Today’s Buzz: Conflict Minerals, Million-dollar Salaries, Data Held Hostage, DNA Patents, More

What we learned today:

One law professor thinks lawyers should be satisfied earning $1 million per year. (Bloomberg Law) 

Will “your money or your privacy” become the new standard holdup line? (Mintz Levin) 

A conflict minerals rule was finally adopted by the SEC, 16 months after it was due (Foley Hoag) (Ropes & Gray) (Sheppard Mullin) 

The future of personalized medicine has been called into question by a recent court ruling on the patentability of DNA and DNA analyses (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings) 

You can copyright a building (Cole Schotz) 

Note to gossip magazines: stealing celebrity photos and publishing them? Not “fair use” (Loeb & Loeb) 

Venture capital fundraising for the first half of 2012 is up 31% over the same period last year (Fenwick & West) 

Only one county in the nation’s most populous state regulates in-home caregivers (Hopkins & Carley) 

TSA employees called up for active military duty are now entitled to get their jobs back when they come home (Xpert HR) 

The Asia-Pacific region is a hotbed of geothermal energy development (Baker & McKenzie Australia) 

Not declaring foreign bank accounts can cost non-citizens their U.S. residency (Moskowitz) 

A New York judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill, not of chance. Really. (Pillsbury) 

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