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Posted on June 28, 2010 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Key Delaware Corporate and Commercial Cases from the First Five Months of 2010

Francis G.X. Pileggi and Kevin F. Brady, over the last five months or so, have highlighted on this blog approximately 100 cases on corporate and commercial law from the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery. Among those cases, we selected the following cases as the most notable... Continue Reading...

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Posted on March 23, 2010 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Attorney/Client Privilege Not Waived When Using Employer's Computer

The latest article for my regular ethics column in the current issue of The Bencher, the national publication of the American Inns of Court, on the topic of attorney/client privilege and waiver, is available here.... Continue Reading...

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Posted on December 30, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Key Corporate and Commercial Cases from Delaware for 2009

A review of key corporate and commercial cases from Delaware in 2009 follows in this post. Also, Francis Pileggi and Kevin Brady have written an article highlighting the "Top 5" key corporate and commercial cases for 2009 from Delaware's Chancery Court and Supreme Court . The article, available here, first... Continue Reading...

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Posted on December 1, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Penalties for Breaching Confidentiality Orders

For my regular ethics column in the current issue of The Bencher, the national publication of The American Inns of Court, I summarized a recent decision that addressed the consequences of an attorney not complying with an order requiring that certain documents in the litigation be maintained in confidence. Read... Continue Reading...

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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Chancery Court Describes Disclosure Obligations and Revlon Duties of Directors in Transaction

The Washington Legal Foundation published an article here last week that is an overview I did of the recent Delaware Chancery Court decision in Wayne County Employees’ Retirement System v. Corti, 2009 Del. Ch. LEXIS 126 (Del. Ch. 2009). The Court's opinion describes the duties of directors in the context... Continue Reading...

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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Key Delaware Corporate Decisions: Jan. to June 2009

Wilmington litigator Kevin Brady and I co-authored an article for the current issue of the ABA magazine called Business Law Today in which we highlighted the key Delaware corporate decisions from the first half of 2009. Here is the article.... Continue Reading...

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Posted on August 6, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Court Addresses Conflict Issue in Fee Agreement of Class Counsel

Sheldon Rennie, a corporate litigation partner who was instrumental in helping me start the Wilmington office of Fox Rothschild, co-authored my regular ethics column for the current issue of The Bencher, the national publication of the American Inns of Court. Read article here. The article summarized a recent decision of... Continue Reading...

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Posted on April 1, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

California Decision Backs Attorney's Refusal to Give Privileged Documents to Corporate Director

My regular ethics column for the national publication of the American Inns of Court, called The Bencher, in its March/April 2009 issue, presented an overview of a California decision that backed the lawyer for a corporation who refused to disclose to a corporate director certain documents that were deemed covered... Continue Reading...

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Posted on January 8, 2009 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Selected Key Corporate and Commercial Delaware Decisions in 2008

My annual review of selected key corporate and commercial Delaware decisions in 2008 is here. The Delaware Law Weekly published it in its current issue. (Due to its length, this week only Part I appeared and next week the second half of the article will be published.) My short reviews... Continue Reading...

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Posted on October 5, 2008 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

Ethics Column: New York Court Upholds Binding Arbitration Clause in Fee Agreement

The latest article for my regular ethics column that will be published in the upcoming issue of The Bencher, the national publication of The American Inns of Court, is here. It describes a recent New York decision that upheld a binding arbitration clause in a fee agreement between a law... Continue Reading...

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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Francis G.X. Pileggi

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