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Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Latham Duo Clears Clients Caught in Weinstein Scandal

'While money is always at stake in a litigation, here our clients' reputations are at stake,' said Latham partners Laura Washington and Marvin Putnam.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Why Your Board Should Consider Using a Smaller Law Firm

With a smaller law firm, experienced lawyers are the norm, rather than the associates who typically handle the day-to-day business for large law firms. The attention given to the client is second to none.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Derivative Lawsuit in Delaware Targets Zuckerberg, Facebook Brass Over Privacy Breaches

The 193-page filing said that Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel and three other board members had presided over "one of the worst examples of privacy abuse in the age of social media" and committed "pervasive breaches" of their fiduciary duties in the name of short-term profits.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Derivative Lawsuit Targets Zuckerberg, Facebook Brass Over Privacy Breaches

The 193-page filing said that Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel and three other board members had presided over "one of the worst examples of privacy abuse in the age of social media" and committed "pervasive breaches" of their fiduciary duties in the name of short-term profits.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Blowing the Whistle: A Primer on the False Claims Act (Part 1)

This article is the first in a series of four primers on the key legal regimes incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers who report fraud: the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower programs
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

'Substantive Economic Negotiations'—The Witching Hour for 'MFW' Conditions

Most readers of this publication will likely be familiar with the MFW conditions announced by the Delaware Supreme Court in 2014, and which, when present, alter the standard of review of transactions between a Delaware corporation and a controller from the traditional—and onerous—entire fairness standard of review to the application of the business judgment rule.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Falling in Line With China's Updated Anti-Corruption Regulations 

After leaving its anti-bribery laws untouched for more than two decades, the People's Republic of China has recently begun to crack down on corporate…
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Applying Technology to Legal Matters to Support the Goals of In-House Counsel

Today's legal technology landscape might best be described like as an engineer might consider a complex math equation. It's fun, expansive, intricate and overwhelming all at the same time. Certainly, it has fundamentally changed how we view risk management and altered the way most legal professionals work.
9 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Court Grants 'Mulligan' to Plaintiffs in Lawsuit Accusing KPMG of Negligent Misrepresentation

Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn on Thursday allowed Otto Candies and other plaintiffs to file a new complaint despite their failure to comply with a court rule governing amended complaints in the case, which accuses KPMG of failing to detect a massive financial fraud by Citigroup Inc. and a KPMG client in Latin America.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Delaware Court Grants 'Mulligan' to Plaintiffs in Lawsuit Accusing KPMG of Negligent Misrepresentation

Vice Chancellor Morgan T. Zurn on Thursday allowed Otto Candies and other plaintiffs to file a new complaint despite their failure to comply with a court rule governing amended complaints in the case, which accuses KPMG of failing to detect a massive financial fraud by Citigroup Inc. and a KPMG client in Latin America.
4 minute read

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