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New York Law Journal

Deep Woods Holdings LLC v. Pryor Cashman LLP

Sought Documents Not Protected by Attorney/ Client Privilege for Jointly Represented Clients
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Attorney Acting in Nonlegal Role Still Owes Fiduciary Duty, Court Rules

Even though a lawyer acted as an escrow agent — and not in the role of an attorney — in a business deal gone sour, Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals reversed a take-nothing judgment against him and his firm after finding they had a fiduciary duty to a client who paid $250,000 for a beer store that turned out to have $260,000 in tax liens looming over it.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Ex-GC in Battle With Lenox Over Access to Hard Drive

Lenox Corp., a maker of china, gifts and collectibles, is battling with its former general counsel over the right to examine his computer hard drive in connection with a suit accusing him of taking away confidential information when he left to work for a competitor.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Morrison Informatics Inc. v. Members 1st Fed. Credit Union, PICS Case No. 16-0714 (Pa. May 25, 2016) Saylor, C.J., Wecht, J, (concurring) (23 pages).

Superior Court properly allowed bankruptcy trustee to be substituted for company in action brought by company against credit union for alleged involvement in embezzlement after company had filed for bankruptcy, because Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a relation back in favor of a federal bankruptcy trustee was appropriate where the trustee acted in a diligent fashion to secure substitution and there was no demonstrable prejudice to credit union. Affirmed.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hutchins v. Palmer

'Storm Warnings' Should Have Prompted Inquiry More Than Four Years Before Suit
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Public Sector Pension Investment Board v. Saba Capital Management, L.P.

Renewal Granted, Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Granted Dismissal as Duplicative
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Superior Court Reverses Judicial Admission in Insurance Fight

A Philadelphia trial judge should not have taken a comment in a group of defendants' answer and new matter to their insurer's motion for judgment to be an admission that they lacked coverage for an accident, the Superior Court has ruled.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Thomson v. Zillow, Inc.

'Apex Witnesses' Not Exempt From Depositions, But From Giving Testimony; Motion Denied
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bagel Shop Ruled Not Liable for Worker Who Punched Patron

Justice Carol Edmead held that Nathan Bershadsky was not acting within his capacity as an employee of Tompkins Square Bagels when, taking exception to a vulgarity a customer directed at a waitress, he followed the patron outside of the shop and across the street and punched him in the jaw.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Rejects Firm's Motion to Dismiss Bank's Suit

The First Department rejected arguments by Tonino Sacco and Elias Fillas, partners in 29-lawyer Sacco & Fillas, that Credit Suisse did not have standing to sue for damages caused when a Sacco & Fillas lawyer, who later pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud, allegedly closed a transaction using forged documents, and stole a portion of the loan proceeds.
8 minute read

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