By Philip E. Karmel and Peter R. Paden | January 4, 2007
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By Asher Hawkins | March 16, 2006
The net worth of a successor corporation is relevant to the issue of punitive damages, even though the alleged outrageous conduct was performed by a predecessor, a northeastern Pennsylvania judge h
By Pamela A. MacLean | December 30, 2005
For at least 30 years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on private lawyers for some corporate misconduct investigations and for protection of the assets of firms already
By Shanon D. Murray | November 22, 2006
Freshly emerged Oneida Ltd., which was originally felled by its pension liability, is striking back at the federal insurer for corporate pension plans.The Oneida, N.Y.-based flatware maker
By Stuart M. Feinblatt | April 20, 2006
You are defending a large American corporation, wholly owned by an even larger parent corporation based in Japan. You receive a comprehensive document production request defining the responding
By Mike McKee | April 24, 2006
A California appellate court has defied -- or at least stretched -- precedent by upholding a $28 million punitive damages award against a major tobacco company, an amount 33 times greater than the
By Beth Bar | June 13, 2006
A commercial lending company based in St. Louis has won the right to continue to call its business Omicron Capital, staving off an injunction and trademark challenge by a New York hedge fund of the
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | March 5, 2008
If Delta and Northwest airlines merge, the combined company is likely to have more work for in-house lawyers, not less, according to those familiar with the aviation industry."What I would s
By Beth Bar | December 26, 2006
A writer who claims to have penned a screen treatment in the 1970s based on author Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Identity" can continue to pursue his lawsuit against the creators of the 2002 hit
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | November 26, 2007
The discussion at Nov. 13's Association of Corporate Counsel-Georgia continuing legal education program seemed a bit one-sided, but understandably so since the panel of speakers was a group of defe
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