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October 24, 2003 |

Morgan Lewis Does Well on Corporate Counsel Lists

In a world where corporate scandals and the economic downturn have created general counsel turnover at an alarming rate -- 10 percent of general counsel at Fortune 250 companies left their posts last year -- law firm representations of major corporations have also been in flux.
4 minute read
July 13, 1999 |

Starting With A Clean Slate

The day after John Farmer Jr. was sworn in as NJ state attorney general, he received a letter from Cherry Hill plaintiffs' lawyer Clifford Van Syoc, who had two things to say to him: One, congratulations. Two, can we settle it? The "it" was the 5-year-old sexual harassment suit by Van Syoc's client -- former Deputy Attorney General Barbara Davis -- against the state and two former assistant attorneys general.
9 minute read
September 06, 2002 |

Make Arbitration An Anachronistic Relic

Arguments addressing the enforceability and permissible characteristics of employment arbitration plans continue to cost employers and employees substantial legal fees and result in significant delays in the resolution of their disputes. The focus of the struggle has been on whether the mandatory arbitration process is unconscionable. Unfortunately, this approach addresses only the final stage of dispute resolution.
4 minute read
December 10, 2008 |

Corporate and Securities Litigation

Sarah S. Gold, a partner at Proskauer Rose, and Richard L. Spinogatti, a senior counsel at the firm, review the recent decision in Staehr v. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., where the Second Circuit held that both the specificity and accessibility of public information about allegedly fraudulent conduct must be evaluated along a "sliding scale" to determine whether it will trigger a duty to inquire and the two year statute of limitations for a securities fraud claim.
10 minute read
March 06, 2008 |

Consider the Implications of Mandatory Advancement of Legal Fees

Mandatory, unconditional corporate indemnification and advancement of legal expenses can be an important inducement to attract valuable individuals to corporate service. But attorney Joseph M. McLaughlin writes that companies may find it worth pausing to consider the implications of mandatory advancement rights, as opposed to advancement grants in which the board retains some discretion to exercise business judgment on whether and how to condition the advancement of credit to corporate officials.
13 minute read
April 13, 2006 |

Directors' and Officers' Liability

Joseph M. McLaughlin, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, analyzes recent decisions which reaffirm the safe harbor against director liability for transactions where a majority of fully informed shareholders ratify the actions of even interested directors and which hold companies to bylaw provisions or agreements that grant broad advancement rights to directors and officers, regardless of how deeply the individuals seeking advancement have fallen out of favor with their company.
15 minute read
July 10, 2008 |

Roa v. Roa

Where plaintiff did not know, or could not have reasonably known, about the post-termination retaliatory conduct, his LAD claim is deemed to be timely where it was filed within two years of his discovery of the conduct.
5 minute read
October 03, 2011 |

In insurance fights, a healthy return for firm

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