The current issue of Bankruptcy Court Decisions, Weekly News and Comment has a cover story on lawyer blogs and mentions my blog and my friend Steve Jakubowski’s Bankruptcy Litigation Blog. download file.
January 2006
E-Discovery and Enron Emails
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Commentary
Robert Ambrogi’s blog notes that several companies are using Enron emails as samples to demonstrate their e-discovery services. They apparently highlight methods to manage a high-volume of emails and how to find the proverbial “smoking gun”.
Delaware Supreme Court’s Review of Disney Decision
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Delaware Supreme Court Updates
As referred to recently, The Conglomerate Blog will have an online forum regarding the Jan. 25 oral argument at the Delaware Supreme Court in the appeal of the Disney case. Larry Ribstein announces today at his Ideoblog that he will prepare an “opinion” based on what he predicts the Delaware Supreme Court will decide, just…
Disney Oral Argument
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Delaware Supreme Court Updates
The Conglomerate blog reports that oral argument in the Disney case is set for January 25 in the Delaware Supreme Court. As he did with the trial court decision by Chancellor Chandler, Gordon Smith will be organizing on his Conglomerate blog an online forum or symposium with other experts, regarding the oral argument, which will…
Decision in Favor of State Control Over Lawyers
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Commentary
Last month, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an FTC effort to control lawyers, and rendered a decision that favors the rights of individual states to regulate lawyers. As reported by the ABA here, the court held that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was never intended by Congress to apply to lawyers, and as…
Proxy Claim Averted By Correction
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Other Court Decisions
In Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. v. Liberation Investments, L.P., et al., download file, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied as moot a motion for injunctive relief concerning a proxy statement that was alleged to be misleading and materially false. At a TRO hearing, the plaintiff told the court…
SEC and Executive Compensation
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Commentary
Prof. Ribstein posts here about the recent SEC proposals on executive compensation, and he also links to his prior writings on the topic.
Court Determines Arbitrability Despite AAA Rules
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Court of Chancery Updates
In one of the first Chancery Court published opinions of 2006, Vice Chancellor Leo Strine provided a clearly defined framework to analyze the arbitrability of a dispute arguably subject to an arbitration clause but which clause has an “out” for a party seeking injunctive relief. In Willie Gary LLC v. James & Jackson LLC,…
New Business Law Blog
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Commentary
Let’s give a warm welcome to the blogosphere to Truth on the Market, a new blog by several law professors who will write about business law, economics, securities, antitrust, and related areas. We look forward to their posts.
Ethical Conflicts Representing Shareholder and Corporation
By Francis Pileggi on
Posted in Commentary
For my regular ethics column in the current issue of The Bencher, the national publication of the American Inns of Court, I summarized a Florida appellate court decision that discussed the issues of legal ethics involved in the same lawyer representing a majority shareholder and the corporation. In allowing the same lawyer to represent…