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Corporate Counsel

Labor & Employment Digest: April 2014

In a practice area with as much individuality as labor and employment law, the voices of law firms inject the kind of color, insight and expertise that provide inside counsel and other legal professionals with a cornerstone of true understanding.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The courage of lions and turtles

There is no question that truly great lawyers must have courage, including this kind of courage, the Courage of Lions. Sadly, most lawyers lack all courage.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Is the frivolous M&A litigation party winding down?

When a public company announces that it is being acquired, no one is surprised anymore when suits are filed against that company's directors. Whether the price is good or great doesn't seem to matter.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Lack of legislation and a surplus of case law are changing class action lawsuits

Defendants need to keep an eye on developments coming from individual cases and state legal changes to properly defend themselves from the risk of class action lawsuits.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

E-discovery and the FRCP: What will the changes mean?

Legal teams will need to continue to build their strategies to proactively account for not only the possibility of procedure change, but to be flexible in the face of growing and divergent volumes of information.
7 minute read

Inside Counsel

Credit Suisse reaches settlement with FHFA

With this news, the Swiss financial company will join the virtual whos-who of big banks that have agreed to shell out in response to government pressure provoked by mortgage issues.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

It’s time for litigation lawyers to innovate with Axcelerate5

Todays law firms need to adopt innovative ways of dealing with processes in order to keep up with the ever-changing environment and keep clients coming back.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

SCOTUS tackles when a statement of opinion is actionable under the 1933 Act

Companies, their officers and directors, and their underwriters and auditors potentially face greater exposure in federal securities actions, including class actions, brought under the 1933 Act.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Breaches of exclusivity obligations can leave advertisers with little recourse

SAG-AFTRA and the industry should create a streamlined dispute resolution process for these claims that could mirror the one for pension and health allocation claims available through the Industry-Union Standing Committee.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Analyzing direct evidence: When an avalanche is actually a snow flurry

Quantifying how far events strayed from what was expected and/or acceptable by calculating the standard deviation of actual event outcomes gives you hard evidence of how big or small the snowfall really was.
10 minute read

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