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    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 13, 2012
    • 1 min

    Going Around Morrison – The Porsche Wars Produce A New Ruling

    Smart plaintiffs continue to find ways around the Morrison rules on the proper venue for securities claims. The most recent example...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 28, 2010
    • 3 min

    Some Big Picture Observations Regarding Extraterritorial Applications of Law as the World Watches th

    Time certainly flies. It seems just the other day I was writing this post about the grant of cert in the f-cubed securities litigation on...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 4, 2009
    • 3 min

    Litigation Stays and Overseas “Bankruptcy” Proceedings

    Using bankruptcy code chapters 11 and 15 to avoid litigation is not quite as easy as some might think, as illustrated by an order that is...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 2, 2009
    • 3 min

    Supreme Court Grants Cert in F-Cubed Securities Litigation

    This post offers a brief comment arising from the now widely reported fact (see, for example, SCOTUSblog and many others) that the U. S....
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 20, 2009
    • 2 min

    Global Choice of Law Issues for D & O Coverage – Contract Issues

    This post at Kevin LaCroix’s D & O Diary covers an interesting new decision from Canada on global choice of law issues arising from D &...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 12, 2009
    • 1 min

    Would US Auditors Prefer to Litigate Securities Issues in India or the US ?

    Here is a Law.com article by Andrew Longstreth regarding the defense view on whether a major securities class action should be litigated...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 6, 2009
    • 1 min

    Update on Toyota’s Efforts to Use the MDL to Control the Situation as to Inside Counsel and Do

    Here is a Corporate Counsel that provides an update on and links to documents regarding Toyota’s issues with its former inside counsel...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 6, 2009
    • 2 min

    Binding a Successor Corporation to a Forum Selection Clause in International Litigation Related to a

    With a hat tip to Mondaq, this article from Proskauer summarizes a recent 2d Circuit ruling holding that forum selection clauses may be...
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    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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