People

Robert F. Ruyak

Robert F. Ruyak
1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20004

+1 202.383.6516
+1 202.383.6610 (Fax)



Publications & Speaking Engagements


Articles
"Strategic Planning: Biting the Bullet." Chief Legal Executive (Spring 2004): 53.
"Patent Audit: Turning Assets Into Profits." Litigation & Technology (a supplement to Corporate Legal Times) (June 2000). Co-authored with Alan M. Fisch.
"Symposium: Improving Communications in the Courtroom: Proceedings: Communicating with Juries: The Annenberg Washington Program: Panel Three: Demonstration and Discussion of Technological Advances in the Courtroom." Indiana Law Journal 68 (1993): 1081.
"Litigating in an International Context: Venue and In Personam Jurisdiction Involving Alien Corporations." Antitrust Law Journal 3 (November 1981): 50. Co-authored with Lawrence R. Velvel, Mark W. Pennak.
"Note, United States Country of Origin Marking Requirements: The Application of a Nontariff Trade Barrier." reprinted from Law and Policy in International Business 6, No. 2 (1974).
Speeches
"Strategic Planning: Biting the Bullet." Chief Legal Executive, (Spring 2004).
"Northern Virginia Tech Conference." (April 28, 2003).
"Mock Hearing." 1998 National Patent Board Conference, San Francisco, CA (November 16, 1998).
." Intellectual Property Institute for Corporate Counsel, San Francisco, CA (August 4, 1998).
"Symposium: Improving Communications in the Courtroom: Proceedings: Communicating with Juries: The Annenberg Washington Program: Panel Three: Demonstration and Discussion of Technological Advances in the Courtroom." (April 10, 1992).
"Litigating in an International Context: Venue and In Personam Jurisdiction Involving Alien Corporations." (November 5, 1981). Lawrence R. Velvel and Mark W. Pennak, panel members
Books
Inside the Minds Leading Lawyers: The Advantage of Focus. Aspatore Books, 2003, Article at page 105.
In the News
"Shuffled." Legal Times (May 16, 2005).
"Name Game." Legal Times (May 9, 2005).
"Robert Ruyak: Howrey va Poursuivre son Developpement Europeen." LA Lettre Des Juristes D'Affaires (April 25, 2005).
"Howrey Gains Paris Office with Couste Merger." The Lawyer (April 11, 2005).
"Paris in the Spring." Legal Times (April 11, 2005).
"Howrey Bides Time in Paris." Global Competition Review (April 8, 2005).
"Playing Hard to Get: Despite Their Eligibility, Some Firms Would Rather Stay Single." The Recorder (April 6, 2005).
"Howrey Secures Paris Boutique Takeover." Legal Week (April 3, 2005).
"Howrey's Hire-Wire Act." Legal Times, Law.com, The Recorder (February 14, 2005).
"Lending a Hand." Legal Times (January 10, 2005).
"Firms Ante Up Big Donations." The National Law Journal (January 10, 2005).
"Howrey Digs Deep for Tsunami Relief Fund." The Lawyer (January 6, 2005).
"Howrey Donate $1m, Capital One Pledges $500,000 ." CBS News, Washington Business Journal (January 6, 2005).
"Outsourcing Reaches Corporate Counsel." The Recorder (August 25, 2004).
"Clearly Sun's McNealy Knows How to Adapt-Or Maybe Not." Business Week (August 9, 2004).
"The Road to Riches." The American Lawyer, Legal Times (June 21, 2004).
"Making The Grade." Legal Times (January 29, 2004).
"Looking Abroad for Low-Cost Lawyers." Legal Times (January 19, 2004).
"Change of Venue." The American Lawyer (December 4, 2003).
"Mergers: It's All Talk, but No Action." Legal Times (October 27, 2003).
"Big Firms Begin Hiring For Upturn." Legal Times, The Recorder (August 10, 2003).
"Pro Bono Bulletin Board." Legal Times (August 4, 2003).
"Tobacco Firm, Farmers Reach Deal -- Philip Morris, Others End Growers' Antitrust Suit In $200 Mill ." Wall Street Journal Europ (May 19, 2003).
"Firms still on the Hunt for SEC Lawyers." Legal Times (March 30, 2003).
"Are Firm Managing Partners an Endangered Species?" The Recorder (March 7, 2003).