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Daily Business Review

Keys to Successful Property Insurance Recoveries Following Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria

In the wake of Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria, the 2017 hurricane season is turning out to be one of the most catastrophic on record.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Bedsworth: Conclusions I've Drawn

I sit down every month feeling like I should start with an apology to all the people who will come to this page and think, "Aw jeez, not this guy again."
17 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyer Was Unaware Client Would Need Her Policy Benefits, But That Didn't Excuse Late Notice to Insurer

An insured's failure to notify her insurer for more than four years after an accident, and 18 months after filing a lawsuit, violated her insurance policy's notice requirement and was not excused by her lawyer being unaware that she might need coverage from her insurer, an appellate court in Georgia ruled.
25 minute read

Litigation Daily

How Not to Write a Demand Letter, Roy Moore-Style

There is sloppy legal writing. There is bad legal writing. And then there's the three-page demand letter that Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton R. Garmon sent to Alabama Media Group on Tuesday.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

PAP Honors Local Paralegal as Part of Pro Bono Celebration

The American Bar Association (ABA) 9TH Annual National Celebration of Pro Bono was held from Oct. 22, through Oct. 28. The National Celebration of Pro Bono highlights the increasing need for pro bono services and access to justice.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Interstate Issues in Enforcement of Noncompete Provisions

Employers do not want employees they have trained and provided with proprietary business information to leave and go to work for competitors. Buyers who purchase businesses do not want the sellers to start new, competing businesses.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Courts Uphold Strict Limitations on Liability For Oversight Claims

It is an all-too familiar accusation to many directors: If only you had done something more, the corporation could have avoided an injury or loss. Since the mid-1990s, Delaware courts have repeatedly recognized that attempting to pin personal liability on directors for their alleged inaction is “possibly the most difficult theory in corporation law upon which a plaintiff might hope to win a judgment,” as in In re Caremark International Derivative Litigation, 698 A.2d 959, 967 (Del. Ch. 1996).
20 minute read

Litigation Daily

Orrick's Hermle Hits Back at Nasty Depiction in Ellen Pao's New Book

That Ellen Pao has nothing nice to say in her new book “Reset” about Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigator Lynne Hermle is not surprising. Turns out, Hermle doesn't have a lot of nice things to say about Pao either.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Seriously, Guys, It's Not That Confusing

Are you fellows playing with us? Or are you honestly that clueless about what counts as inappropriate interaction with women at work?
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ban Candidates From Soliciting Campaign Dough

Jerry H. Goldfeder writes: An across-the-board ban on candidate solicitation would allow them to focus on the issues, liberating them from the arduous task of dialing for dollars.
10 minute read

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