Supreme Court Decision on Specific Personal Jurisdiction a “SomethingBurger”
Prof. Pamela Bookman discusses the “SomethingBurger” of SCOTUS’s recent decision impacting specific personal jurisdiction
Business Law Practice
10-Q Random Summer/New Job Advice [PART 1]
Heedless of the old saw that free advice is worth what you pay for it, the Editors of The Temple 10-Q thought it might help students and recent graduates beginning new jobs (e.g., as summer associates)—and those who employ them—to have a list of “do’s” and “don’ts” accumulated from our years of hard experience. Although
Ad Hoc Procedure
Pamela Bookman provides a preview of her forthcoming article on the phenomena of ad hoc procedure.
Registration-Based Jurisdiction as a Price of Doing Business in Pennsylvania
Chase Howard (LAW ’18) dives into Daimler and its conflict with registration-based jurisdiction in Pennsylvania
Volkswagen and Global Forum Shopping
Professor Pamela Bookman highlights the global impact of the Volkswagen lawsuit on forum shopping
Delaware Supreme Court Establishes Rules Facilitating Dismissal of Board Advisors from M&A Litigation
In recent years, entrepreneurial plaintiffs’ lawyers representing stockholders in litigation challenging mergers and acquisitions have increasingly asserted aiding and abetting claims against financial and other advisors to corporate boards of directors, perceiving the investment banks and law firms that serve in these roles as potential defendants with deep pockets. This trend likely will reverse itself
Lessons Learned from the Staples/Office Depot Merger Challenge
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) motion to preliminarily enjoin the merger of Staples and Office Depot, the country’s two largest brick-and-mortar retailers and distributors of office supplies.[1] The injunction caused the companies to abandon the merger. Background Interestingly, the FTC’s theory was not based
Race to the Bottom
At the February meeting of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates in San Diego, which I attended, the delegates adopted a resolution giving states a regulatory framework for allowing non-lawyers to provide certain legal services. Resolution 105, sponsored by the ABA’s Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession, was purportedly aimed at addressing
Learning How Stuff Works (or Doesn’t)
We committed so much time and effort in law school learning to research, analyze, and advocate. We made course outlines, studied the Blue Book citation formats, searched the library for the Shepard’s pocket parts to make sure we cited cases that were not overruled, and lugged the heavy case reporters and digests from shelves to
How Law Firms Purchase Malpractice Insurance and What it Means for the Future of Legal Practice
Insurers have a number of tools at their disposal to change the behavior of their policyholders. This should be relatively unsurprising. Once an insurer indemnifies a policyholder from loss, it is the insurer’s money at risk, not the policyholder’s—if the policyholder suffers a loss, the insurer must pay the cost of the loss. And insurers hate to lose money just like you and me. It is therefore in the insurer’s interest to either demand or encourage policyholders to take more precaution.