Ask and LookSmart Send Out Click Fraud Settlement Letters
Seems Lane’s Gifts are not the only ones getting money back from LookSmart and Ask for click fraud, letters were sent out yesterday for the class action suit that both companies are trying to put behind them. Both seem to be written by the same law firm and were from the suit lodged in the [...]
No DoubleClick Recusals At FTC
FTC chair Deborah Platt Majoras isn’t the only commissioner with a matrimonial connection at the Jones Day law firm, but neither she nor William Kovacic will recuse themselves from the Google/DoubleClick antitrust review.We have covered the bizarre saga of Jones Day and the request for recusal from two privacy advocacy organizations this week. Today’s episode [...]
Northeastern Sues Google Over Search Patent
Northeastern University has sued Google in the patent-friendly federal court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the search giant of infringing upon its work. The University has paired with a startup called Jarg, which is the exclusive licensee of technology patented in 1997, just before Google’s incorporation and subsequent rise in the world of [...]
Wal-Mart Warns Sites Not To Leak Black Friday Ads
Wal-Mart is threatening legal action against some Web sites that may release its Black Friday ads in advance. Wal-Mart lawyers have sent letters to the Web sites warning that publishing the ads before their official November 19 release date violates Wal-Mart’s copyrights. One such Web site that has received an email from the retailer is [...]
Major Law Firm Funds Social Network
When dealing with a powerful law firm and a social network for lawyers, you should watch your words very, very carefully. Or so I imagine, and I’m not going to attempt any other approach. So here’s the news in its least editorialized form: Orrick has invested in Legal OnRamp. Orrick, in case you couldn’t guess, [...]
YouTube Videos Reveal Anti-American Outsourcing
A law firm that thought it was demonstrating its cleverness in posting videos of its conference on business immigration instead showed how they cynically stack the deck against American job seekers for their clients. UC Davis professor Norm Matloff has long sounded the clarion call that the H-1B program and green cards have numerous loopholes [...]
What Does Stories Like Conduct In Question Have To Do With Joseph Campbell And The Hero With A Thousand Faces?
WHY WE LOVE STORIESTell me a story! Just one more story!Okay, here’s one for you about a forty-six year old lawyer.Harry’s stuck in the backroom of a creaky, old law firm and under his senior partner’s thumb. Life is going nowhere and his chances of making real money are fading fast. His wife pla… More: [...]
UK Hangs Search Engines Out To Dry
Search engine companies are out of luck, at least for the time being; the British government has announced that it will not support “a change to the UK E-commerce Regulations which would give greater legal protection to search engines and other intermediaries.” A European Commission review will decide the matter instead. The amendment would have [...]
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