biesheuvel, who has served one term in the post which he took up in 2006, will return to full-time fee earning in the litigation practice.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 12, 2022
The settlement is part of multidistrict litigation that includes a separate class action brought on behalf of consumers in 17 states, including Georgia, 39 AGs and Epic Games, but they are not part of the settlement agreement.
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By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | July 11, 2022
Following the withdrawal, major sectors of the economy are left without any formal guidance on how the DOJ, the USPTO, and the NIST will treat issues concerning industry essential patents in the coming months. It appears as though uncertainty surrounding the future of Standard Essential Patent enforcement will continue in the Biden administration.
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By Aleeza Furman | July 8, 2022
The decision centered on the appropriate meaning to apply to the word "exemplification," a term that U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said has yet to be clearly defined.
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By Amanda Bronstad | July 8, 2022
The class action settlement, which is up for court approval on Aug. 4, contained many of the same provisions within a similar $100 million class action agreement with Apple, approved last month.
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By Philip Giordano and Paul Washington | July 6, 2022
The administration's antitrust policy shift comes at a particularly challenging time for companies facing supply chain disruptions. CLOs can play a leading role in helping their boards and management teams incorporate consideration of ESG factors and stakeholder perspectives into their business strategy.
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By Andrew Goudsward | June 30, 2022
E. Martin Estrada was nominated earlier this month to serve as U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
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By Andrew Goudsward | June 22, 2022
A Justice Department official offered insight into the Justice Department's evaluation of corporate compliance programs during a panel discussion with white-collar defense lawyers.
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By James Carstensen | June 20, 2022
Quinn Emanuel advised US chipmaker Qualcomm on the victory that annulled a near-billion euro fine for the company's payments to Apple.
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By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz | June 16, 2022
At least three rules—commission sharing, "clear cooperation policies" and Internet data exchange rules—are being challenged in federal courts today because they allegedly distort home prices and deprive home buyers and sellers of non-MLS alternatives.
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By ALM Staff | June 14, 2022
This lawsuit was surfaced on Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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