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View From Morgan Lewis: The 2013 Capital Gains Tax Increase Highlights the …Bloomberg LawBeginning in 2013, long-term capital gains tax rates increased from 15 percent to 20 percent. Additionally, certain provisions of the new health care reform have imposed a new 3.8 percent tax on capital gains for certain high-income individuals in 2013 …and more »

After Apple Lashes Out at Morgan Lewis, Patent Holder Fires BackThe American LawyerEarlier this month Apple Inc. filed an astonishing motion to disqualify opposing counsel in a patent suit pending in San Francisco federal district court. The tech giant accused a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, one of Apple's longtime go-to law …and more »

Was former Morgan Lewis partner a patent troll targeting a law firm client?ABA JournalWhile working for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, an environmental litigation partner reportedly participated for years, with his wife, in the affairs of a tech company that has since become a significant issue for the law firm and a major client. Now unusual …and more »

PG Teacher, Morgan Grad Up for a Steve Harvey Hoodie AwardAfro AmericanA few months before he completed his degree at Morgan, Lewis's aunt helped him get a job working as a substitute teacher in the seventh and eighth grade at Drew Freeman Middle School in the Suitland-Silver Hill area. But Lewis' first experience working …

Apple Bid To DQ Hagens Berman Over Morgan Lewis Tie SlammedLaw360 (subscription)Law360, New York (June 12, 2013, 5:04 PM ET) -- Patent holder FlatWorld Interactives LLC on Tuesday blasted Apple Inc.'s bid to disqualify its counsel in the companies' patent battle, arguing Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP hadn't obtained sensitive …

Reed Smith Adds Ex-Morgan Lewis Employment Pro In SFLaw360 (subscription)Law360, New York (June 11, 2013, 5:50 PM ET) -- Reed Smith on Monday announced the addition of a former New Jersey assistant U.S. attorney and ex-Morgan Lewis & Bockius partner to its labor and employment group in its growing San Francisco office.

Apple, betrayed by its own law firmArs TechnicaMeanwhile, the pressure has surely started to mount at Morgan Lewis, which has been a key firm handling sensitive patent matters for Apple since 2003. The venerable firm has reaped huge rewards from assisting more than half the Fortune 100; partners at …

Biglaw Partner's Company Patent Trolls Firm ClientAbove the LawFlatWorld is partly owned by the named inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.How a lawyer from Apple's own legal firm turned to patent trollingThe VergeLawyer at Apple law firm started planning patent attack just after iPhone …tuaw.comall 4 news articles »

Apple Inc. Seeks Removal Of Firm In Patent RowDaily Report (registration)While Morgan Lewis isn't representing Apple in the Northern District of California case of Flatworld Interactive v. Apple, the appearance of a Morgan Lewis lawyer's name on a Flatworld privilege log a year into the case caught the attention of an in …

Morgan Lewis Brews Up Win in Coffee Pod IP WarThe American LawyerRogers Family Coffee Co. wants to challenge Keurig Inc.'s dominance in the multi-billion dollar market for single-serving coffee pods. That'll be a difficult task, but Rogers's lawyers at Morgan Lewis & Bockius won a ruling on May 24 that should help.