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Fiduciary Duty Fraud Misappropriation

Winstead PC

Court Holds That Step Children Did Not Owe Informal Fiduciary Duties To Their Step Father And There Was No Formal Fiduciary...

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In In re In the Est. of Booth, Bill and Doris were married in 1991 and had separate and joint accounts, No. 02-24-00056-CV, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 2666 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth April 17, 2025, no pet.)....more

Perkins Coie

Second Circuit Reverses Wire Fraud Conviction After Supreme Court’s Ciminelli Ruling: Key Takeaways on the Right-to-Control and...

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This month marked a significant development in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2023 rejection of the “right-to-control” theory of fraud in Ciminelli v. United States. In Johnson v. United States, the Second Circuit...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Self-Dealing Lawyer Held Jointly and Severally Liable in Trade Secret Misappropriation

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a judgment holding a lawyer jointly and severally liable for trade secret misappropriation and fraudulent transfer and enjoining any further use of the trade secrets...more

Goodwin

Litigation Insights - July 2021

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FOREWORD - On behalf of the new and expanding Goodwin London litigation team I am delighted to welcome you to our first ever ‘Litigation Insights’: a series of quarterly updates on important and interesting developments...more

K&L Gates LLP

Delaware Court of Chancery Dispenses with Multiple Motions and Claims as Business Partners Take a “Kitchen Sink” Approach to...

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Stone & Paper Investors, LLC, et al., v. Richard Blanch et al., C.A. No. 2018-0394-PAF (Del. Ch. June 29, 2020) involved a barrage of claims and counterclaims among LLC members and managers, including, misappropriation of...more

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SEC Charges Private Fund Administrator with Gatekeeping Failures

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced two administrative settlements in June with a fund administrator that provided accounting and fund administration services to several private funds based on its alleged...more

Gray Reed

Prospect Generator Is Vindicated

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The prospect generator’s worst nightmare is presented in Southwestern Energy Production Co. v. Berry-Helfand and Muncey. I will over-simplify the facts: Hefland and Muncey toil for years generating James Lime prospects in a...more

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