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Counsel to Counsel Article December 11, 2009 Naturally, the appeal of outsourcing grows in tight economic times, as cash-strapped companies look to find efficiencies anywhere they can. But outsourcing is no panacea, and unpleasant surprises await the unwary.
| | Tobacco Firms Sue To Block Marketing Limits
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 12, 2009 A coalition of cigarette makers have filed a lawsuit to block marketing restrictions in a law that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco.
| | Profiles in Partnership: A Study in Compatibility -- Cummins Inc. and Baker & Daniels LLP
Hudnall A. Pfeiffer; Baker & Daniels LLP;
Counsel to Counsel Article November 11, 2009, previously published by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® Counsel to Counsel Magazine
on September/October 2009 Cummins Inc.
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| | Best Practices: Reducing Outside Counsel Costs
Counsel to Counsel Article November 11, 2009, previously published by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® Counsel to Counsel Magazine on September/October 2009 Situation: Corporate law departments are like any other internal organization. They must submit and stick to budget forecasts. That means exercising greater control over spending on outside legal services, which often consume the lion's share of a legal department budget.
| | Counsel to Counsel Magazine -- September/October 2009 Complete Issue
Counsel to Counsel Article November 10, 2009 "The traditional model is, you have a matter and you either do it yourself or you hand it over," Mark Sifferlen, a senior in-house counsel at Cummins Inc., tells us in one of this issue's Profiles in Partnership. "That's just how a lot of law firms work."
| | Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds that Asymptomatic Plaintiffs May Sue for Medical Monitoring
Stephen J. Kane, Michael A. Olsen, Daniel L. Ring; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 9, 2009, previously published on November 4, 2009 In a recent opinion that bucks the national trend, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court authorized plaintiffs who have no manifest physical injuries, but who assert "subcellular changes" caused by cigarette smoking, to sue for medical monitoring. , 914 N.E.2d 891 (Mass. 2009).
| | ITC Denies Request for Reconsideration in Certain Cigarettes (337-TA-643)
Eric W. Schweibenz; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article October 30, 2009, previously published on October 29, 2009 On October 28, 2009, the United States International Trade Commission issued an Order denying a petition for reconsideration filed by Respondent Alcesia SRL ("Alcesia") in Certain Cigarettes and Packaging Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-643).
| | U.S. to Prohibit Drawback Claims for Excise Tax on Imports
Duane Morris LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 30, 2009, previously published on October 21, 2009 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed amendments to its regulations that would preclude the filing of a "substitution drawback claim for internal revenue excise taxes paid on imported merchandise in situations where no excise tax was paid upon the substituted merchandise or...
| | New Fire Safe Cigarette Certification - Deadlines in 2010
Paige S. Fitzgerald, Nancyellen Keane; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 28, 2009, previously published on October 23, 2009 In 2003, New York passed legislation designed to enhance safety by requiring cigarettes sold in New York after June 2004 to be manufactured with papers that would make the cigarettes self-extinguishing. This initial piece of legislation on the subject of fire safe cigarettes, New York's fire safe...
|  | Massachusetts Recognizes a Claim for Medical Monitoring Absent Symptoms of Physical Harm
Kaye Scholer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 28, 2009, previously published on October 22, 2009 In a recent decision of importance to the life sciences industry, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that smokers who sued a cigarette manufacturer "for medical monitoring, based on subclinical effects of exposure to cigarette smoke and increased risk of lung cancer, state a...
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