Publications

Jeffrey R. Wolters, Delaware Corporation Law and Practice, Bender Publishing

Business Reorganization and Restructuring

Gregory W. Werkheiser, Intellectually Bankrupt? Five Potential Pitfalls When Intellectual Property Interests Meet Bankruptcy Proceedings, Delaware Lawyer 8 (Winter 2008/2009)

Robert J. Dehney, Curtis Miller, Robert Dehney and Curtis Miller Author Article for Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law

Curtis Miller, Covering Their Tails—Again: Court Rejects Objection to Officer Advancement Claim under 11 U.S.C. §502(e)(1)(B)1, ABI Journal, p. 38 (February 2008)

Robert J. Dehney, Curtis Miller, Covering Your Tail: Court Approves Advancement of Legal Fees to Directors and Officers under §363, ABI Journal, Vol. XXVI, No. 5, p. 26 (June 2007)

Robert J. Dehney, Public Sector Restructurings, Recoveries and Insolvencies: A Trend for the Future?, Developmental Specialists, Inc. CLE Program (February 2006)

Robert J. Dehney, Curtis Miller, Daniel B. Butz, Restructuring Under Delaware Law: An Attractive Alternative, Financier Worldwide -- Global Restructuring Review 2005, at 47-48 (Sept. 2005)

Robert J. Dehney, Curtis Miller, Daniel B. Butz, The Importance of Good Corporate Form: Preventing the Involuntary Distribution of Your Assets to Creditors of a Bankruptcy Affiliate or Subsidiary, The Journal of Private Equity (Spring 2005)

Commercial Law Counseling

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2009 Supplement to Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities, 2009 Annual Meeting of ABA, Section of Business Law

Louis G. Hering, Angela Priest, 2009 Amendments to Delaware’s General Corporation Law and Alternative Entity Statutes, BNA's Corporate Counseling Weekly, Vol. 24, No. 30 (August 5, 2009)

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2009 Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities, 2009 Annual Meeting of ABA, Section of Business Law

Louis G. Hering, Angela Priest, Analysis of 2008 Amendments to the Delaware Corporation and Alternative Entities Code, BNA’s Corporate Counsel Weekly (Sept. 17, 2008)

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2008 Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities (February 1, 2008), Presented at 2008 ABA Annual Meeting, Section of Business Law

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2007 Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities (May 29, 2007), Presented at 2007 ABA Annual Meeting, Section of Business Law

Houghton, Michael, Walter Tuthill, Josiah Osibodu, Valerie Jundt, and Mark Paolillo, Unclaimed Property, BNA Corporate Practice Series No. 74-2nd (2006)

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2006 Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities (June 16, 2006), Presented at 2006 ABA Annual Meeting, Section of Business Law

Louis G. Hering, Stanford L. Stevenson, III and David A. Harris, Limited Liability Companies: Legal Assets of Organization, Operation and Dissolution, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., C.P.S. 67-2nd. (2006)

David A. Harris, Louis G. Hering, 2005 Cumulative Survey of Delaware Case Law Relating to Alternative Entities (July 31, 2005), Presented at 2005 ABA Annual Meeting, Section of Business Law

David A. Harris, Recent Case Law Developments Relating to Delaware's Alternative Entities, Delaware Law Review, Vol. 7, No 2 (2004)

David Ley Hamilton, Michael Houghton, New Filings Under Revised Article 9– A Delaware Perspective, Business Law Today, March/April 2002, at 57

Corporate and Business Litigation

Stephen P. Lamb & John P. DiTomo, Federalization vs. Federalism In Corporation Law, Practising Law Institute Corporate Governance 2010

A. Gilchrist Sparks III, Helen Bowers, After Twenty-Two Years, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law Continues to Give Hostile Bidders a Meaningful Opportunity for Success, 65 Bus. Law. 761 (2010)

William M. Lafferty, John P. DiTomo, Defining The Proper Subject Matter For A Bylaw Under Delaware Law, Practising Law Institute Corporate Governance 2099, 1774 PLI/Corp 337

William M. Lafferty, Eric Wilensky, John P. DiTomo, Material Adverse Effects And Reasonable Best Efforts: The Hexion/Huntsman Opinion, (2008)

Megan Ward Cascio, Digest of 2007 Delaware Corporate Litigation Trends

William M. Lafferty, Jay N. Moffitt, Susan Wood Waesco, Delaware Court of Chancery Certifies Defendant Noteholder Class and Appoints Hedge Fund as Class Representative

William M. Lafferty, Eric Wilensky, Delaware Court of Chancery Suggests that Federal Securities Regulation do not Trump State Annual Meeting Law

S. Mark Hurd, Books and Records Demands and Litigation: Recent Trends and Their Implications for Corporate Governance, 9 Del. Law Rev. 1 (2006)

John P. DiTomo, Does New Jersey's Solution to its Education Crisis Run Afoul of the United States Constitution?, 6 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 328

William M. Lafferty, Pure Resources: The Latest Word from the Delaware Courts on the Standard of Review Applicable to a Tender Offer by a Controlling Stockholder, Securities Regulations & Law Reporter, Vol. 35, no. 2 (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.), and Mergers & Acquisitions Law Reporter, Vol. 6, No. 2 (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., January 13, 2003)

Jon E. Abramczyk, James D. Honaker, Going-Private "Dilemma"? --Not In Delaware, 58 Bus. Law. 1351 (2003)

Michael Houghton, William M. Lafferty, Andrew H. Lippstone, The Expansion of the Delaware Court of Chancery's Jurisdiction to Adjudicate or Mediate Certain "Technology Disputes" -- An Evolution, Not a Revolution, ABA Network: The Newsletter of the Business Law Section, Committee on Business and Corporate Litigation, Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Spring 2003)

Jon E. Abramczyk, Thomas W. Briggs Jr., Delaware Special Committees – Worth Another Look, 12 Securities News 25 (American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Fall 2002)

S. Mark Hurd, Indemnification of Directors and Officers Under Delaware Law, The Review of Commodities & Securities Regulation, Vol. 35, No. 21, 262-69 (McGraw Hill Companies, 2002)

Delaware Corporate Law Counseling

Jeffrey R. Wolters, Mergers, Corporate Attorney's Practice Guide, LexisNexis

Jeffrey R. Wolters, The State of M&A Deals in 2010, M&A Negoation Series

Andrew M. Johnston, Amy L. Simmerman, Recent Delaware Law Developments in Advancement and Indemnification: An Analytical Guide, 6 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 81-126 (2009)

Angela Priest, A Pocket Primer on Delaware Corporate Law, ABA YLD 101 Practice Series (2009)

James D. Honaker, Analysis of 2009 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (2009)

Frederick H. Alexander, Corporate Directors Should Prepare for Rise in Unsolicited Takeover Offers, The Conference Board Governance, No. 309 (June 2009)

Eric Wilensky, Angela Priest, Corporate Governance Developments in a Recessionary Environment, Securities Regulation & Law Report, Vol. 41, No. 20 (May 18, 2009)

Eric Wilensky, Angela Priest, 2007 Developments in Delaware Corporation Law, Securities Regulation & Law Report, Vol. 40, No. 19 (May 12, 2008)

Frederick H. Alexander, An Optimal Mix of Clarity and Flexibility, Delaware Lawyer, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2008

Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, Stockholders in Corporate Governance: Power to the Franchise or the Fiduciaries?: An Analysis of the Limits On Stockholder Activist Bylaws, 33 Del. J. Corp. L. 3 (2008)

Eric Wilensky, Angela Priest, 2006 Developments In Delaware Corporation Law On Directors: Good Faith, Duties In Zone Of Insolvency, And Structuring Deals, 39 Securities Regulation & Law Report 476 (Mar. 26, 2007)

Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, The Nuts and Bolts of Majority Voting, Corporation, Aspen Publishers, August 2006 (revised December 2006)

A. Gilchrist Sparks III, A Comment Upon Unocal at 20, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 31, No. 3, p. 887-889, 2006

Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, Amendments Adopted to the Delaware Corporation Law, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (July 26, 2006)

A. Gilchrist Sparks III, Corporate Democracy - What It Is, What It Isn't, and What It Should Be, Presentation at Tulane University, 18th Annual Law Institute, New Orleans, LA (February 2006)

James D. Honaker, John F. Johnston, Toys "R" Us And The Revlon Test, INSIGHTS, The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor (Aspen Law & Business, 2006)

James D. Honaker, John F. Johnston, A New Approach To Deal Protection In Delaware, INSIGHTS, The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor (Aspen Law & Business, 2005)

David A. Drexler, Lewis S. Black Jr., A. Gilchrist Sparks III, Delaware Corporation Law and Practice, Matthew Bender (1987-2005)

S. Mark Hurd, Andrew M. Johnston, Special Committees of the Board, Corporate Governance: Law & Practice (Lexis Nexis 2004)

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III, Andrew H. Lippstone, Changes in the Corporate Law After Enron: Emerging Director Liability Issues, Presentation at Tulane University, 15th Corporate Law Institute, New Orleans, LA (March 13-14, 2003).

Eric Wilensky, A Contractarian Critique of the Theory of Auto-Limitation: The Fundamental Law of International Relations, 150 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2011 (2002)

S. Mark Hurd, Andrew M. Johnston, Special Committees of Independent Directors, Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 79 (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 2002)

A. Gilchrist Sparks III, Special Committees and the Role of Outside Directors, Presentation at the 15th Annual M & A Lawyer Conference, New York, NY (February 2, 1998)

Intellectual Property Litigation

Karen Jacobs Louden, Legitimate Businesses Get Caught in the Web: Does the Anticybersquatting Protection Act Go Too Far?, Delaware Law Review, Vol. 10:1 (2008)

Mary B. Graham, Presentation on Forum Selection: Delaware, Symposium: Ethical Issues In Patent Law; The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, March 29, 2007

Mary B. Graham, Building A House: The IP Case That Will Sell, a chapter in IP Legal Strategies, part of the series INSIDE THE MINDS: IP LEGAL SERIES (Aspatore Books, Spring 2007)

Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons, Jack B. Blumenfeld, Mary B. Graham and Leslie A. Polizoti, Explaining Venue Choice and Litigant Preferences: Solving the Delaware Mystery, ECONOMIC DAMAGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A HANDS-ON GUIDE TO LITIGATION 67-81 (Daniel Slottje ed., John Wiley & Sons 2006)

Donald F. Parsons, Jr., Jack B. Blumenfeld, Mary B. Graham & Leslie A. Polizoti, Solving the Mystery of Patentees' 'Collective Enthusiasm' for Delaware, Delaware Law Review, Vol 7:2 (2005)

Karen Jacobs Louden & Tiffany Fonseca, Does the Federal Trademark Dilution Act Provide A Right Without A Remedy?, Delaware Law Review, Vol. 7:1 (2004)

Trusts, Estates and Tax

Todd A. Flubacher, Thomas R. Pulsifer, Dynasty Trusts, Thompson/RIA, 2007

Speakers: Thomas R. Pulsifer and Todd A. Flubacher, The Pursuit of Innovative Trust Strategies in an Uncertain Estate Planning Environment, A Christiana Bank & Trust Roundtable Moderated by Worth Magazine (Summer 2007).

Thomas R. Pulsifer, Income Tax Consequences of Trust Situs Selection, Presented at The American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel Fall Meeting, 2006 , Providence, RI (October 14, 2006)

Todd A. Flubacher, Thomas R. Pulsifer, Eliminate A Trust's State Income Tax, A Delaware non-grantor/incomplete gift trust can help you do it. That is, if a client lives in the right state. 112 , Trusts & Estates (May 2006)

Thomas R. Pulsifer, Recent Developments In The Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Areas (Case Law Developments), Presented at The 38th Annual Delaware Tax Institute, Newark, DE (November 30, 2005)

Thomas R. Pulsifer, Recent Developments In Delaware Trust Law, Presented at J.P. Morgan Trust Company of Delaware Seminar, New York, NY (Nov. 16, 2005)

Thomas R. Pulsifer, Delaware Asset Protection Trusts, Presented at Estate Planning Council of Delaware Seminar, Wilmington, DE (Nov. 15, 2005)

Todd A. Flubacher, Thomas R. Pulsifer, Minimizing Income Taxation of Trust Income: The Delaware Advantage, 108 Probate and Trust Law Section Newsletter 8 (Philadelphia Bar Association Probate and Trust Law Section, Winter 2003-04)

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