In 15 months, two dueling business coalitions have spent $4.3 million lobbying on legislation that calls for the biggest changes in United States patent law in more than 50 years.

In Maryland's booming prison economy there are winners and losers. Inmates face financial ruin and state taxpayers lose, too - about $39,000 per year, per inmate. Prison entrepreneurs, for whom each inmate is a government-subsidized business opportunity,

NEW YORK----The American Lawyer magazine reported today that two law firms, Skadden, Arps and Latham & Watkins, broke the industry's $2 billion gross revenue barrier for the first time.

BEIJING, CHINA: China's first anti-monopoly law, which was proposed 15 years ago and was not passed until last year, comes into effect Friday (1 Aug).

CHAMPION - Armed with his gift of gab and a Garmin GPS mounted on the dash of his tow truck, John Ramsey last week was off for another 10- to 12-hour work day. And despite the faltering economy, business for Ramsey has been good. He is vice president of o