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New York Law Journal

The 'Privity-Like' Requirement for Professional Negligence and Negligent Misrepresentation Claims

As discussed in this article, determining whether a privity-like relationship is proven, or at the motion to dismiss stage adequately pleaded, is intensively fact-specific.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ACC Files Amicus Brief to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege

The ACC is warning that the primary use test to determine attorney-client privilege would undercut frank and confident exchanges.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Daimler Sues Bergen County Over Auto Seizures

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Executive Compensation: Carried Interest and Terminated Employees

Those who have been—or will be—denied their due have strong claims to recover what they have been promised and what they earned. Employees can now breathe that sigh of relief.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Won't Halt California's Ban on Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products

R.J. Reynolds had sought an injunction from Justice Elena Kagan, and she referred it to the full court, pending its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Navigating Complex Commercial Disputes in Mediations: Ill-Equipped Parties

In this article, commercial mediator Myrna Barakat Friedman enlists several of her colleagues to discuss 'party-related' challenges they encounter as mediators and helpful insights on how to address them.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

First Department Revives Manhattan Law Firm's Legal-Fees Suit Alleging Fraud by Client

Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin's Supreme Court suit based on alleged fraudulent inducement committed by former client Dynamic Credit Partners and its principal, James Finkel, will go forward after the Appellate Division, First Department ruled that "summary judgment should not have been granted to defendants."
5 minute read

Law.com

How I Made Partner: 'Don't Dismiss Criticism,' Says Sara Alpert Lawson of Zuckerman Spaeder

"In some ways, making partner is like climbing Mount Everest: it's an upward journey that presents unique challenges for each person."
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

What's in a Name? Different Rules for Discovery of Surveillance, Security Videos 

In her recent opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Lynne A. Sitarski of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania distinguished between a surveillance video and a security video in the context of discovery in a personal injury case. Sitarski's opinion builds on existing case law to address when a defendant must disclose and produce a surveillance video or a security video to a personal injury plaintiff.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

6 Takeaways From the Biggest E-discovery Cases in 2022

While new forms of ESI have created new challenges in e-discovery, recent e-discovery decisions show that legal teams are granted less leeway than they used to get and are expected to master new platforms and sources of data.
8 minute read

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