NEW YORK (June 3, 2010) – ALM’s Real Estate Media Group, publisher of Real Estate Forum and producer of the RealShare Conference Series, today announced the launch of its completely redesigned GlobeSt.com website, with expanded content and resources for commercial real estate professionals. GlobeSt.com, the industry’s leading portal, features a wide array of news, trends, analysis, details on high-profile deals and career resources. All digital content and tools are available free with registration. To tour the site’s new enhancements and to register, go to http://www.globest.com/.

The new website includes the following:
• A handheld/mobile version, with auto recognition of smartphone and PDA mobile users.
• Expanded coverage, including enhanced reporting on distressed assets, student housing and medical office space.
• New opt-in e-mail AM Alerts for the Texas, Washington, D.C. and international markets, bringing the total number of geographic alerts to 10.
• A news hub, with links to major industry business stories from publications around the country.
• A “PropertyALERT” section allowing viewers to locate lease, sale and auction information.  PropertyALERT also provides owners and brokers with a dynamic platform to market assets.
• Expanded video coverage of local and national events, interviews with industry leaders and a weekly national news wrap-up via GlobeSt.TV.

“GlobeSt.com fundamentally changed the way commercial real estate professionals received information,” said Michael Desiato, vice president–Real Estate Media Group for ALM.  “Based on that decade-long reputation, we now have an average of 130,000 unique visitors per month and we’re confident that our viewership will continue to grow. The changes we have implemented reflect our ongoing commitment to provide our readers with access to the specific information they want, delivering even more value for readers, users and advertisers.”
GlobeSt.com’s new digital platform makes it easier for visitors to locate and access stories, and view related industry statistics, video, events and Webinars.  Content sections and story pages have been reconfigured to facilitate search and navigation by geographic market and property type, as well as by general content. User interactivity is also a critical part of the new design, allowing users to comment on stories and post links to their blogs, videos and webinars.

For advertisers, home-page graphic ads can now be combined with text ads on relevant stories, and new advertising units and adjacencies are now available on e-mail alerts, mobile pages and directories.  For more information, please contact Donald O’Keefe at (212) 457-9695 or dokeefe@alm.com.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (June 3, 2010) – A panel including Hon. David J. Waxse, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas will discuss the progress of the 7th Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program on June 23 at ALM’s upcoming LegalTech West Coast 2010. The Pilot Program was formed in May 2009 to reduce the burden and cost of electronic discovery in litigation pending in the federal district courts of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. LegalTech West Coast 2010, the region’s largest and most prestigious legal technology conference and trade show, will take place June 23-24 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Complete conference information is available at www.legaltechshow.com.

The session will feature a presentation from members of the Pilot Program committee on findings  from Phase One of the project and objectives for Phase Two. The panel will discuss the results of a just-completed survey and emerging electronic discovery issues likely to be addressed in Phase Two, including search, the impact of emerging technologies and other changing aspects of the electronic discovery landscape.

In addition to Judge Waxse, speakers will include Steven W. Teppler, partner, Edelson McGuire LLC and co-chair, Communications and Outreach Subcommittee, Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Committee and Thomas A. Lidbury, partner, Mayer Brown.  Scott A. Carlson, chair, National eDiscovery Practice Group, Seyfarth Shaw LLP will moderate the session.

“Obviously, it’s important to contain cost and make electronic discovery manageable,” said Teppler. “But another important committee objective is to provide a uniform, sustainable, manageable, and scalable ESI discovery framework that can be used by any court system from any jurisdiction in the United States.”

This session is eligible for up to 1.5 CLE credits and will take place in the exhibit hall on June 23 from 12:15 – 1:30 PM.

LegalTech West Coast 2009 attracted 3000 attendees and featured more than 100 exhibiting companies.   For a conference agenda, exhibitor list and other details, visit www.legaltechshow.com.
LegalTech is presented by ALM Events, a leading producer of educational and networking events for business leaders and professionals. Other ALM events include ALM Legal Conferences, Insight Information Conferences and the RealShare Conference series for commercial real estate professionals.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (June 2, 2010) – The National Law Journal, an ALM publication, today announced the launch of a new, e-newsletter, “Supreme Court Insider,” featuring reporting and analysis from Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle, two of the most veteran Supreme Court reporters in America. The weekly e-newsletter is one of the only independent publications focused on The Supreme Court, unaffiliated with any law firm, law school, or partisan or advocacy organization. To register for a free trial subscription and view the first issue, go to www.nlj.com/scinsider/reg.

“Supreme Court Insider” focuses on the practitioners at the Court, as well as the justices, the players inside the institution (including clerks and permanent staff) and the solicitor general’s office.  In addition to exclusive analysis from Mauro and Coyle, the e-newsletter will offer weekly features including Brief of the Week (the most interesting filing at the Supreme Court for the week); Appellate Lawyer of the Week (a weekly interview with a top Supreme Court practitioner); and SCOTUS Scorecard (data on the current term, including win-loss stats for Supreme Court litigators who argued at the Court during the current term).

“The Supreme Court remains a mystery for many people, even experienced practitioners, and this publication is designed to help attorneys, academics, and others develop a greater understanding of what goes on inside the Marble Palace,” said David Brown, editor in chief of The National Law Journal. “We’ll provide a steady stream of news, analysis, and data — exclusive to this publication — that isn’t beholden to any outside interest, and that can serve as a tool for our readers in their practices.”

Mauro has covered the Supreme Court for 30 years, first for Gannett News Service and USA TODAY and then, since January 2000, for The National Law Journal/Legal Times.  Since 1986, Mauro’s Courtside column has focused on large and small developments inside the Court, involving its justices, its law clerks and other employees, its traditions, practices, and history.

Mauro received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Rutgers University, and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  He is the author of “Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court” and has written law review articles and contributed chapters to several books, including “A Good Quarrel: America’s Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court.”  A winner of numerous awards for his Supreme Court coverage, Mauro is chairman of the executive committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and is a member of the advisory board of the World Press Freedom Committee and of The Media Institute. He is also on the advisory board for Georgetown University Law Center’s Master of Studies in Law program for journalists.

Coyle, who appears on a regular basis as a legal and Supreme Court analyst for the PBS NewsHour, joined the NLJ and began covering the Supreme Court in 1987.  Previously, she had covered state and national politics and government for the Allentown Call-Chronicle newspapers for nearly a decade. Coyle earned her bachelor’s degree from Hood College, a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. She is a contributing author to “A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court” (Duke University Press) and has had articles published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Vogue, and Ms. magazines, among others. Her work has earned her the George Polk Award for legal reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for outstanding investigative reporting, the Scripps Howard Neiman Award for environmental reporting and other national journalism awards.

Founded in 1978, The National Law Journal has the largest paid circulation of any weekly publication serving the legal community. The NLJ is published by ALM.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (June 1, 2010) – The June Am Law 200 issue of The American Lawyer reveals that the nation’s Second Hundred top-grossing law firms — which had outperformed the Am Law 100 on virtually every financial dimension in 2008 — stumbled in two key areas last year. Average profits per partner for the Second Hundred fell 0.3 percent, to $646,926, while The Am Law 100’s rose 0.3 percent. And, Second Hundred revenue per lawyer dropped 2 percent, to $575,855, a slightly worse showing than The Am Law 100’s 1.9 percent fall. The 2010 Am Law 200 rankings, based on FY 2009 financial performance data, are featured in the June issue of the magazine, available beginning today. Selected Am Law 200 survey results are also available at www.americanlawyer.com.

Widespread cost reductions have taken place across the entire Am Law 200, and both groups now have nearly identical profit margins—37 percent at The Am Law 100 and 36 percent at the Second Hundred.  In 2009, however, it appears that the two groups started to diverge in the area of head count. Total head count grew 1 percent at the Second Hundred, while it fell 1 percent at The Am Law 100. The Second Hundred increased its equity partner ranks by 1.9 percent, while The Am Law 100 cut its by 0.7 percent.

“The bottom line: last year there was nowhere to hide,” said editor in chief Aric Press. “On average, Second Hundred firms, as a group, were just as vulnerable to the economic downturn as Am Law 100 firms were.”

There was some good news for the Second Hundred.  The Second Hundred’s fall in total gross revenue was smaller than The Am Law 100’s—1 percent, to $17.1 billion from $17.3 billion, compared to a 3.4 percent drop at The Am Law 100.  (The Am Law 100 accounts for 79 percent of the Am Law 200’s total gross revenue.)
And, there were even a few bright spots of actual growth. Fifty-five Second Hundred firms had year-over-year increases in profits per partner, and 44 had increases in revenue per lawyer. Second Hundred firms in the upper Midwest’s manufacturing belt performed well, especially firms based in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

The American Lawyer’s Am Law 100/200 has been recognized as the definitive public ranking of annual financial performance for the nation’s largest law firms since its introduction in 1987.  Am Law 100/200 metrics are primary benchmarks for law firms seeking to assess their competitive position in the marketplace.  Am Law 100/200 spreadsheet data is available for online purchase at www.almlegalintelligence.com.

Follow The American Lawyer on Twitter at http://twitter.com/AmLawDaily. To subscribe or request back copies of The American Lawyer, please call (800) 755-2773 or (212) 545-5990 outside the U.S.  A digital edition of the magazine can also be purchased online.  The American Lawyer is published in print and online by ALM.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit http://www.alm.com/.

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SAN FRANCISCO (June 1, 2010) – The Recorder, California’s leading provider of legal news, information and analysis, today announced plans to expand digital delivery while shifting to a weekly newspaper publishing schedule. The Recorder will introduce a completely redesigned website and newspaper on June 7. The former Cal Law website, now therecorder.com, will feature enhanced online news coverage and updates throughout the day. Newspaper subscribers will now receive full premium access to all online content at no additional charge.

Website enhancements for therecorder.com include expanded California law headlines, integration of the Legal Pad blog, Twitter feeds, improved access to specific coverage areas and new opportunities for advertisers to target specific content. Registered users will now have the ability to comment on stories.

The Recorder weekly newspaper will publish on Mondays and offer in-depth legal news and analysis, expanded “In Practice” substantive law content, weekly judicial profiles, in-house profiles and case summaries.  Print subscribers who are not already registered for website access can do so at www.therecorder.com/register_online or call (415) 490-1056.

Subscribers will continue to receive the popular morning news and the afternoon case e-mail alerts each weekday. The market-leading California Daily Opinion Service will continue to be published on the website, where users can download daily CDOS booklets. Judicial profiles will be published weekly, doubling the number available to readers. 

“The majority of our subscribers now prefer to access The Recorder’s content digitally, and we believe that this percentage will continue to increase in the future,” said Brian Hunt, publisher of The Recorder.  “The shift to a weekly print publishing schedule will enable us to better serve our digital customers, while continuing to deliver a quality, must-read print publication.” 
“The Recorder’s online news will now be updated throughout the day, with breaking news posted online first, instead of waiting to coincide with print publication,” said Scott Graham, editor in chief.  “Our award-winning editorial team will be posting more stories online as events happen. Those stories will focus first on news reporting, with subsequent stories – and the print edition – focused on adding background, context and analysis.”

An FAQ document covering many issues related to these changes is available at http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/marketingLanding.jsp?p=faq.  For additional information on subscriptions, group discounts and digital site licenses, please call (415) 490-1056 or e-mail Hunt at bhunt@alm.com.

The Recorder is a leading provider of essential California legal content. Its print and online platforms build on more than a century of excellence in legal journalism, serving one of the largest legal communities in the world with the most accurate and most talked about legal news and information.  The Recorder is published by ALM.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (May 20, 2010) – Corporate Counsel will present its 22nd Annual General Counsel Conference June 8-9 at The New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. The conference keynote, “Aftershocks from the Financial Earthquake: Surprises, Challenges and Life After the Financial Crisis,” will be delivered by Alan J. Kreczko, executive vice president and general counsel, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. In 2009, Corporate Counsel named The Hartford’s law department as the winner of its annual Best Legal Department competition. The complete conference agenda and registration details are available at www.corpcounsel.com/gceast.

The conference will feature two special luncheon sessions: “IP Litigation and the Entertainment Industry in the New Economy” and “2010 Proxy Season and Executive Pay Update - Lessons Learned in 2010 and Getting Ready for 2011.”

In addition to Kreczko, conference speakers and panelists will include:
•    Randall Burrows, vice president & general manager, Xerox Litigation Services
•    Anne Chwat, general counsel and corporate secretary, Burger King Corporation
•    Lawrence A. Jacobs, senior executive vice president, group general counsel, News Corporation
•    Elizabeth Finn Johnson, senior counsel, litigation & employment, The Coca-Cola Company
•    Bradley E. Lerman, senior vice president & associate general counsel, litigation, Pfizer Inc.
•    Thomas Sabatino, senior vice president, general counsel & corporate secretary, United Airlines, Inc.
•    Jonathan Wasserman, vice president & assistant general counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Other session topics to be covered at this year’s event include:
•    “Bet the Company Litigation in the New Economy”
•    “Managing Congressional Investigations”
•     “Internal Investigations”
•    “Social Networking and Its Impact on Employees and Employment Law”
•    “Leveraging Political Contributions post Citizens United”
•    “Reducing Cost from Electronic Discovery”
•    “Legal Project Management”
•    “Industrial Espionage”
•    “Ireland as a Location for BidCo Vehicles”

Kreczko has overseen the company’s law department and government affairs group since 2007.  Prior to joining The Hartford in 2003, he held various senior positions within the United States Government. Until 2002, he was the acting assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, where he led the State Department’s response to humanitarian crises in conflict situations, including Afghanistan, Timor, Sudan and West Africa. Prior to that, he had served as legal advisor to President Clinton’s National Security Council. He has also served as deputy general counsel to the Department of State and as legal advisor to the President of the United States’ personal representatives for Middle East negotiations.  Kreczko earned his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Boston College.

This program is approved for 15 New York/New Jersey CLE Credits, including two ethics credits and 12.5 California/Illinois CLE Credits, also including two ethics credits.

For additional conference information, or to register, please contact customer service at (212) 457-7905, contact Brad Blickstein at 847-256-5298 or brad@blicksteingroup.com or visit www.corpcounsel/gceast.

The conference is presented by Corporate Counsel, in conjunction with ALM Events, a leading producer of educational and networking events for legal and business professionals.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (May 19, 2010) – ALM, a leading provider of business news and information for the legal and commercial real estate sectors, today announced that Charles Siegel has joined the company’s board of directors as non-executive chair.  In this new position, Siegel will serve as an advisor to ALM’s CEO and senior management on strategic and long-term planning issues.

Siegel formerly served as president of the Academic & Professional Group for Cengage Learning and led the company’s transformation to digital educational information services platforms. Previously, he was senior vice president of operations services for Thomson Learning.  Prior to this, he held several executive positions at Primedia, Inc., including COO of the consumer magazine group, CEO of Newbridge Communications and executive vice president of operations for the education group.  Siegel began his career at Prentice Hall and worked at Simon & Schuster and Macmillan Publishing. He held operating roles as CEO of Brady Communications, president of the Simon & Schuster technical reference group and president of the Maxwell Macmillan international group.  Siegel holds a bachelor’s degree from Pace University and studied at the Baruch School of CUNY.

Other ALM directors are William Pollak, CEO and Eric Lundberg, CFO of ALM; Stephen Grabiner, partner and Marcelo Gigliani, partner, of Apax Partners; and Roger Meltzer, partner, DLA Piper.ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (May 19, 2010) – –ALM’s Corporate Counsel today announced the selection of the in-house attorneys of Microsoft Corporation as winners of the magazine’s fifth annual “Best Legal Department” competition.  Corporate Counsel‘s editors also named the legal departments of Discover Financial Services, Hewlett-Packard Company, and The Williams Companies as finalists.  Profiles of the winner and finalists, including online video interviews, will be featured in the June issue of Corporate Counsel, out today, and on the magazine’s website at www.corpcounsel.com.

The in-house legal department at Microsoft was selected for achievements including the settlement of the company’s longest and most expensive antitrust legal battle, a fight with the European Union over opening its Windows operating system to rivals’ browsers.  Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith and his legal team spent months last year hammering out the details of the 61-page settlement, including 24 videoconferences and 34 conference calls with lawyers representing EU regulators.  The settlement was a major win for a legal team which has set out to prove that it can resolve disputes amicably, despite Microsoft’s reputation for aggressively fighting legal disputes to their bitter end.

In addition to its settlement and litigation successes, the 459-lawyer group was cited for its steps to increase efficiency in the face of budget cuts, and for its diversity and pro bono efforts, including helping laid-off workers get free computer training and representing immigrant children in court.

“As always, the competition among the finalists was extremely tight, but Microsoft’s use of a conciliatory approach to bring resolution to a landmark case that had dragged on for years stood out,” said Anthony Paonita, editor in chief of the magazine.  “Equally important to our decision was the quality of their litigation and IP work, as well as their efforts to bring real diversity to their department.”

The magazine’s editors cited Discover Financial Service’s legal department – one of the smallest to ever enter the competition with just 34 members - for its creative problem solving and innovative use of staff.  For example, its tiny litigation team (just one full-time attorney and two part-time lawyers) handled over 1,000 legal matters in 2009, while resolving 11 of 14 pending class action suits. Working with
outside counsel, the team collected $2.75 billion last year from an antitrust suit it won in 2008 against Visa Inc. and MasterCard Incorporated. It was the third-largest antitrust victory in history.

The more than 400 lawyers in HP’s global legal team were recognized for work that included a complete overhaul of HP’s compliance system. That involved identifying close to 50,000 employees who dealt with the public sector side of HP’s business in 12 different countries, and making sure they had the right training to observe local corruption and bribery laws.  Under the leadership of general counsel Michael Holston, the group has helped the company recover from boardroom scandals that prompted the departure of the company’s CEO and previous general counsel and instituted a formal pro bono program, which is set to expand to encompass the company’s large staff of international lawyers.

At The Williams Companies, the legal department’s ability to analyze data and make projections helped it craft innovative fee agreements with its main law firms. Those deals have enabled Williams to cut its outside legal expenses by about 15 percent.  Led by general counsel Jim Bender, the 39 attorneys for the natural gas company were also recognized for implementing a new compliance program, including companywide training on compliance guidelines and procedures, and for developing a comprehensive approach to discovery that has saved the company millions of dollars.

Winners were selected from responses submitted to a detailed questionnaire developed by the editors and reporters of Corporate Counsel and distributed to the general counsel of all Fortune 500 corporations. The magazine’s editors and reporters evaluated submissions and selected the winners.

The winner and finalists will be honored this fall at a joint event with Corporate Counsel’s sibling publication The American Lawyer. The dinner will salute The American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners, the 20 firms from the Am Law 200 selected for the magazine’s “A-List,” and the winners and finalists of Corporate Counsel’s Best Legal Department competition.

The award-winning Corporate Counsel, the nation’s leading magazine for general counsel and in-house attorneys at corporations across the country, is published by ALM in print and on the Web at www.corpcounsel.com.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (May 18, 2010) – ALM’s Law Journal Press, a leading publisher of books for legal professionals, today announced the publication of “Intellectual Property in Business Transactions: Protecting the Competitive Advantage” by Glen P. Belvis. This unique legal guide offers specific strategies that enable attorneys to harness the full power of intellectual property rights while also safeguarding them. The book’s scope includes patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets; tax, anti-trust and securities law; IP group management; attorney client privilege; and conflicts of interest. A detailed table of contents, as well as ordering information on this and other Law Journal Press books, is available at http://www.lawcatalog.com/default.cfm.

Belvis has more than 25 years’ experience in all facets of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related antitrust matters.  A shareholder of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione for 20 years, he recently joined Foro Energy Inc., a venture capital, DOE-funded development drilling company, as chief IP counsel.

“Intellectual Property in Business Transactions: Protecting the Competitive Advantage” offers detailed legal and practical solutions, as well as forms for protecting vital information in a variety of situations.  Topics covered include: six ways to gain economic advantage from an intellectual property portfolio; choosing a form of intellectual property protection most likely to lead to damages and injunctive relief; antitrust problems when a copyright or patent owner overreaches; working with national and international standards-setting bodies; intellectual property holding companies; and attorney-client privilege in intellectual property litigation.

The book is designed to help practitioners, in-house counsel, information officers and dealmakers formulate profitable short- and long-term intellectual property strategies.  It is essential reading for anyone seeking to maximize IP value while minimizing legal risk. 

Law Journal Press, a division of ALM, publishes more than 130 books on a broad range of legal and business topics. Written by leading lawyers and experts and updated regularly, Law Journal
Press treatises offer definitive and timely information, insightful analysis and practitioner-oriented guidance for the legal profession.

ALM, an integrated media company, is a leading provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt.com, Insight Conferences, Law.com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

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NEW YORK (May 17, 2010) – ALM Legal Intelligence, a leading source of business intelligence for the legal profession, today released a new qualitative study, “Changes In Staffing Structure of Law Firms,” that examines the impact of the current economic recession on large law firms. Based on in-depth research interviews with senior decisionmakers at Am Law 100/200 law firms across the country, the report indicates that law firms have taken a wide variety of steps to adjust their staffing, business and operating models, including reducing both partner and associate ranks; cost cutting and outsourcing; and increasing use of alternatives to traditional hourly billing arrangements. The report also utilizes supporting data from a variety of recent ALM Legal Intelligence studies. For more information, visit www.almlegalintelligence.com.

Among the findings of the study:

• De-equitization of partners and continued growth of non-equity partnerships is seen as an ongoing trend.

• Firms are actively exploring new approaches to associate hiring and promotion policies that offer more flexibility in adjusting staffing to economic conditions. Associates’ billable hour requirements, however, have not changed in the majority of firms despite the economy.

• Due to economic pressure and lower demand, many top tier firms are reaching down for clients and projects. Some leading firms have been prepared to work at deep discounts or even for no fee in order to maintain market share and position.

• Cost reduction on all operating business fronts is viewed as a priority, with cutbacks in travel, marketing and entertainment being initial targets. More firms are examining and implementing outsourcing programs as an important element of their cost reduction programs.

ALM Legal Intelligence offers detailed business information for and about the legal industry, focused on the top U.S. and international law firms. The division’s online research Web service, www.almlegalintelligence.com, provides subscribers with direct, on-demand access to ALM LI’s extensive database of surveys, rankings and lists related to law firms and the legal industry. The site also includes an online store where non-subscribers can, on an individual basis, purchase and download preformatted individual law firm reports, research reports and selected current-year survey data. ALM Legal Intelligence is a division of ALM.

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