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A full stock of cases in areas such as international arbitration is attracting litigation funders to Washington, D.C. during the latest months. One example is Validity Finance which announces the opening of an office in the region as part of the firm’s expansion. Litigation funder Validity Finance lands in D.C. market in a bid to invest […]
RingCentral and Zoom Video Communications have entered into an agreement to mutually withdraw from various legal proceedings and will continue to work together while RingCentral transitions existing customers from the legacy RingCentral Meetings (RCM) service to the new RingCentral Video® (RCVTM). This agreement resolves all of the parties’ claims in the litigation, and the parties […]
Hey, in-house lawyers: Federal judge wants to be more involved in e-discovery. According to the 6th Annual Federal Judges Survey, done by Exterro, Georgetown Law CLE, and EDRM, in-house legal teams have been shirking their duties when it comes to meet-and-confer negotiations and must pay greater attention to new data types, specifically the preservation risks […]
Privilege is one of those fraught issues for in-house counsel, and it’s constantly being relitigated. Now, a federal court in New Jersey has confirmed that members of a corporate family all are represented by the same in-house counsel, whether that counsel occupies an office within the parent company or within a subsidiary. It said that […]
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Norton Rose’s litigation survey: In-house counsel fret about a downfall,
The law firm Norton Rose Fulbright conducts a survey of in-house counsel each year about litigation. And while the usual worries about cybersecurity are up front, there’s an additional wrinkle. This year’s respondents are worried about an economic upturn and, as a consequence, a rise in disputes. They aalso say they’re preparing for the onslaught, […]
Class action notice is one of those thorny problems that in-house lawyers have to occasionally face. How do you tell people that they may be entitled to an award? And the why don’t most people in the class respond? The Federal Trade Commission recently took a look at . that, and published a preliminary staff […]
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French member of parliament proposes boosting privilege for in-house attorneys
Attorney-client privilege is one of those third-rail issues that evoke strong reactions in both attorneys and laypeople. In the United States, the privilege is pretty robust, for both lawyers in private practice and in-house. Not so much in France though—indeed, in much of Europe. In France, communications between in-house attorneys and other employees on legal […]
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Draft German corporate crime bill limits attorney-client privilege, boosts internal
Germany has not had a formal law against corporate crimes, instead relying on a patchwork of administrative laws to prosecute corporate entities. Perhaps instigated by the diesel emission scandal at Volkswagen AG, the country’s Ministry of Justice has recently released a comprehensive corporate crime bill. Morgan Lewis, in a client note, sets out the basics […]
It can happen anytime: An employee sees wrongdoing somewhere in the organization, and contacts your compliance or legal department. What should you do? Kyle DeYoung, of Cadwalader, sets out how to respond in a client note. First of all, he says, the recent payment of $50 million to a pair of whistleblowers should serve as […]
