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... . Hence, this experimental, yoga-stretch of a post and its motivating question. What can physics teach us about corporate governance and financial regulation? To begin, consider Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. Our layman's take-home ... the position measurement. In other words, in order to view something, one needs to shoot a photon particle at it, but at the quantum level that photon changes the momentum of the particle you are trying to measure. This is similar to how one cannot, some believe, ...

... While we are cautious of making it overly difficult for plaintiffs to establish access where the chain of possession of a work within a corporation is difficult to prove, Plaintiffs in this case have set forth no evidence tending to show a reasonable possibility ... King, 887 F.2d 265 (6th Cir .1989), where the Circuit found that the application of the corporate receipt doctrine would have resulted in the "implausible … quantum leap" that Stephen King had "access to a script submitted to a secretary ...

If you haven't seen it already, Bainbridge says Yale wants to pay an HLS corporate law professor $600K to move to gritty New Haven (and I suspect you can guess who it is), and Leiter says the number is plausible. I'd like to be able to say that business school professors can only express sympathy at money issued in such low quantums. Instead I will congratulate the home contractors in New Haven and Cambridge, who are perhaps the real winners here.

... were Rick Climan, a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Faiza Saeed, a partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; and Kim Rucker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Avon Products, ... , Inc. and Live Nation, Inc. The panel also discussed the role of reverse break-up fees, and their quantum, and the differences between public and private company transactions. The panel then considered In re IBP, Inc. Shareholders Litig., ...

... is protected from severe loss. Washington's ruling is contrary to the Louisiana rule which provides for recovery under quantum meruit. Washington courts have been consistent: If you fail to register where required, you have NO ... the definition of a contractor under the Act. The statute provides: (1) "Contractor" includes any person, firm, corporation, or other entity who or which, in the pursuit of an independent business undertakes to, or offers to undertake, or submits a bid to, construct, ...

... regularly briefed on all aspects of Quantum, including the finances, e.g., raising money, banking relationships and "tax things." In short, the testimony that related to the corporate structure or everyday governance of the company was clearly admissible. Condon's testimony regarding whether Hagen ever signed any Quantum checks was inadmissible because it was related to written instruments not produced by either party. ...

... surveys: 7 strategies, 33 tactical steps, and 2 benchmarks: (Metropolitan Corporate Counsel), Thomson Scientific Patent Focus Report 2008 reviews key statistics ... Patent Rules face challenge; the result is the state of patent practice is in flux: (Metropolitan Corporate Counsel), The proposed new Patent Rules and how they may affect your ... holders were allowed to collect royalties downstream after a license had been granted: (IP Law360), Quantum Corp - Federal Judge dismisses patent claims brought ...

... ' heart is in the right place: there is an inherent disparity in bargaining power between a consumer and a corporation, and that needs to be recognized. The problem I have with the slapdash approach of coming to a conclusion and then developing the ... As I've pointed out before, the mantra in arbitration cases is that the party seeking to avoid arbitration must provide a quantum of evidence that the clause is both substantively and procedurally unconscionable. No explanation is ever offered as to ...

... weightier than a peppercorn. Respondent ["R"] solicited from Appellant ["A"] investments and loans for corporations he solely owned or controlled. After investing and loaning 1.7 ... Finally, in or about June, 2003, [R] sought money for his solely-owned California corporation entitled, [Inc.2] In exchange for this money, [R] promised [A] that he would give ... one day only, there is sufficient consideration as the law does not weigh the quantum.'" (Krobitzsch v. Middleton (1946) 72 Cal.App.2d 804, 809 ...

... 2002].) "[I]n disputes between attorneys, the discharged attorney may elect to receive compensation based on quantum meruit or on a contingency basis, whereas as against a former client, the discharged attorney is entitled to quantum meruit only, ... ; Mendelsohn (91 NY2d 30 [1997]), the Court of Appeals was asked to resolve a dispute between the former counsel for corporate clients and the clients' successor counsel about material in the clients' files that successor counsel requested and former ...