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Luis Salazar

Luis Salazar

October 03, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Board of Contributors: Romney tape likely violates federal and state privacy laws

Have we become numb to invasions of privacy? The Romney tape likely violated Florida's "intrusion law," which protects private interactions as well as federal and state wiretap laws forbidding secret recordings.

By Luis Salazar

4 minute read

September 19, 2012 | Daily Business Review

E-Discovery: Can e-discovery and social media obligations and ethics be friends?

Social networking is no longer limited to personal communication, as businesses are turning to social media sites to market their products and strengthen their relationships with consumers. As courts begin to catch up with the deluge of social media, judges are ordering the production of social networking profiles and other communications from those accounts.

By Luis Salazar and Aaron P. Honaker

4 minute read

April 25, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Can smart software sift through documents better than lawyers?

Attorney Luis Salazar writes about a New York magistrate judge's opinion showing that predictive coding is more accurate in finding relevant documents and data than actual human review. And it's cheaper too.

By Luis Salazar

4 minute read

March 22, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Board of Contributors: Supreme Court ruling opens floodgates to negligence, fraud claims

Attorneys Luis Salazar and Aaron Honaker write that while the Florida Supreme Court's ruling limiting the economic-loss rule to products liability cases likely brings relief to litigators struggling with the rule's application, they may now have to deal with negligence and fraud claims that would have been barred.

By Luis Salazar and Aaron Honaker

4 minute read

July 18, 2002 | Law.com

Courts Weigh in on Business-Judgment Rule

When an emerging growth company teeters on insolvency, directors and officers' duties suddenly change. A return to the company's investors now becomes secondary, and, instead, management has a fiduciary duty to shepherd the company's remaining assets for the benefit of creditors. Two recent cases have shed light on these duties -- and liabilities -- of officers and directors.

By Luis Salazar

11 minute read

October 30, 2006 | National Law Journal

Fiduciary duties are clarified

As directors rise to the challenges of the post-Enron era, so have the Delaware courts risen to their aid by waging a silent, persistent battle to reinvigorate the business-judgment rule and protect directors and officers of troubled and failed companies.

By Luis Salazar/Special to The National Law Journal

10 minute read

June 05, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Board of Contributors: For Now, Users' Privacy Rests in Hands of App Developers

The proposed APPS Act attempts to address the unprecedented privacy issues created by mobile apps, which follow the user and collect enormous amounts of personal data. But, as the app industry fights the regulations, the bill's future remains uncertain, attorney Luis Salazar writes.

By Luis Salazar

4 minute read

July 27, 2012 | Daily Business Review

'Virtual abodes' on social media considered for serving processes

More litigators are turning to social media to find elusive defendants and are increasing their efforts to serve process via these same sites, Miami attorneys Luis Salazar and Aaron P. Honaker note.

By Luis Salazar and Aaron P. Honaker

4 minute read

November 04, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Insolvency Creates a Conflict of Duties

By Luis Salazar

10 minute read

September 08, 2006 | Law.com

New Bankruptcy Ruling Holds Directors and Officers Owe Fiduciary Duties to a Subsidiary

In June, the Delaware Bankruptcy Court ruled that directors and officers of insolvent subsidiary companies owe fiduciary duties to both its creditors and the subsidiary itself. Before this, leading cases on this issue held that fiduciary duties were owed only to creditors and the single-shareholder, parent companies. Though the new decision stands on some firm legal ground, it is sure to create more uncertainty and doubt in the boardroom, according to Greenberg Traurig's Luis Salazar.

By Luis Salazar

7 minute read