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Corporate Counsel

Think International Risk Is Complicated? Just Wait

As global anticorruption enforcement becomes a reality, companies face a mind-numbing set of complications.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Appellate Judge Discovers Brave New World

Laptops, smartphones, tablets and other gadgets have forever changed the rules of engagement.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

A Cautionary Tale of Privilege Via Email

An executive's emails to his personal lawyer weren't protected by attorney-client privilege because of company policy on access to its network servers.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Post-Merger Control of Attorney-Client Privilege

In his Corporate Litigation column, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Joseph M. McLaughlin reviews a Delaware Court of Chancery opinion adopting a bright-line rule that any attorney-client privilege attached to pre-merger communications pass to the acquirer in the merger unless the merger agreement provides otherwise, rejecting the New York approach to post-merger privilege.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Hints of Change in China

By | December 11, 2013
A recent announcement shows the Chinese government feels the need to at least pay lip service to due process in criminal cases.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Give Prosecutors Win in Kansas Death Case

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that prosecutors may use evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation against a capital defendant to rebut the defendant's own psychiatric testimony.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Evaluating Confidential Informant Allegations Under 'Tellabs'

In their Corporate and Securities Litigation column, Sarah S. Gold and Richard L. Spinogatti of Proskauer Rose write: Since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 'Tellabs', federal courts have wrestled with its impact on the use of confidential informant allegations in federal securities complaints. There appears to be widely divergent views on this subject, partly mitigated by the differing facts of the cases in which the issue is raised.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Gun Talk in School Isn't Terroristic Threat

A teen who allegedly talked about accessing guns in school, causing the school to increase security and attendance to temporarily drop, may not be found delinquent because the statement itself was not a hazardous or physically offensive condition that created a risk of public inconvenience, the state Superior Court has ruled.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Ballard, PICS Case No. 13-3207 (Pa. Nov. 21, 2013) Castille, J.; Saylor, J., and Todd, J., concurring (56 pages).

By | December 10, 2013
Capital Murder • Penalty Phase Hearing • Victim Impact Evidence • Admissibility • Aggravating & Mitigating Circumstances • Weight
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Defense Seeks Information on U.S. Probe Into Alleged Threats

Attorneys for a convicted military contractor are locked in a battle with federal prosecutors over the release of information the government obtained during an eight-month probe into whether the defendant threatened the judge, prosecutors and a defense attorney.
6 minute read

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