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The Legal Intelligencer

Striking the Right Balance With Your Newfound Authority

As a grade “K-JD,” or someone who completed all schooling, from finger-painting to issue-spotting, with no gaps in between, graduating law school and entering the “real world” required many adjustments.
12 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Declines Confidential Treatment to Nonparty's Claimed Sensitive Business Info

American courts have long recognized that the public enjoys a First Amendment right of access to judicial proceedings and records. While forceful, the right is only presumptive, and the public's interest in access may be overcome with an adequate showing of need.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Your Contingency Fee May Be at Risk if Your Client Files for Bankruptcy

Attorneys bringing personal injury and other suits on a contingency fee basis often face bankruptcy-related issues. A defendant may be insolvent, a…
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

President Trump Signs Disaster Tax Relief Bill in Wake of Hurricanes

With overwhelming bi-partisan support, President Donald Trump signed sweeping tax relief measures into law for victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and…
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Psst … Want to Buy Some Sovereign Immunity?

Facing a high-stakes patent validity proceeding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company assigned the IP rights being challenged to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe. Because hey—sovereign immunity!
21 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Art of Mediating: The Goal Is to Settle, Not Win

With the uncertainty of what a jury will do in a particular case and the significant costs associated with trying a case to verdict, alternative dispute…
17 minute read

Daily Business Review

Shifting Sands: Sanctions and the Failure to Preserve Data

Electronic discovery has changed how attorneys think about preservation of evidence. Gone are the days of filing cabinets where documents can be locked away, safe from loss. Lawsuits today are won and lost on electronically stored information (ESI), which can be deleted or overwritten by a party's computer system automatically and unintentionally.
10 minute read

Litigation Daily

'Wolf of Wall Street' Lawyer's Libel Case Is Just Making Things Worse

You'd like to think a lawyer would recognize when filing a lawsuit is not just ill-advised, but might actually make things worse. Or not. Case in point: Attorney Andrew Greene's libel suit against Paramount Pictures.
11 minute read

Here's What Law Students Think of Susskind's Ideas on the Profession's Future

We asked a group of law students and a law grad focused the state of legal education what they think of Richard Susskind's tips for finding the right firm where they can build a future. They didn't hold back.
11 minute read

Litigation Daily

Facing a Potential Litigation Inferno, PG&E Looks to Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan to Hold the Line

The ace litigator is trying to stop a potential conflagration in its tracks. At issue is whether PG&E will face punitive damages in the 2015 Butte fire.
22 minute read

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