Tag: In-House Salaries

* The In-House Compensation Report is out! It’s like the Colbert Report! But different! [Above the Law]

* Hallowed be thy taxes: Looks like the Supreme Court is about to make it easier for religious schools to fill the collection plate. [Intelligencer]

* Looks like student loans will be back in effect come the end of January. Good thing you’ve set aside those bonuses to put a dent in your highest interest loans. Right? [The Guardian]

* Britney’s newest signature? Her own. Cheers to planning your estate on your own! Sure counsel would love to help if you want it, though. [Rolling Stone]

* Meta (read: Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp) will be able to collect a LOT of biometric info from you. Maybe we should thinking about the 4th Amendment and corporations? [Insider]

* “We believe the magistrate judge’s decision that Brendan Dassey’s confession was coerced by investigators, and that no reasonable court could have concluded otherwise, is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law.” Prosecutors in Wisconsin have appealed the overturned conviction of “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey. He’ll remain in prison pending the outcome of the appeal. [New York Times]

* A Canadian judge is facing possible removal from the bench after asking this question to the accuser in a rape trial: “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” The judge also made other inappropriate remarks during the trial, and blames it on his failure to understand changes to the country’s sexual-assault laws. [ABC News]

* Desperate times sometimes call for really desperate measures? California-based Prism Patents is cutting its executives’ compensation by two-thirds in an attempt to come up with some cash. Its general counsel’s salary fell from $240,000 to $90,000, and the company’s CEO now makes $12 (not a typo), down from $300,000. [Big Law Business]

* The battle between Houston Law School and the Houston College of Law (formerly South Texas Law) rages on, and now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is involved. Thanks to a complaint lodged by U. Houston, the USPTO has suspended Houston College’s trademark application for its new name. [Houston Chronicle via TaxProf Blog]

* It doesn’t matter if Romy and Michelle invented Post-It Notes or if serial inventor Alan Amron did, because your lawsuit against 3M is likely to be dismissed — especially if you’ve already settled a prior $400 million suit over the product’s inventorship for $12,000 and released the company from all of your future claims. [CBS Minnesota]