Alex Vorro

November 07, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Liability law experts say that the three main targets of lawsuits related to the cantaloupe listeria outbreak have just $17 million in liability coverage, which could cause a substantial amount of collateral legal damage.

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

November 04, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Another page was written in the epic drama surrounding Bank of America Corp. and its seemingly endless legal trouble this year.A lawyer representing American International Group Inc. told U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley in New York Wednesday that investors want the shroud of secrecy lifted over the proposed $8.5...

By Alex Vorro

5 minute read

November 03, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Who else wants a piece of the credit card companies? Weeks after news broke that automated teller machine owners are fed up with Visa and MasterCard allegedly artificially raising the prices consumers pay for ATM use, a federal judge heard oral arguments yesterday that the card companies are still choking...

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

November 02, 2011 | Inside Counsel

When not drilling for oil, Transocean Ltd. also is effective at boring into its legal adversaries. The Swiss drilling rig owner yesterday filed a motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana looking to put the screws to BP Plc, forcing the petroleum...

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read

November 01, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Much like its neighbor a few hundred miles west across the great state of Georgia, South Carolinas recent immigration law is under scrutiny by the federal government.

By Alex Vorro

3 minute read

October 31, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

How cloud computing can benefit your legal department

By Alex Vorro

6 minute read

October 31, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

A best practices guide to doing business up North

By Ashley Post, Alex Vorro

43 minute read

October 31, 2011 | Inside Counsel

With the oracles currently divining that the in-house job market is trending upward, the prognostication proved true for a group of partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher last week.

By Alex Vorro

7 minute read

October 27, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Sometimes even the Securities and Exchange Commission can shock people. The commission yesterday unanimously voted to adopt new rules requiring certain hedge fund and private fund advisers to report confidential data to the government.

By Alex Vorro

4 minute read

October 26, 2011 | Inside Counsel

Something is rotten in the state of Delaware. The Delaware Coalition for Open Government Inc., a group of journalists, lawyers, elected officials, government employees and others crusading for greater governmental transparency, yesterday filed a lawsuit against five judges on the states Chancery Court.

By Alex Vorro

2 minute read