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The Latest Word From the Court of Appeals on the Scope of Duty Owed by a Realtor to a Seller
In our June 2009 column entitled Caveat Broker: Avoiding Unenforceable Agreements to Agree, we reviewed the prerequisites to a viable and enforceable brokerage commission agreement. This month we...
Temporary Restraining Order Precludes Loss of Vice President to Major Competitor
Barnes & Barnes, P.C., successfully secured a Temporary Restraining Order precluding a Client’s former Vice President of Global Business Development from starting work as President of a...
Substantiating Malice, As an Exception to the Economic Interest Defense, Is Increasingly Difficult
Weeks before then-President George Bush defeated presidential candidate John Kerry, Dan Rather narrated a 60 Minutes piece on CBS assailing President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. ...
The At-Issue Doctrine & Waiver of Ancillary Privilege
Many trial attorneys prepare summations before voir dire or opening statements because an effective summation will have a nexus with voir dire and opening statements such positions can be taken with...
TASK FORCE REPORT & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE COMMERCIAL DIVISION
In late June 2012, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's Task Force on Commercial Litigation released its Report and Recommendations for the Commercial Division, the culmination of the Task Force’s...
Strike – It’s Out!! Striking Unnecessary, Scandalous Pleadings Pursuant to CPLR 3024(b)
Partnership breakups are characterized by counsel as business divorces for a good reason – the venom that permeates some of the cases is largely unrivaled (excepting, of course, matrimonial...
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