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Daily Business Review

Miami Developer Sues Law Firm, Shareholder Over Failed Real Estate Project

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney faces a $15 million suit from developer Avra Jain over a failed investment in Doral.
24 minute read

Inside Counsel

Forced Arbitration: Why Privatization of the Justice System Is Taking Away Consumer Rights

Thanks to contracts riddled with forced arbitration clauses, disputes are being pushed out of the court system and leaving consumers in the lurch when…
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Emails Went to 'Electronic Ether,' Not New Jersey, Judge Rules

A federal judge has declined to exercise jurisdiction over a contract dispute where messages that went "into the electronic ether" were about the only thing connecting the defendant with New Jersey.
9 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court Won't Weigh Bid to Claw Back Fees While Third Circuit Mulls Venue for Appeal

A federal judge in Delaware on Tuesday delayed making any decision on a sanctions motion alleging Samsung had filed a "duplicative" suit, saying it would be "inappropriate and inefficient" to rule on the issue until a federal appeals court could review the case.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Starr Gern Malpractice Suit

Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin is not liable for malpractice in a case where an ex-client claimed it failed to provide material information obtained in discovery and misrepresented the underlying claim as meritless, says a New Jersey appeals court.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Decides Case Closely Watched by Real Estate Industry

In their New York Court of Appeals Roundup, Lynn K. Neuner and William T. Russell Jr. discuss 'Princes Point v. Muss Development', in which the Court of Appeals ruled that the filing of a suit to rescind or reform a contact did not under the circumstances constitute an anticipatory breach of that contract.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Sharp Electronics Appeals After Judge Nixes Bid to Block Arbitration Gag Order

Sharp Electronics appealed the order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg within hours.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Attorneys Win $3.1 Million Verdict in Construction Defect Suit

The attorneys say the victory was nearly a decade in the making, but well worth the fight.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Lost Profits Award for Breach of a License Agreement Cannot Rely on Comparison Between Recent Entrant and Market Behemoth

In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss recent opinions that illustrate the difficulties in obtaining a lost profits award when premised on conjectural comparisons between the prevailing party and an established, if not leading presence in the relevant market.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Doctor Ordered to Pay $65K for Breach of Recruitment and Employment Agreements

On Aug. 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment by the District Court for the Western District of Arkansas to Johnson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) in its breach of contract suit against its former employee, Dr. Robert Halterman.
10 minute read

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