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In many ways, today's social networking systems are wonderful tools, bringing people together ' and no longer just the domain of teenagers. But these networking systems raise a set of issues that require us to think about confidentiality and professionalism in a new way.
Matrimonial attorneys must be able to distinguish elements of leverage risk that are accentuated in today's economy in order to present overvaluing business equity. Here's how.
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'Courts will not set aside an agreement on the ground of unconscionability simply because it might have been improvident,'" a panel recently held in <i>Etzion v. Etzion</i>, 2008-00759.
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Financial experts are generally used in matrimonial matters to identify, value and help in the distribution of marital assets and also opine on issues such as income, cash flow, tax consequences or marital liabilities. This article focuses on the expert who is retained to render his or her own opinion.
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On May 20 of this year, the members of the American Law Institute (ALI) unanimously approved a project that was five years in the making ' "Principles of Aggregate Litigation." Although it encompasses all of the many forms of aggregated lawsuits, the Principles really focus on the most controversial one: The class action.
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This article summarizes the law of inadvertent waiver of privilege and the evolution of courts' approaches to this problem, describes the changes brought about by newly enacted Federal Rule of Evidence 502, and offers a roadmap for the product liability practitioner to keeping privileged documents out of the hands of one's adversary.
In a recent divided decision, New York's highest court may have changed some contours of product liability law as it affects cases involving optional equipment, knowledgeable purchasers and off-product warnings.
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A properly pleaded Complaint in a design defect case will permit the plaintiff to try his case on several different theories: negligence, strict liability and breach of warranty. Nevertheless, certain cases would be most efficiently tried only as a breach of warranty.
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The two recent Supreme Court decisions in <i>Riegel</i> and <i>Altria Group</i> are difficult to reconcile in fundamental ways, and, consequently, they did little to provide meaningful guidance to litigants and lower courts.
