Corporate & Securities Law

Fiduciary duty of an architect
The issue of whether architects owe a fiduciary duty to a client occasionally shows up...

Indiana Law on Breach of Fiduciary Duty
First, what is a fiduciary duty? Where one is in a position of trust to others then that person has a fiduciary duty to those others...

The Seventh is on the Warpath Today . . .
Ridge Chrysler v. Daimler Chrysler, 06-4140 (7th Cir., Feb. 20, 2008) Fresh on the heels of this Posner decision comes an equally vitriolic Easterbrook decision...

Atkinson on the Duty of Obedience
Rob Atkinson Jr. (Florida State University College of Law) has posted Rediscovering the Duty of Obedience: Toward a Trinitarian Theory of Fiduciary Duty on SSRN...

Breach Of Fiduciary Duty
In a bar discipline case where the attorney had been charged with breach of fiduciary duty, conflict of interest, "giving something of value to a judge without charging any fee" and not disclosing the gift to opposing counsel and neglect...

Do fiduciary duties include obedience?
Rob Atkinson (Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell Professor, Florida State University College of Law), has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Rediscovering the Duty of Obedience: Toward a Trinitarian Theory of Fiduciary Duty...

Torts
Introduction to Torts

Can driving accident be cause for termination?
If your state is an at-will state, the company can fire you for any reason or fo...

How can i sue for a straw purchase?
Anyone can co-sign. A straw purchase would be if you has someone buy the car for...

what are the proper and legal steps to dissolve a partnership in an ongoing farm business?
I would say that the final tax forms are dispersed for that year with the indica...

Grubb & Ellis
alleging violations of fiduciary duties to shareholders and securities laws.

Mutual Fund Losses
alleging financial advisors breached fiduciary duties by not looking out for investors best interests.

Chrysler
Defective Jeep Windows

Chrysler, Behr
Face Environmental Class Action over Dayton Plant

Boat Crash
Police officer awarded $100,000 settlement after crashing into bridge piling while on duty.

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.