The already arduous road to patenting a great idea is getting even longer.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court raised the bar on what the law defines as the “standard of obviousness” in patent cases. In short, if a business or technique is so obvious that anyone could have invented it, it shouldn’t merit a patent.
While […]

CHICAGO (WBBM) — As the economy slows and the job market weakens, more employees will find themselves suddenly out of work. WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger has been talking with a Chicago lawyer who says workers should know their rights. Howard Emmerman, an attorney at Chicago law firm Beerman, Swerdlowe, says most laid off employees never see […]

When it comes to promoting your law firm through PR, it’s a very crowded market. You have to make sure you identify what makes you different and then shout about it to the right people.
Your first major decision is whether to hire an agency or employ someone in-house to undertake the promotion of the firm.
Bear […]

Harvard Law School’s unprecedented initiative to waive the final year of tuition for students who agree to work in the public sector will provide a measure of relief for government and nonprofit agencies that struggle to attract and retain debt-burdened young lawyers, officials in those fields said yesterday.
The program, announced yesterday, will save students who […]

Unless you already have a well-established book of business, networking is an important business development activity. If you succeed in your networking, it enables you to build a name, and it can help you stand out from your competition. If you become a good networker, you will develop a reputation as a center of influence, […]

South Korea remains one of the last countries in Asia to liberalize its legal services market. Currently, foreign law firms are prohibited from establishing offices in Korea, and lawyers with foreign licenses are not officially allowed to practice foreign law. Although there are approximately 400 foreign attorneys employed as “foreign legal consultants” in various Korean law firms, they are not permitted to work independently and there is no formal registration system recognizing their status as foreign lawyers. But the landscape may be about to change.