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New Jersey Law Journal

Contract and Tort Law (Not Property) Are Required for Blockchain Property Transactions

It is more useful to regulate and adjudicate blockchain protocol property transactions using laws and precedent associated with agreements and acts, rather than using the law of physical things.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Lebanon Judge Enforces $2.8M Sanction for Discovery Delays

A Lebanon County judge is not backing down from his decision to hit a businessman with a $2.8 million default judgment as a sanction for numerous discovery delays.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Data on Trade Secrets Cases Can Point the Way for General Counsel

Claimants, primarily companies, won about 71 percent of trade secret cases, and a majority of the defendants are former employees, according to new research from legal analytics research company Lex Machina.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Appeals Court Reinstates Three-Way Liability for $500K in Legal Fees

The Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a trial court's granting of a motion notwithstanding the verdict, holding all three co-defendants jointly liable for more than $522,000 in legal fees owed to Epstein Becker & Green.
6 minute read

The Recorder

In Climate Change Case, Alsup Critiques Oil Companies' 'Trench Warfare' Approach

Although U.S. District Judge William Alsup appeared to lean the way of the six oil companies defendants on the merits at a hearing Thursday, he said he'll hold off ruling until he clears up jurisdictional issues that five of them have raised.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

The Outlook for Florida's Franchise Sector Is Bright

The franchise sector grew faster than the overall economy in 2017 and is projected to do so again this year, due in part to an improved momentum in GDP, a boost from recent tax reform and an increased favorable regulatory environment, according to the International Franchise Association's Franchise Business Economic Outlook for 2018.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Litigation Departments of the Year — Midsize Law Firms

Berger Singerman, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial and Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson had triumphal years in high-stakes lawsuits.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Unexpected Successor Liability Arising From an Asset Purchase

It is an article of faith that a company seeking to acquire a business without being saddled with its liabilities does so by acquiring assets: “Most jurisdictions, including Massachusetts, follow the traditional corporate law principle that the liabilities of a selling predecessor corporation are not imposed upon the successor corporation which purchases its assets ...,” as in Milliken & Co. v. Duro Textiles, 451 Mass. 547, 556, 887 N.E.2d 244, 254 (2008).
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Equifax Judge Warns Lawyers to Limit Record-Sealing Requests

U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash issued a 34-page protective order in the Equifax data breach multidistrict litigation but warned lawyers and their clients that they should treat documents filed in the case as "presumptively public" and use their "best efforts" to limit confidential filings.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-GC of McDonald's and Former Golf Pro Co-Author New Novel About Libel, Justice

The funny and folksy former McDonald's GC Shelby Yastrow, who can spin a tale in answer to any question, spoke with Corporate Counsel Tuesday as his new book went on sale.
6 minute read

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