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On January 8, 2014, Judge Orrick of the Northern District of California ruled that Bazaarvoice’s acquisition of competitor PowerReviews violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act.  The ruling was in favor of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).  The public version of the opinion was made available on January 10.  In its self-described “necessarily lengthy opinion,” which spans 141 pages, the court ultimately found that the facts overwhelmingly showed the acquisition will have anticompetitive effects and that Bazaarvoice did not overcome the government’s prima facie case.  The case included 40 witnesses at trial, more than 100 depositions and 980 exhibits.  Dr. Carl Shapiro testified as DOJ’s economist and Dr. Ramsey Shehadeh testified on behalf of Bazaarvoice/PowerReviews.  The court noted that the case presented some difficult issues, including that there were no generally accepted “market share statistics … [Read more...] about Judge Rules in Favor of DOJ Finding Bazaarvoice / PowerReviews Merger Anticompetitive (Department of Justice)

On the wall, he noticed a poster of Lance Armstrong on his bike with a quote: "What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"Tygart appreciated Armstrong's message about hard work and the encouragement the cyclist had given millions of cancer victims."Lance was a true hero to so many people," Tygart says. "He had beaten cancer, won seven times at the Tour de France, dated Sheryl Crow and had become an American icon. His story was such an inspirational story to so many people, including me."Little did Tygart know at the time how intertwined his life would become with Armstrong's. During the past decade, the two men have battled mightily.They accused each other of lying and cheating. They threatened each other's financial future. Diehard advocates of Armstrong's innocence threatened Tygart.Today, everyone knows Lance Armstrong doped in order to win.Travis Tygart is the reason they know it.Tygart has become America's evangelist of ethics. His sermons … [Read more...] about The lawyer who took down Lance Armstrong is on a mission to end the culture of cheating

A non-US-based commodity firm that allegedly tried to square up its books at month-end by placing matched buys and sells on a US futures exchange was charged with wash trading by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. At the time – on or after first notice day in the relevant delivery month – the firm was precluded from transferring trades through book entry transfer transactions because of exchange rules. And last month an organization renowned for drafting model state laws approved a statutory framework for state regulation of persons engaged in a virtual currency business. As a result, the following matters are covered in this week’s edition of Bridging the Week:Non-US Commodity Firm Settles CFTC Allegations of Wash Trading for US $300,000 Fine (includes Compliance Weeds);Former Floor Broker Agrees to US $200,000 Fine to Resolve ICE Futures U.S. Spoofing Allegations (includes Compliance Weeds);Banking Regulators Give Capital Break for Cleared … [Read more...] about Bridging the Week: August 14 to 18 and August 21, 2017 (Wash Trades; Spoofing; Bank Capital; Virtual Currency Businesses)

We tried Adobe Ac­robat in Lotus Notes mail, and it did the job very well. It al­lowed us to take one, some or all of our e-mails and preserve them in an Acrobat file. Attach­ments were also preserved in our limited testing. Similar Acrobat buttons add functionality to Microsoft Office applications.But with success comes imitators. Do an Internet search of “PDF utilities” and you will find a plethora of Acrobat wannabes. Third party applications that do some of what Acrobat does, or extend what Acrobat does, range in price from free to more than $170. The third party applications tend to focus narrowly, and some beat Acrobat regarding certain functions. Some are low cost enough to merit consideration by the cost conscious. Acrobat AlternativesAmong the various options to try are:• Abbyy PDF Transformer 2.0. This is a favorite of ours. Its op­tical character recognition func­tionality is superb. Transformer appears to have the best OCR of any … [Read more...] about ‘Acrobatics’ with a Twist–No Adobe

When Microsoft surveyed Office 2003 users about features they wanted to see in Office 2007, most of the requests were for features already in Office 2003. That fits the time-honored maxim of computing: We use only 10 percent of the features of the programs we have.I have noticed that many lawyers who make innovative use of technology in their practices take advantage of program features not commonly used by others. Often, this results from the lack of budget or permission to install new programs. Necessity becomes the mother of invention.But I want to push a couple of steps beyond just making better use of the standard programs you have, like office suites and Adobe Acrobat. I want to look at your standard software with new eyes, as if you are the old TV character Angus MacGyver.The recent release of Microsoft Office 2010 and other office suites makes now a great time to think about how you use these programs. (Because Microsoft Office is used in so many law offices, I’ll use it … [Read more...] about MacGyver Your Software: Necessity Reveals Useful Tools You Never Knew Your PC Had