Category: Practice Area

A $4.5 million grant last year to Tonit Calaway was part of an executive retention effort at the automotive parts maker

       

Nine committee members voted to release the bill on its merits, leaving one more hurdle for Senate Bill 21 to clear before it goes to the desk of Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer.

       

The firings of Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter directly challenge the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1935 decision Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, legal experts said.

       

“These allegations easily implicate the services performed by Esbrook for the former clients ‘as a lawyer.’ These allegations clearly meet the low bar of ‘potentially’ arising out of the performance of ‘legal services,’ which is all that is required to trigger a duty to defend,” U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt said in a suit against the firm’s legal-malpractice carrier.

       

“I’m carefully watching the reactions of various firms, or the lack thereof, and I feel it’s my duty to vote with my pocketbook in terms of where I want to send my business in the future, a clothing company GC said.

       

“Defendants’ conduct and actions were despicable and were done maliciously, oppressively and fraudulently, with a willful and conscious disregard of plaintiffs’ and class members’ rights,” the complaint alleged, “thereby subjecting plaintiffs and class members to unjust hardship and distress.”