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  • December 31, 2024 | Law.com

    Freshfields' Former Senior Partner, Who Oversaw U.S. Expansion, Knighted in New Year’s Honours

    Several other members of the legal profession were awarded, including HSF's former senior partner James Palmer, and Linklaters partner Vanessa Havard-Williams.

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  • K.O. v. M.O.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Jeffrey S. Sunshine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff by: Anne Peyton Bryant, Esq., Bryant & Bleier, LLP, New York, New York.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant: Ruth Yang, Esq., New York, New York. Attorney for the Children: Cheryl Charles-Duval, Esq., Brooklyn, New York.
    Case Number: xxxxxx

    Court Grants Mother Pendente Lite Child Support; Father Violated Orders of Protection

  • Star Am. Rail Holdco, LLC v. Carthcart

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Transportation
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Andrew L. Milam, Kaitlyn R. Cannan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Laura K. O’Boyle, Nathan C. Strauss, Zachary R. Edelman, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Colin B. Davis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jennifer R. Hoover, Andrew D. Kinsey, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew G. Fiorella, Alyssa A. Moscarino, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, Cleveland, OH; Tyler J. Leavengood, Charles Wood, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2024-0883-LWW

    LLC operating agreement's provision giving investor unilateral right to replace CEO for poor EBITDA did not conflict with other provisions regarding member consents, meaning investor validly replaced plaintiff as CEO.

  • Gracey v. Albawardi

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, Seth A. Niederman, Kasey H. DeSantis, Joshua K. Tufts, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Justen P. Phelps, Gibson Watson Marino LLC, Wichita, KS for petitioner.
    for defendant: William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ezra Ishmael Young, Law Office of Ezra Young, Ithaca, NY; Lisa M. Zwally, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for respondents.
    Case Number: 2024-0394-LWW

    Court rejected divorce judgment creditor's reverse veil piercing claim where the judgment was directed to her ex-husband, not his corporate entities, and there was no evidence the ex-husband had used the entities to perpetuate a fraud or had disregarded the corporate form.

  • Tornetta v. Musk

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Automotive | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; David E. Ross, Garrett B. Moritz, Thomas C. Mandracchia, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Catherine A. Gaul, Randall J. Teti, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Caleb G. Johnson, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Christine M. Mackintosh, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Daniel A. Griffith, Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Ryan D. Stottmann, Miranda N. Gilbert, Jacob M. Perrone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rudolf Koch, John D. Hendershot, Kevin M. Gallagher, Andrew L. Milam, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; A. Thompson Bayliss, Adam K. Schulman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; David S. Eagle, Sally E. Veghte, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony A. Rickey, Margrave Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Theodore A. Kittila, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2018-0408-KSJM

    Court limited other stockholders' motions to intervene to appealing the court's opinion letter where broader intervention could undermine the finality of the case and the stockholders' interest were adequately represented by the named plaintiff in the class action.

  • December 30, 2024 | Law.com

    Clifford Chance Hikes Partner Pay as UK Firms Fight to Stay Competitive on Compensation

    A positive set of results in the Americas have driven a successful year at Clifford Chance as costs rise.

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  • December 30, 2024 | New York Law Journal

    Key Securities Issues Need a Look From SCOTUS, Lawyers Say

    Both Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank or Nvidia v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB were widely cited among securities attorneys as cases to watch, as a ruling in either could ripple through the lower courts for years, dramatically altering the litigation landscape. But then the justices dropped the cases.

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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 30, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:December 24, 2024

  • In the Matter of A.I.G.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Spain
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-24-00035-CV

    In 2021, A.I.G., then 16 years old, pleaded true to capital murder by terroristic threat and was adjudicated as a child who had engaged in delinquent conduct.

  • Envt. Texas Citizen Lobby, Inc. v. ExxonMobil Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Damages | Environmental Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-20545

    In a per curium order, the court noted the en banc court heard oral argument more than 18 months prior and the parties had already endured multiple appeals and remands back to the district court over the course of nine years.