Business of Law

Niche Trademark Practice Taps Solo’s Entrepreneurial Genes

Josh Gerben knows a thing or two about running a small business. The Washington, D.C., solo comes from a long line of entrepreneurs, including a great-grandmother who ran a successful bakery and a father who ran a chain of automotive repair shops. Gerben began working early, helping grow the family…

Dec 1, 2010 6:45 AM CST

ABA Task Force Uses Software to Find Common IP Security Provisions

Creating legal forms by online committee may seem like a dreadful idea, but not to John Murdock III of the ABA Model Intellectual Property Security Agreement Task Force. The task force is spearheading an online project using software to create a model IP security agreement. Software developed by Minneapolis-based KIIAC…

Dec 1, 2010 6:40 AM CST

Merge-Mania: Firms Link Up to Cover More Ground

A hot quarter of regional and boutique law firm acquisitions, potential mega-firm merger talks, and the marriage of prominent U.S. and U.K. law firms has led some analysts and law firm leaders to predict more domestic and global unions in the near future. SNR Denton—formerly Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and…

Dec 1, 2010 6:34 AM CST