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Washington Bars Insurers from Maintaining Legal Malpractice Suit Against Policyholder Defense Counsel

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

In Stewart Title Guar. Co. v. Sterling Savings Bank, et al., Wash. No. 87087-0 (October 3, 2013), the Washington Supreme Court held that a nonclient insurer may not pursue a malpractice claim against appointed defense counsel for failure to assert...

Economically Depressed Contaminated Properties Are Prime Candidates for Significant Real Property Tax Relief

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

While New Jersey is known as the Garden State, it is also regrettably fertile ground for contaminated properties as a result of its long history of industrial development. With over 20,000 contaminated sites, New Jersey is infamously ranked number...

Federal Court Dismisses Second Challenge To California City’s Eminent Domain Plan

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

On November 6, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed without prejudice as not yet ripe for determination a suit by investors seeking to preempt a California city’s plan to use its eminent domain authority to seize...

SEC Releases New FAQs On General Solicitation

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

On November 13, 2013, the SEC released new compliance and disclosure interpretations (which we’re calling FAQs) aimed at addressing common questions relating to private offerings that make use of general solicitation under new Rule 506(c) and Rule...

U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service Reopens Public Comment Period For Proposed Listing Of Gunnison Sage-Grouse

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) recently announced the reopening of the public comment periods for its January 11, 2013 proposed rules to list the Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act...

Are DPAs Morally Suspect?

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

You know it is going to be a bad day when you are excoriated in public by a sitting federal district judge. It is even worse when the comments of that federal judge make it into one of the most prominent international business dailies around; the UK...

What To Expect During A Car Accident Deposition

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

Although you can expect your attorney to do most of the work involved in litigating your car accident claim, some things require your personal presence. In most car accident cases where a lawsuit is filed, injury victims can expect to be deposed at...

7 Tips When Suing a Retail Store for Injuries

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

Shopping-related injuries prompt thousands of personal injury claims in the U.S. every year. But when you sue a retail store for a shopping-related injury -- like one man did for his toe fracture at Lowe's -- what steps should you take? Here are seven tips to keep in mind......

Second Circuit: in-house counsel may not seek to profit as whistleblowers against former employers

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued an important ruling restricting in-house counsel from acting as whistleblowers in litigation against their current or former employers....
By: DLA Piper

Trial attorney slain outside his law office was targeted, police chief says

By EsqSocial Corporation 14/11/13

A Nebraska trial lawyer was fatally shot Wednesday as he stood beside a red Chevrolet Avalanche parked outside his Grand Island law office at around 6:30 p.m.

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