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Delaware Excellence Attorney of the Year Q&A'Michael Barlow, Quinn Emmanuel
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (118+ words) Excellence has always required the same things: preparation, judgment, and the ability to perform when it matters most. The lawyers who excel today are the ones who have been in c. .. Delaware Excellence Attorney of the Year Q&A'Michael Barlow, Quinn…...
Reining in Transactional Exclusions: Delaware Courts Narrow D&O Coverage Bars and Raise the Burden on Insurers
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (182+ words) Recent Delaware decisions reinforce a trend that policyholders and coverage practitioners have increasingly sensed over the last several years: courts are becoming less receptive to insurer efforts to apply transaction-related exclusions beyond their text and are requiring insurers to carry…...
Shooting Outside North Carolina Courthouse Leaves Fox Rothschild Attorneys With 'Non-Life-Threatening' Wounds
2+ week, 1+ day ago (215+ words) The Am Law 100 Rankings The suspect made her first court appearance Tuesday morning in Raleigh after being charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Two Fox Rothschild attorneys are expected to recover after being transported to a hospital with…...
Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Challenge to Advance Notice Bylaw
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (274+ words) The appeal involved two cases, both raising the same issue: whether shareholders can challenge advance notice bylaws they say are defensive and entrenching in the Court of Chancery if those shareholders don't intend to nominate a director and haven't shown…...
Delaware Supreme Court Confirms Facial Constitutionality of Fiduciary Safe Harbors in DGCL Overhaul
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (202+ words) Delaware courts have long refused to second-guess corporate management's decision-making when it is disinterested, but applied close scrutiny when management operates in the presence of a conflict of interest. As a result, much of Delaware case law has centered around…...