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Providers Negotiating with Doctors Who Have Restrictive Covenants Beware

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Providers negotiating with doctors and other medical professionals who are bound by enforceable restrictive covenants is tricky business. By virtue of his/her/their position, these physicians may owe fiduciary duties to the...more

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Minority Owners May Be Able to Obtain Privileged Company Documents in Ownership Disputes

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When corporate management requests or obtains legal advice from corporate counsel, management expects those communications to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, and usually they are. But there are...more

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Chancery Declines to Order Production of Privileged Document

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Drachman v. BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc., C.A. No. 2019-0728-LWW (Del. Ch. Aug. 25, 2021) - Drachman addresses the attorney-client privilege, certain exceptions thereto, including the Garner doctrine, and...more

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Catch-22: Defending a Breach of Duty of Good Faith Claim and the Potential Waiver of Legal Privilege

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A defendant who wishes to rely on legally privileged information in response to a claim alleging breach of a duty of good faith, or alleging bad faith, may face a "Catch-22" scenario. ...more

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Chancery Declines Applying 'Garner' Exception to Privileged Documents in Books-and-Records Action

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In the recent decision in Salberg v. Genworth Financial,the Delaware Court of Chancery declined to compel the production of attorney-client privileged documents in a books-and-records action. In Salberg, Vice Chancellor...more

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