News & Press Releases

This article, authored by Member Linda Bentley, discusses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) historic step approving the first drug in the United States that contains a purified drug substance derived from marijuana.

Member Jen Rubin authored this column discussing California Governor Brown’s signing into law the nation’s first gender diversity mandate for female representation on public company boards.

This feature story discusses on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) new final rule changing the claim construction standard for America Invents Act (AIA) reviews. Brad Scheller is among the intellectual property attorneys quoted providing commentary.

This feature article discusses the October 9th deadline for employers in New York to adopt sexual harassment prevention policies and provide them to workers. The article features commentary from employment lawyers including Brie Kluytenaar, an attorney in Mintz’s New York office.

This New York Times feature article looks at Shahed Hussain and his evolution throughout the years — from asylum-seeking immigrant to petty criminal to trusted ally of government prosecutors. Mr. Hussain is back in the news as his company is at the center of a deadly limousine highway crash outside Albany, NY. Jason P.W. Halperin, a Mintz Member and former federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, is referenced in the article – his quotes pulled from a jury address in a bomb-plot case in which Mr. Hussain acted as a corroborating witness.

This New York Law Journal feature article highlights the arrival of experience trademark strategist, Michael Graif. Michael, who previously led the intellectual property practice at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, joins the Mintz New York office as a Member.