Litigation

Want A Legal Challenge? Depose Justin Bieber

March 11, 2014

If you think your work day was tough, watch the recently-released video of Miami lawyer Mark DiCowden struggling through a […]

New Litigation Risk For M&A Advisors After Delaware Ruling

March 11, 2014

In a case that bodes tougher conflict standards and new litigation risks to M&A advisors, the Delaware Chancery Court last […]

Companies Getting Sued Over Employee Interrogation Techniques

March 10, 2014

A classic police interrogation technique, developed by a law professor in the 1930s, has been widely applied in the business […]

More Mass-Tort Cases Undermined By Plaintiff-Lawyer Corruption

March 10, 2014

Recent rulings show that some plaintiff lawyers are looking to coercion and fraud to replicate David versus Goliath mass-tort lawsuit […]

Book-Cooking Lawyers Violated Cardinal Tenet: Don’t Email Fraud Plans

March 7, 2014

In e-mails spanning nearly four years, former leaders of Dewey & LeBoeuf discussed “fake income,” “accounting tricks,” and their “clueless […]

Company Insider Can Leave, Take Business, Not Breach Fiduciary Duty

March 7, 2014

A Massachusetts court rules that a part owner and key employee of a closely held company who left and started […]

The Hacker Did It – No Coverage

March 6, 2014

Before Target, there was Sony: In 2011, more than seventy million of its user accounts were compromised in a cyber […]

No Right To Jury Trial For Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers

March 5, 2014

A district court has ruled that an employee who sues under the whistleblower provision of Dodd-Frank has no right to […]

Kentucky Gov. Will Hire Outside Counsel In Same-Sex Marriage Case

March 5, 2014

Kentucky’s Attorney General, Jack Conway, says he won’t appeal a federal judge’s decision requiring the state to honor same-sex marriage […]

Chevron Scores Win In Convoluted Pollution Case

March 5, 2014

Oil giant Chevron scored a major victory this week in a decades-long case that is rooted in pollution in Ecuador’s […]

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