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Bentham Makes Bet on Whistleblower Suits
October 21, 2016
Australia-based litigation funding outfit Bentham IMF this week rolled out a new initiative in the U.S. designed to increase its investment in whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act.
Midsize Firm Leaders Fight Gender Pay Gap With Data
October 20, 2016
In a legal market still plagued by gender-based pay inequity, midsize and small firms have the ability, and some say responsibility, to carefully track…
Samsung Sued Over Sluggish Response to Smartphone Dangers
October 20, 2016
Although the cellular world moves fast, Samsung Electronics has taken too much time to address reports that multiple generations of its devices' batteries overheat and pose a danger, according to a plaintiffs' lawyer who filed one of the most recent in a string of lawsuits filed against the Seoul, Korea-based maker of smartphones.
Job Losses At Merging U.K. Law Firms Unfortunate, But Predictable
October 20, 2016
Continental Breakfast: your daily update on what's happening in Europe.For all of the potential benefits of mergers, they are incredibly expensive…
Brexit Legal Challenge Succeeds With Vote Now To Be Held Before EU Exit Can Begin
October 19, 2016
Continental Breakfast: your daily update on what's happening in Europe.A historic legal challenge over whether U.K. prime minister Theresa May…
Litigation Funders Planning a New Role: Law Firm Ownership
October 18, 2016
Burford Capital and others plan to take advantage of a U.K. law allowing nonlawyer ownership of law firms. But some litigation finance executives question if that could eat into the growing industry before it matures.
Jeter Endorsement Dispute Examines Role As a Director of Apparel Company
October 18, 2016
Contracts between a corporation and a corporate director can give rise to certain difficulties in managing expectations of the director's obligations and responsibilities. Such contracts may create obligations that extend beyond those fiduciary duties inherent to the director position. This extension of the director's role may increase the risk of a conflict between a director's contractual obligations and his fiduciary duties.
New Report: Cybersecurity and Law Firms - Defeating Hackers, Winning Clients
October 18, 2016
Primarily drawing on the results of ALM Intelligence's most recent Law Firm Cybersecurity Survey, this report consists of two parts: Threat and Opportunity. It examines the progress, or lack thereof, that law firms have made in coming to terms with the continually evolving cybersecurity and data privacy landscape, and it explores the development of cybersecurity as a practice area.
U.S. Companies Reviewing $600 Billion U.K. Investment Over Hard Brexit Fears
October 18, 2016
Continental Breakfast: your daily update on what's happening in Europe.Major U.S. corporations are reviewing their U.K. investments due to concerns…
Law Firm's TV Ad Draws Fire From Defense Bar
October 17, 2016
A television ad for personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan is sparking a backlash from defense lawyers who say its message about insurance coverage crosses the line into jury tampering.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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  • Meet the Lawyer Working on Inclusion Rider Language
    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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