In The Client, based on the John Grisham novel, an 11-year-old boy (Brad Renfro) witnesses the confession and suicide of a mob lawyer. With the mob after him and a federal attorney (Tommy Lee Jones) who wants him to tell…
Legal professionals are expected to follow the Rules of Professional Conduct. This research guide provides you with a whole array of resources in this important area, including ethics opinions, WSBA Disciplinary Notices, and Freivogel…
Today in Legal History: U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton
The state of Arkansas imposed term limitations through Amendment 73, a ballot measure that prohibited the listing of any person who served the maximum terms allowed in the U. S. House or Senate on the general election ballot. Soon after the…
Delaware Supreme Court on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting
The Delaware Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has held that the Court of Chancery erred when it ruled
that liability for breach of the duty of loyalty in a bad faith context could
be imposed without a showing of intent.
The Supreme Court of South Dakota has held that an LLC may
be dissolved when two of four members refuse to renegotiate the terms of an
agreement between the LLC and those two members.
In Kirksey v. Grohmann,
four sisters were left equal…
Delaware Court of Chancery on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting again
The Delaware Court of Chancery has erroneously held that it
was correct in its earlier decision to permit a case to survive summary
judgment under Stone v. Ritter
without facts indicating that the defendants intended to violate a known duty.…