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Corporate Counsel

Admission Scandal Puts Spotlight on University Compliance Programs

The college cheating scandal hit close to home for us for two reasons. First, the people involved: Aunt Becky (Lori Loughlin), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), college athletic officials. It turns out they can make bad choices like anyone else.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Shout-Out: $26M Win for Clare Locke in Defamation Suit

Husband and wife litigators Tom Clare and Libby Locke—founders of Kirkland & Ellis spin-off boutique Clare Locke—led a team in winning a $26 million defamation verdict against Puma Biotechnology and its CEO.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC Allowed to Pursue Fraud Claims Against Rio Tinto, Former Executives

A federal judge in Manhattan has allowed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to proceed with a lawsuit accusing the multinational mining firm Rio Tinto and two former executives of fraud in connection with its failed investment in a Mozambique coal project.
4 minute read

International Edition

Global Firms Back Away from Eastern Europe

Law firms are rethinking their approach to the former Soviet Bloc, once a boom region in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
8 minute read

International Edition

Global Firms Rethink Their Eastern Europe Strategy

Law firms are reassessing their approach to the former Soviet Bloc, once a boom region in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
7 minute read

Law.com

Global Firms Back Away from Eastern Europe

Law firms are rethinking their approach to the former Soviet Bloc, once a boom region in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Experts Say When General Counsel Leaves Abruptly, Board Has Duty to Ask Why

Corporate governance experts say when a company's general counsel departs—especially when the company does not know the reason for the departure—it should set off little alarm bells for the board of directors.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Preservation: You Can't Produce What You Don't Have

The process of litigation actually begins well before a suit is ever filed. That's why it is so important to understand the rules of preservation as a part of the larger e-discovery picture.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Employer's Liability for Harassment by Non-Employees

The district court held that an employer could be held liable for its failure to investigate and remediate its employee's complaint of harassment by a non-employee, and it imposed a standard similar to that which exists under New Jersey law.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Investment Firm Says $25M AOL Appraisal Suit Belongs in Delaware

The suit, filed by Verition Partners Master Fund, accuses Chicago-based litigation services firm Coherent Economics of failing to disclose disparaging remarks that expert witness W. Bradford Cornell made about the firm's appraisal claims in a suit over the fair value of AOL Inc. after it was acquired by telecommunications giant Verizon in a $4.4 billion deal in June 2015.
4 minute read

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