Nichole Morford

August 16, 2017 | Delaware Business Court Insider

When is an extended family a control block? The Delaware Court of Chancery acknowledged that while familial relations among a group of stockholders are not per se sufficient to establish a controlling stockholder block, a family that regularly refers to itself as a single unit may constitute a controlling stockholder block.

By Benyamin S. Ross and Taylor Hathaway-Zepeda

6 minute read

August 14, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Analysis of five elements that together will combine to determine the market position, financial health and, ultimately, sustainability of a law firm.

By Marcie Borgal Shunk

6 minute read

August 14, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

The automation of certain attorney functions has given rise to "smart contracts," which are gaining popularity owing to the use of block chains.

By Jonathan Bick

7 minute read

August 11, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Before this challenge, lawyers and clients have broadly used the privilege to make more things disappear than has David Copperfield, the famed illusionist.

By EDITORIAL BOARD

9 minute read

August 09, 2017 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The predominant approach in most jurisdictions to determine whether the dismissal of a derivative action based on the failure to adequately plead demand futility bars re-litigation of this issue in a subsequent derivative action brought by a different stockholder plaintiff is to apply the traditional legal test for issue preclusion.

By Albert H. Manwaring IV

18 minute read

August 07, 2017 | Daily Business Review

With South Florida as the proving ground, these 10 women became overachievers in a profession that has slowly made room for them over time.

By Nichole Morford | Daily Business Review |

2 minute read

August 07, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The vanishing trial may be the most important issue facing our civil justice system today. It deserves our continued attention.

By Amanda Farahany, Barrett & Farahany

8 minute read

August 02, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Blank Rome's Eric Fikry Appointed President of Camden County Bar. Suriano Named Among Top 25 Leading Women™ Entrepreneurs & Business Owners. Bressler's Murphy Elected PWJ Trustee.

By Nichole Morford | New Jersey Law Journal |

12 minute read

August 01, 2017 | National Law Journal

The National Law Journal spotlights seven companies in the Washington area that have effectively managed corporate counsel operations in areas including overall performance, scoring big deals or litigation success, managing outside counsel, promoting diversity and handling compliance and regulatory matters.

By Nichole Morford

2 minute read

July 26, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Since the publication of the GC Open Letter, we've heard a lot of perspectives from the legal industry. But we haven't heard more about the Experiment from the GCs, themselves. So we talked to six of them to learn which hypotheses they're most interested in, as well as their motivations.

By Firoz Dattu and Catherine Cook, AdvanceLaw

4 minute read