The Durable Power of Attorney for Property (DPAP) is one of the most overlooked pieces of an estate plan, but it is also one of the most useful and essential tools. The main purpose of a DPAP is to...

International Arbitration Rules Should Promote Efficiency, Best Practices

International businesses are continuing to arbitrate the vast majority of their international disputes in this intensifying global marketplace. There are, perhaps, twenty or so competing sets of ru...

Is Arbitration Becoming Too Much Like Litigation?

As arbitration has grown from a little-used alternative to litigating smaller matters, to a tool now regularly used to settle disputes of $100 million or more, many wonder what implications this gr...

DE Court of Chancery Weighs in on Private Equity MBOs

With the recent spate of private equity acquisitions in which the target company's senior management is often so closely involved — it was only a matter of time before the courts were asked to weig...

New Evidentiary Burden Could Strain Class Action System

A recent decision by the Second Circuit, welcomed by the defense bar, heightens the evidentiary standard plaintiffs must satisfy in order for a court to certify a putative class of investors. While...