Newsletters & Legal Updates

Business Reorganization and Restructuring

Clear Signal Beacons and Brightly Lined Channel Markers For Directors of Financially Troubled Delaware Corporations
Donna L. Culver, S. Mark Hurd
May 25, 2007

Commercial Law Counseling

Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
September 8, 2009

Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
July 14, 2009

Commercial Law Counseling - CLIENT ALERT
June 18, 2009

Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
February 1, 2008

Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
July 31, 2006

Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
August 12, 2005

Commercial Law Counseling Legislative Update
March 2005

Corporate and Business Litigation

Section 102(b)(7) Charter Provisions Remain Potent Weapons, William M. Lafferty, Jay N. Moffitt, Kenneth J. Nachbar, Leslie A. Polizoti
September 5, 2008

The Delaware Court of Chancery Concludes Directors' Action To Reschedule A Stockholder Vote Satisfies Blasius' Compelling Justification Standard, S. Mark Hurd, Jay N. Moffitt, A. Gilchrist Sparks III
August 22, 2007

Clear Signal Beacons and Brightly Lined Channel Markers For Directors of Financially Troubled Delaware Corporations, Donna L. Culver, S. Mark Hurd
May 25, 2007

Delaware Supreme Court Recognizes Expanded Scope of Direct Shareholder Claims, William M. Lafferty, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Jeffrey R. Wolters
April 20, 2007

Delaware Court of Chancery Disapproves Class Action Settlement Based on Concerns Over Timing of Presentation and Investigation of Claims, William M. Lafferty
December 20, 2006

Delaware Court of Chancery Prohibits a Financially Healthy Company From Agreeing to Sell Substantially All Of Its Assets Through a Bankruptcy Filing Without Approval of the Company's Common Stockholders Under 8 Del. C. ยง 271(a), William M. Lafferty, Gregory W. Werkheiser
December 12, 2006

Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Director Oversight Liability, Clarifies the Obligation to Act in Good Faith, Andrew M. Johnston, Angela Priest, Christine Dealy Haynes
November 13, 2006

The Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation - Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Court of Chancery Decision, S. Mark Hurd, A. Gilchrist Sparks III
June 13, 2006

Regal Entertainment Group v. Amaranth LLC, (Del. Ch. Apr. 12, 2006)
May 16, 2006

Newcastle Partners, L.P. v. Vesta Insurance Group, Inc.,
December 15, 2005

Delaware Corporate Law Counseling

Delaware Legislature Approves Important Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law
July 10, 2009

Delaware Supreme Court Recognizes Expanded Scope of Direct Shareholder Claims, William M. Lafferty, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Jeffrey R. Wolters
April 20, 2007

The Nuts and Bolts of Majority Voting, Frederick H. Alexander
December 2006

Delaware Supreme Court Addresses Director Oversight Liability, Clarifies the Obligation to Act in Good Faith, Andrew M. Johnston, Angela Priest, Christine Dealy Haynes
November 13, 2006

Amendments Adopted to the Delaware Corporation Law
July 26, 2006

Court of Chancery Refuses to Dismiss Contract Claim Based on Board Policy
December 28, 2005

Thoughts on Deal Protection in Light of Toys "R" Us, James D. Honaker, John F. Johnston
July 25, 2005

Delaware Court of Chancery Declines to Enjoin Locked-Up Merger, Frederick H. Alexander, Lewis S. Black
December 3, 2002

Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Locked-Up Merger Decision, Frederick H. Alexander, Lewis S. Black

Vice Chancellor Strine Proposes Changes in Going-Private Standards of Review, John F. Johnston, Eric Wilensky

Intellectual Property Litigation

Intellectual Property In Delaware, April 2009

Intellectual Property In Delaware, February 2008

Intellectual Property In Delaware, January 2008

Intellectual Property In Delaware, June 2007

Intellectual Property In Delaware, March 2007

Intellectual Property In Delaware, October 2006

Intellectual Property In Delaware, February 2006

Trusts, Estates and Tax

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