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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

How Facebook's Lawyers Price Their Services [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 3/7/2013

March 7 (Bloomberg Law) -- Silicon Valley's Fenwick & West -- which incorporated Apple and took Facebook public -- recently hired a new kind of staff position: a product manager charged with helping clients understand the...more

Cybersecurity: The Next Big Wave in Securities Litigation?

by King & Spalding on 2/24/2013

News broke this week about significant cybersecurity breaches at many U.S. corporations that raises the possibility of a new wave of SEC enforcement actions, class actions, and derivative lawsuits. A front page New York Times...more

Maintaining Our Focus - Winter 2013

by David Rosenblatt, Mark Schonfeld, Matthew Tuttle | Burns & Levinson LLP on 2/15/2013

In This Issue: - Message from the Managing Partner - Amazing Clients®: ACell: Medical Miracles - The Age of Bionic Reconstruction Arrives - Rethinking Today’s “Fixed Income” Investments - Can Gray...more

Microsoft Court Holds Right to Replicate Software Is an Intangible Property Right for Purposes of California’s Sales Factor...

by Marty Dakessian, Mike Shaikh, Kyle O. Sollie, Brian W. Toman | Reed Smith on 12/28/2012

Earlier this week, the California Court of Appeal, First District, held that the right to replicate and install software is an intangible property right for sales-factor sourcing purposes. Thus, for the years at issue, the...more