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Some of the most elite tech companies in the world will defend themselves in a patent litigation hearing to be held at the University of Virginia School of Law on Jan. 20 from 1-5 p.m. in Caplin Auditorium. U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis of the Eastern District of Virginia will preside at the

As the 14th Powell Fellow in Legal Services , University of Virginia School of Law student Cat Martin '15 will help Philadelphia homeowners avoid foreclosure due to back taxes. Next year Martin will start her fellowship at the Homeownership and Consumer Law Unit of Community Legal Services of

How authorities decide whether a threat is criminal has grown murky in a world where many of us communicate electronically, often on social media.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Brandon Garrett's new book, "Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations," which will be released this month by Harvard University Press, examines the lenient backroom deals federal prosecutors are increasingly forging with big business.

Apple stock was a fantastic investment years ago, but is it too volatile now following an unsteady launch of the iPhone 6? Members of the student-run Rivanna Investments at the University of Virginia School of Law are learning the financial skills to know the answer — and how to pitch an investment

Warren Gorrell , a corporate partner and former co-CEO of Hogan Lovells, will welcome the University of Virginia School of Law's Class of 2017 during orientation on Monday. Gorrell, a 1979 graduate of the Law School, recently spoke about his path from associate to leading one of the nation's top

Consumers frequently pay too much for retirement plans by choosing more expensive funds for their investments, University of Virginia law professor Quinn Curtis and Yale law professor Ian Ayres reveal in a new paper that will be published in the Yale Law Journal. In " Beyond Diversification: The

University of Virginia School of Law students negotiated a mock business deal with Northwestern University students this semester as part of a course offering a new, hands-on approach to learning. In the scenario, the 15 UVA Law students who took International Business Negotiation represented a U.S

Michael Doran, an expert in tax policy and legislative process, will join the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in the fall as a professor of law. Doran, who previously served as an associate professor at UVA Law from 2005-09, is currently a professor of law at Georgetown University Law

University of Virginia School of Law professor Margo Bagley set out in early February to be an informal observer at World Intellectual Property Organization committee talks. By the time she returned, she had rendered expert negotiations assistance to the government of Mozambique — beginning a

An upcoming symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will discuss how lawyers can most effectively meet the needs of their sports and entertainment clients. "Will You Protect This House?: Understanding and Meeting Client Needs," will be held Friday, Feb. 28 from 8 a.m-5 p.m in the Law

An upcoming symposium at the University of Virginia School of Law will bring together leading academics and practitioners — including Myron T. Steele '70 , former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware — to examine the state of corporate governance in the wake of the corporate collapses of

Andrew Vollmer, a former deputy general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been named director of the University of Virginia School of Law's John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program . Vice Dean George Geis said Vollmer, who also will teach courses at UVA Law, brings years of

Christine Tschiderer, a 2012 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has been selected to receive a prestigious Equal Justice Works Fellowship to help low-income working mothers who have experienced discrimination in the workplace. For her two-year fellowship, Tschiderer will launch a

The University of Virginia School of Law's First Amendment Clinic has filed a federal lawsuit seeking the release of a sealed non-prosecution agreement between the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas and a Houston-based company that employed undocumented immigrants.

A streaming video portal called "StreamMe" that was dreamed up by two University of Virginia graduate students won first place Monday in the Virginia Law Entrepreneurial Concept Competition, the Law School round of UVA's annual university-wide business concept competition. "StreamMe is a single

Some of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars will discuss the free speech rights of businesses during a conference at the University of Virginia School of Law on Oct. 25. "Compelled Commercial Speech," the second Jefferson Symposium to be sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the

In order to stabilize funding for K-12 education after several years of budget cuts, policymakers at all levels of government need to take a fresh approach to generating revenue for schools, University of Virginia law professor Mildred W. Robinson argues in a new paper. Robinson, the Henry L. and

University of Virginia law professors will analyze the most important Supreme Court decisions of the past term — including cases involving same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action in higher education — at the annual Supreme Court Roundup at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12 in

University of Virginia law professor Ruth Mason has been named national reporter for the United States at the 2014 Congress of the European Association of Tax Law Professors , an organization of professors teaching tax law at universities in Europe. Mason, an expert in international and comparative