Litigation and Disputes
The Litigation and Disputes section of FindLaw's Corporate Counsel Center provides information on matters such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and more. Understanding and managing litigation, disputes and investigations facing your company is of critical importance for corporate counsel, regardless of the company's particular industry. Topics like Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Product Liability, Professional Malpractice, White Collar Crime, and Administrative Hearings are all within the internal corporate legal department's area of responsibility. Research these and other litigation and dispute subjects in the Litigation and Disputes section.
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Litigation and Disputes
Litigation and Disputes Articles
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License? Assignment? Collateral Estoppel? Oh bother, indeed. -
Over the last few years, many have heard of litigation finance for the first time. Despite extensive press coverage of this rapidly growing practice, litigation finance remains a subject of some mystery even to sophisticated lawyers and corporate executives. In this article, we hope to dispel much of that mystery, and to highlight the advantages that litigation finance offers to both corporate clients and their lawyers. -
On October 26, 2012, the 2nd Circuit rejected arguments made by Argentina in its continued attempts to avoid repaying $1.33 billion in defaulted bonds to creditors including NML Capital, Ltd. -
In an unprecedented analysis of the Defense of Marriage Act, the 2nd Circuit determined that the federal law commonly known as "DOMA," was subject to heightened scrutiny, and under that test, Section 3 of the law that defines marriage and spouse, violates equal protection and was therefore struck down as unconstitutional. -
At first, the challenge seemed formidable. Our clients, two Minnesota individuals, claimed that they had been fraudulently induced to lend millions of dollars to another individual, a resident of the State of Colorado. The borrower invested most of the money in real estate located in Montana, Idaho and Colorado, and was moving the rest of it through several banks in these and other states.
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