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Delaware Business Court Insider

Investors Sue Over Alleged Adviser Conflicts in $218M Tesla Acquisition

The class-action complaint, filed by Maxwell investor Davis Rodden, targeted the company's board and sought additional discloses about Barclays Capital Inc.'s current and prior engagements outside of the all-stock deal, which was announced last month.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

No Expert? No Problem for this Nonpracticing Entity in SF Patent Trial

Friedman, Suder & Cooke partner Jonathan Suder of Texas is feeling pretty good about San Francisco judges and juries after winning a $6.6 million verdict for OptiCurrent LLC.
4 minute read

The Recorder

No Expert? No Problem for NPE in ND-Cal Patent Trial

Friedman, Suder & Cooke partner Jonathan Suder of Texas is feeling pretty good about San Francisco judges and juries after winning a $6.6 million verdict for OptiCurrent LLC.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Tampa Lawyer Claims Collusion on BP Settlement to Get $3B in Fees

Steve Herman of Herman, Herman & Katz is accused of concocting an “eight-step plan" to boost legal fees and reduce BP's liability for Deepwater Horizon oil spill claims.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Can Bystanders Make Failure-to-Warn Claims in Toxic Tort Cases?

A failure-to-warn claim is a staple of products liability litigation. The basic premise is that a manufacturer or seller failed to warn a consumer about an unreasonable risk of foreseeable harm associated with the use of a product.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Fatal House Explosion in Elizabeth Leads to $19.2 Million Settlement

A lawsuit against a New Jersey gas utility over a gas explosion that destroyed an Elizabeth family's home, injured six, and killed two has ended in a $19.2 million settlement.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Thompson & Knight Posts Big Profit Gains in 2018

Profits per equity partner at Dallas-based Thompson & Knight jumped 15.9 percent in 2018 compared with 2017.
4 minute read

The Recorder

How to Get Around the Dreaded Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy

For lawyers dismayed by the utility's bankruptcy filing or facing their own instances where a defendant has become a debtor amid litigation, there are ways to prevent an automatic stay from derailing your clients' civil cases for years.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Oil Workers Flee Venezuela's Crisis for a Better Life

Over the years Nieves Ribullen has watched dozens of co-workers abandon poverty wages and dangerous working conditions at the rundown complex of refineries in Punto Fijo on Venezuela's Caribbean coast for jobs in far-flung places such as Kuwait, Angola and Chile.
6 minute read

International Edition

Norton Rose Looks to Further Capitalize on Mexico Energy Sector with Mexico City Expansion

The decentralization of Mexico's energy sector has led to a boom in investment, with law firms looking to capitalize.
2 minute read

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