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Dealing With Disputes Over the Reasonableness of Fees at the Advancement Stage

March 22, 2012 14:02

Authored by Peter B. Ladig This article was originally published in the Delaware Business Court Insider | March 21, 2012 Like many aspects of Delaware corporate law, the law of a corporate director or officer's entitlement to advancement is not black and white, but it is probably one of the more...

Trenton Picks New Police Director

March 22, 2012 12:53

  As reported by nj.com, a former state trooper and veteran of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office has been selected by Mayor Tony Mack to head Trenton’s police department, the city’s legal counsel confirmed. Ralph Rivera, Jr. rose to the rank of major during his 27 years...

SXSW Lesson 2: Big Copyright Doesn’t Get the Web

March 21, 2012 20:14

Big copyright holders, IE: RIAA and the MPAA, don't truly understand the Web or the tech community. The surprise is that they aren't even trying.In yesterday’s SXSW Lesson regarding what the Web didn’t learn from SOPA and PIPA, I made a promise to address how the major copyright...

Court Leaves it to Stockholders to Decide on El Paso Merger Transaction

March 21, 2012 17:01

Authored by Lewis H. Lazarus This article was originally published in the Delaware Business Court Insider | March 14, 2012 Chancellor Leo E. Strine Jr. has long had a high regard for the ability of stockholders to decide for themselves what is in their own best interests. A corollary of that is...

Road Show

March 20, 2012 19:44

In my recent blog entry, 998 Update: Avoiding the Wreckage, I mentioned that the CCP 998 decisions keep on coming.  Little did I know that even more were on the way.  Each new decision covers a wrinkle that could affect the outcome of a case in dramatic ways.  And so as...