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Delaware Business Court Insider

Argument Among Shareholders Rolls on With Appeal of AMC Settlement

It's a unique situation for Delaware's high court, with attorneys from the plaintiffs' bar and those who represent the corporate side sitting at the same table, united in wanting to uphold a settlement that a subset of the class of AMC shareholders wants to have overturned.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Faegre Drinker Adds Phila. Partners From Ballard Spahr, Manko Gold

Timothy Katsiff is a commercial litigator, while Thomas Duncan focuses on transactional work in the environmental sphere.
3 minute read

International Edition

Mishcon de Reya Files £250M Group Action Against Uber

The claimants are suing Uber for losses incurred allegedly as a result of unlawful activities by the company in the London taxi market.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

International Litigation, Foreign States and Tort Liability for Gun Manufacturers

Though constitutional questions were not squarely before the First Circuit, they unquestionably animate both the statutory framework and jurisprudence surrounding this burgeoning area of litigation.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Clarifies New York's Approach to 'Successor Jurisdiction'

The Court of Appeals recently took up successor jurisdiction for the first time. In response to a question certified to it by the Second Circuit, the court held that an entity that acquires all of another entity's liabilities and assets also inherits the selling entity's jurisdictional status.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Despite Tech Vendor's 'Admitted Negligence,' Ex-FisherBroyles Client May Struggle to Recover Damages

A Georgia appellate court earlier this month affirmed a ruling dismissing tech vendor CPA Global Support from a suit over a missed foreign patent application deadline. Damages could exceed $100 million, according to expert witness testimony.
6 minute read

Law.com

Sui Generis: Negotiate Like You Mean It

What happens when you talk about various negotiation events, strategies, desired outcomes and potentially low key disasters? How should these items should be discussed and what positions are worth taking and which aren't?
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Ex-Big Law Corporate Defenders Explain Why They Now Help Fund the Opposite Side of the 'V'

"The skillsets we were developing as associates were largely transferable," said Evan Meyerson, a former Paul Weiss associate who moved to Burford Capital. "A big part of litigation strategy is thinking about what the other side thinks about your case and the job at Burford is to think through these investments as a devil's advocate."
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Give Contract Amendments Their Own Integration-Plus Clauses

The incorporation of an integration clause into an amendment merely preserves the original integration clause and precludes evidence of oral or written representations that occurred prior to or contemporaneous with the execution of the original contract. The mere incorporation of the original integration clause into an amendment does not cover the time period between the execution of the original contract and the amendment.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Longtime Mary Kay Legal Chief Julia Simon Joins Top Texas Litigation Firm

"If I wanted to stay in-house, I would have stayed at Mary Kay. What I wanted was a different challenge," retired Mary Kay legal chief Julia Simon told Law.com on her return to private practice in April. "The idea of bringing my broad knowledge and skills back to private practice and to a top tier trial firm was compelling."
4 minute read

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