• Harbour Antibodies BV v. Teneobio, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-05
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Biotechnology | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian A. Biggs, Stephanie O’Byrne, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Michael Sitzman, DLA Piper LLP (US), San Francisco, CA; Susan Krumplitsch, DLA Piper LLP (US), East Palo Alto, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Megan E. Dellinger, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas Groombridge, Eric Alan Stone, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP, Cold Springs, NY; Jennifer Gordon, Peter Sandel, Tanya S. Manno, Chih-wei Wu, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Wendy A. Whiteford, J. Drew Diamond, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-1807 (MN)

    Court denied motion to disqualify plaintiffs' counsel due to its prior representation of defendant's parent company finding a lack of overlap between the present case and counsel's prior representation of the parent company.

  • The Spring League, LLC v. Frost Brown Todd LLP

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Insurance | Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Courtney R. Prinski, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., New Castle, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Eric D. Selden, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N24C-01-095 EMD CCLD

    Former law firm client failed to establish causal connection to damages where insurance policy secured by counsel expired due to client's failure to pay premiums before a "claim" under the policy arose.

  • GMG Ins. Agency v. Margolis Edelstein

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. Ippoliti, Christopher Isaac, Ippoliti Law Group, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Sally J. Daugherty, Salmon, Ricchezza, Singer & Turchi, LLP, Wilmington, DE; George M. Vinci, Jr., David B. Picker, Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 213, 2023

    Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant in legal malpractice action where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether counsel negligently handled discovery and failed to pursue a summary judgment motion to end the litigation against plaintiff.

  • In re: Wack Jills, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Legal Services | Retail
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Hiller, Hiller Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for assignee.
    for defendant: Daniel K. Astin, Ryan M. Ernst, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Wilmington, DE; Albert A. Ciardi III, Walter W. Gouldsbury III, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Philadelphia, PA; Frederick B. Rosner, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Marc J. Kurzman, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, Stamford, CT for creditors.

    Case Number: 2019-0650-PAF

    Court denied assignee's motion for final distribution and removed assignee upon finding that it had failed to comply with the requirements of the ABC statute and had engaged in apparent self-dealing, including structuring compensation from expenses and then hiring its affiliates to provide seemingly unnecessary services to the trust, such that the assignee failed to act in creditors' best interests.

  • In re: Insys Therapeutics Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Legal Services | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek C. Abbott, Matthew O. Talmo, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric D. Madden, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, Dallas, TX; Keith Y. Cohan, Ryan M. Goldstein, Morgan M. Menchaca, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael W. McDermott, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard C. Pedone, Brian T. Kelly, Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: 19-11292 (JTD)

    Court determined that former officer was obligated to repay advanced legal expenses where he was ultimately convicted on a single racketeering conspiracy charge that included the same alleged predicate racketeering activities as the first indictment, undermining claims of partial success in the criminal prosecution.

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  • Gibson v. Konick

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware for plaintiff;
    for defendant: David Konick, pro se defendant.

    Case Number: 2022-1036-LWW

    Court ordered judicial dissolution of LLC formed to hold vacation property after the end of the parties' romantic relationship rendered carrying on the LLC's "business" impractical.

  • ECB USA, Inc. v. Savencia, S.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Legal Services | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen G. Harvey, Steve Harvey LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Joel S. Magolnick, John E. Kirkpatrick, Marko & Magolnick P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David W. Martson Jr., Jody C. Bariilare, Brian Morris, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Margot G. Bloom, Su Jin Kim, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Michael J. Abelson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 19-cv-731-GBW-CJB

    Court was not obligated to consider evidence of party asserting attorney-client privilege when ordering an evidentiary hearing where opposing party made a prima facie case for application of the crime-fraud exception.

  • In re TransPerfect Global, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy D. Eicher, Eicher Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Douglas D. Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jennifer C. Voss, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Wilmington, DE for respondent.

    Case Number: 9700-CM, 10449-CM

    Court overruled corporation's objections to custodian's legal fee petitions where court had already ruled on custodian's entitlement to fees and found no basis to support corporations' challenges to the reasonableness of the fees.

  • Elad v. Truist Bank

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Legal Services | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Elad, Claymont, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brittany M. Giusini, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lorin Huerta, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Helene Elizabeth Episcopo, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE; Chase N. Miller, McCabe Weisberg & Conway P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-1360-GBW

    Court dismissed complaint challenging state court foreclosure proceedings where defendants were entitled to absolute judicial or quasi-judicial immunity or were not acting under color of state law for purposes of a §1983 claim.

  • Katz v. Beebe Healthcare

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
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    Case Number: 22-625-WCB

    Court imposed financial sanctions on plaintiff's former counsel due to counsel's failure to provide discovery despite repeated assurances of production.