• April 8, 2020 | Daily Business Review

    Parenting Plans During an Unprecedented Pandemic

    The current COVID-19 global pandemic has created unique challenges for all of us with significant impact to those divorced/separated parents attempting to follow their parenting plan or time-sharing schedules, and has caused much confusion when making the decision to rigidly follow the stay-at-home restrictions instituted in an area, or the terms of a parenting plan/court order.

    1 minute read

  • February 28, 2020 | Law.com

    UK's Surprise Exit Casts 'Deep Shadow' Over Unified EU Patent Court

    "A 'setback' is probably an understatement at the end of the day," said Morrison & Foerster partner Otis Littlefield of the move. "I think that could be the end of this system." 

    1 minute read

  • February 13, 2020 | The Recorder

    Alphabet, HP, Cisco and Tesla in Top 10 of 'Cleanest' Global Companies

    California tech companies lead The Carbon Clean 200, which ranks publicly traded companies that are leading the way on clean energy issues in the first quarter of 2020 and offers several key takeaways for general counsel and their companies.

    1 minute read

  • February 13, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

    Alphabet, HP, Cisco and Tesla in Top 10 of 'Cleanest' Global Companies

    The Carbon Clean 200 ranks publicly traded companies that are leading the way on clean energy issues in the first quarter of 2020 and offers several key takeaways for general counsel and their companies.

    1 minute read

  • February 11, 2020 | New York Law Journal

    DLA Piper Hires 3 From Greenspoon Marder in NYC

    The litigation partners include the head of Greenspoon Marder's Manhattan office.

    1 minute read

  • February 11, 2020 | Daily Business Review

    Greenspoon Marder Loses 3 New York Partners to DLA Piper

    Greenspoon Marder's New York managing partner leads to group to the fourth-ranked firm on the Am Law 100 list.

    1 minute read

  • In the Interest of VA

    Publication Date: 2020-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Evidence | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Hassan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-19-00590-CV

    The trial court terminated the parental rights of appellants, Mother and Father, with respect to their five children and appointed appellee, the Department of Family and Protective Services, to be the children's permanent managing conservator.

  • Martell v. Texas Concrete

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Christopher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-18-00764-CV

    In this restricted appeal of a no-answer default judgment, the return of service recited an impossible chronology in which the process server served the defendant in 2017 with a citation that the process server did not receive until 2018.

  • In re Essendant, Inc. Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Juan E. Monteverde and Miles D. Schreiner, Monteverde & Associates PC, New York, NY; Donald J. Enright and Elizabeth K. Tripodi, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert S. Saunders, Arthur R. Bookout, and Lilianna Anh P. Townsend, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gregory P. Williams, Lisa A. Schmidt, Matthew D. Perri, and Angela Lam, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; and Matthew Solum, P.C., and Ian Spain, of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D68839

    Stockholders' breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from board's rejection of existing merger agreement in favor of all-cash acquisition offer dismissed where stockholders failed to make prima facie case of board's breach of the duty of loyalty and where acquirer's stake in the company was insufficient to make it a controlling stockholder for the purposes of an aiding and abetting claim.

  • In the Matter of TVT

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Zimmerer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-18-00807-CV

    Appellant T.V.T., who was 13 years old at the time of the offense, was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.