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To Lawyers Who Refer Clients to Estate-Planning Attorneys Who Act as Professional Trustees: Beware the Uniform Trust Code’s...

Consider the lawyer who lacks a working familiarity with trusts, and with estate planning generally. He prudently and ethically refers a client in need of an estate plan to a well-respected lawyer who also happens also to be...more

Dechert LLP

No Toll for Corporations Leaving Delaware on a Clear Day

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Delaware Supreme Court holds business judgment rule applies to decision to reincorporate a company out of Delaware made on a “clear day.” For a non-ratable benefit to give rise to a conflict and trigger entire fairness,...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Viewpoint: Early Action Key to Mitigating Risk in Professional Liability Claims

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Professional liability claims impact a multitude of professions, including those in the legal, medical, financial and insurance industries. Claims for malpractice, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and related...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DOL Expands Investment Advice Subject to Fiduciary Liability

Following previous failed attempts to expand the fiduciary liability of financial services providers, the DOL released a new rule that broadens the definition of “fiduciary” under ERISA. The new rule is expected to face...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Anticipated Rules for SPACs: Considerations for Market Participants and SEC Enforcement Objectives in the New...

The rules, originally proposed in March 2022, realign disclosures, marketing practices and other obligations in de-SPAC transactions more closely with traditional IPOs and add increased risk and uncertainty for market...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Nonprofit Compliance and Best Practices "To Do" List

Whether you run a nonprofit or serve on the Board, you have a responsibility to make sure the organization is both in compliance to weather the storm and take advantage of growth opportunities. There never seems to be enough...more

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