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August 1, 2025 Issue – Insurance Defense Conflicts
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, A lawyer in our firm represents an insured as client pursuant to an arrangement with an insurance company under a policy that has a duty to defend the claim. Our firm has now been asked by…
Court Invalidates Indemnification Claim for Failure to Comply with Dispute Resolution Provisions
Halinski v. ADS Grp. Acquisition, LLC (Del. Ch. (7/25) discusses the propriety of indemnification claims. The relevant SPA deferred payment of a $4,439,000 Tax Holdback to cover certain possible post-closing tax liabilities. Over time, the SPA required Purchaser to release…
Chancery Dismisses Three-Pronged Breach of Fiduciary Claims
The Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed three claims in Ritchie v. Baker (6/25). Broadly speaking, the plaintiff failed to adequately plead demand futility under Court of Chancery Rule 23.1 because the complaint did not establish that a majority of the…
July 15, 2025 Issue – Billing of Expenses
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, For most engagements, our Firm charges a fee (hourly, fixed or contingent), plus certain expenses for travel, electronic legal research, large photocopy or scanning projects, overnight deliveries/couriers, outside vendors, etc., as specified in our engagement letter…
July 1, 2025 Issue – Lawyer Reporting Crime by Client
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, Our firm undertook a high-level collection action on a contingent fee basis for a foreign client that we understood to be a lender. The scope of our representation was to collect a substantial debt from an…
Federal Court Strikes Down HIPAA Reproductive Health Privacy Rule – What it Means for Health Plan Compliance
By: Lisa Rippey and Elena Humphrey
In a landmark decision, a federal district court in Texas struck down nearly all of the 2024 amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, known as the Reproductive Health Privacy Rule (the “Rule”), ruling that…
June 16, 2025 Issue – What is “Knowingly”
Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, I am a civil trial lawyer. I have a question about Rule 3.3 Candor to the Tribunal, which says that a lawyer shall not “knowingly” offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. On several…
SEC Withdraws Proposed Shareholder Proposal Rules
The SEC has withdrawn proposed rules captioned “Substantial Implementation, Duplication, and Resubmission of Shareholder Proposals Under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8″. In conjunction therewith the SEC announced “The Commission does not intend to issue final rules with respect to these proposals.”…
Federal Agencies Hit Pause on MHPAEA 2024 Final Rule Enforcement
On May 15, 2025, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) issued a statement of non-enforcement (the “Statement”) announcing that they will not enforce the 2024 Final Rule under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction…