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Corporate Counsel

ERISA plaintiffs may seek compensation for plan misrepresentations

Cases of negligent misrepresentation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) are common and perhaps inevitable.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

3 tips for managing complex litigation

Bet-the-company litigation often entails multiple cases and investigations that in-house counsel must juggle simultaneously.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

7th Circuit draws distinction between ERISA case and Supreme Court's <em>Cigna</em> decision

In a concurring opinion in the 7th Circuits June 13 decision in Kenseth v. Dean Health Plan, Inc., Judge Daniel Manion distinguished it from the Supreme Courts Cigna Corp. v. Amara.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The changing class action litigation landscape

A large class action lawsuit is most corporations worst nightmare.
33 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Best practices for surviving bet-the-company litigation

Its every general counsels worst nightmare: lawsuits that threaten the very existence of the company.
14 minute read

International Edition

The Transfer Window: recent moves including Shearman, CMS and A&O

Shearman & Sterling has appointed Arnold & Porter white collar partner Claudius Sokenu to its litigation group, in a boost to the firm's anticorruption and securities enforcement practices. Sokenu, who will split his time between London, New York and Washington DC, is a former senior counsel in the Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement. In private practice, he has represented clients in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, and compliance matters before the SEC, the US Department of Justice and the UK Serious Fraud Office.
8 minute read

Inside Counsel

Man pays $150,000 of settlement in quarters

Revenge is a dish best served coldor with cold hard cash.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Deaf men sue Connecticut theater, claiming ADA violations

When Michael Fiorino, who is deaf, and three of his deaf friends headed over to the Bow Tie Cinemas in Connecticut on July 2, they expected to enjoy a movie.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Halliburton, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes face fracking suit

A new fracking-related suit is accusing three oilfield service companies of trying to quash their competition.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

The assumptions of the “unpredictability defense” are flawed

Last month, we discussed the so-called unpredictability defense, which posits that major pieces of corporate litigation and major corporate transactions are so distinctive and so unpredictable that the concepts of advance budgeting and legal project management (LPM) dont translate well in these contexts and that law firms cant properly anticipate...
7 minute read

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