240 ABA Journal Delaware articles.
A federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, has convicted three family members of a courthouse shooter of cyberstalking causing death.
Lenore Matusiewicz and her children, David Matusiewicz and Amy Gonzalez, now…
Jul 10, 2015 11:40 AM CDT
A federal jury began deliberating Wednesday in an unusual cyberstalking case against three relatives of a man who committed a fatal courthouse shooting.
Prosecutors say the wife, son and daughter…
Jul 9, 2015 12:10 PM CDT
Jul 1, 2015 4:30 AM CDT
A law banning corporate bylaws that impose a hefty price on investors who file unsuccessful shareholder derivative suits has been signed by Delaware’s governor. It prohibits companies from requiring plaintiffs…
Jun 25, 2015 3:15 PM CDT
There’s no dispute that former police officer Thomas Matusiewicz shot two women to death at a Delaware courthouse on Feb. 11, 2013, as they were headed to a child-support hearing,…
Jun 12, 2015 11:10 AM CDT
Delaware is not a state known for big jury verdicts in individual personal injury cases.
But on Thursday a jury there awarded a 51-year-old former bank teller $25 million in…
May 29, 2015 12:25 PM CDT
Citing “true contingency risk,” a Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Wednesday OK’d a $72.5 million attorney’s fees payment to two small law firms that represented the plaintiffs in a…
May 21, 2015 12:15 PM CDT
While $160,000 is widely recognized as the benchmark starting salary paid to first-year associates by the top BigLaw firms, a number outside New York City pay less.
Before the recession…
Apr 20, 2015 2:45 PM CDT
Among a number of proposed changes in Delaware corporate law, a bill that would ban companies from enacting fee-shifting bylaws is the most controversial.
Authorized by a state supreme court…
Apr 8, 2015 1:15 PM CDT
Court officials in Delaware are reviewing which security officers should carry guns following a reported courthouse prank earlier this month that allegedly involved a firearm.
“The Judiciary has been actively…
Feb 25, 2015 10:13 AM CST
A former computer programmer for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ultimately prevailed in a federal prosecution over claims that he stole source code from his employer.
But Sergey Aleynikov is still…
Feb 10, 2015 3:50 PM CST
Effective immediately, Delaware motorists may smile for the camera when they get their driver’s license photos taken.
Announced Wednesday, the state motor vehicles division policy change reflects an upgrade in…
Jan 29, 2015 10:00 AM CST
A well-known Delaware law firm is no longer facing a civil lawsuit over a sunken-treasure hoax.
But a sanctions hearing has been scheduled later this week by a federal…
Dec 9, 2014 12:15 PM CST
An investor group has filed a federal racketeering suit against a well-known Delaware law firm and one of its partners, contending that they aided and abetted a sunken treasure fraud…
Oct 9, 2014 10:50 AM CDT
A Silicon Valley powerhouse has opened a second Delaware office in Wilmington, with an ex-chief of what many consider the nation’s top business court at the helm.
Former chancellor
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