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Delaware Business Court Insider

WeWork Parent's Management Can't Block Directors From Discovery, Bouchard Rules in First-Impression Case

Chancellor Andre Bouchard ruled that members of a special committee formed from The We Company's board of directors are entitled to discovery of privileged documents as a matter of Delaware corporate law.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

IT Departments COVID-19 Boost Won't Crowd Out Legal Tech Funding

Advocating for a legal tech budget during a pandemic can be a tough sell. But as IT departments continue to grapple with challenges around remote working or the implementation of automated technologies, there may be an opportunity for law departments to leverage those dollars to their advantage.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court of Chancery's Post-'Olenik' Interpretation of the 'Ab Initio' Requirement

Since Olenik, each of the three published Court of Chancery opinions substantively addressing whether transacting parties met the ab initio requirement held that the parties failed. This article elucidates the contours of the ab initio requirement by mining fact-based guideposts from those three cases.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

America's CEOs Stated A New Goal. Now Law Firms See Opportunities in Getting Them There

Firms such Wachtell, Paul Weiss, Freshfields and Winston & Strawn are guiding clients toward ESG goals.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Take the Lead: Workplace Issues Affecting You Now

I think that vacations and time off are important. Employees need to disconnect and clear their head.
6 minute read

International Edition

Mining Giant Appoints Weil As Legal Adviser

The U.S. firm has been appointed to 'provide legal advice to the board', the company said.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

With Anticipated Cyberattacks, Protecting Data Breach Reports From Discovery

Cyber experts anticipate that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting vulnerabilities arising from organizations' need to rollout a remote work environment overnight, many organizations' systems already have been compromised and that those incidents will surface during the fourth quarter of 2020.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Validating Defective Corporate Acts Under DGCL Sections 204 and 205

In their corporate litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern discuss the recent decision in 'Applied Energetics,' which explores the remedies of ratification and validation in Sections 204 and 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

A Danger to America's Workers and Consumers

Blanket immunity for corporations will cost lives and prolong the pandemic because bad actors would have a free pass without concern for liability.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Deadline Extended to September 2: The American Lawyer's Best Corporate Department Awards

Some of law firms' best innovations over the past several decades have come from their corporate lawyering. We will honor the big impact these practices have had in the last two years.
1 minute read

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