The principal issue in any bankruptcy case involving franchise issues will be the effect of the filing on the franchise agreement. As with most contracts, the party filing bankruptcy - the debtor - has two options. The debtor may assume the franchise […]
On July 25, 2012, Joseph M. Coleman presented The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You to FORIUS - Shared Services Networking Group, NACM North Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The popular media’s description of a recent Tarrant County jury verdict -- in the case of Mark & Linda Lesher v. Doescher, Coyel, et. al. -- might lead you to believe the internet’s veil of anonymity is lifting. The headlines read […]
Joseph M. Coleman presented Texas Two-Step: Impact of Corporate Formations Upon Collections and Bankruptcy Update for Credit Professionals to the National Food Equipment Manufacturer’s Credit Exchange Group on May 7, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.
Two years ago, in Gilbert Texas Construction, L.P. v. Underwriters at Lloyd’s London, the Texas Supreme Court held that the contractual liability exclusion in a general contractor’s CGL applied to exclude coverage when the insured assumed liability […]
In its recent decision in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe et al., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York became the first court to expressly approve the emerging automated document review process known as “predictive coding […]
In response to a multitude of lawsuits involving investments in the alleged multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme perpetrated by R. Allen Stanford, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated nearly a hundred cases into a multi-district litigation […]
On August 21, 2012, Christopher C. Pappas will be a guest speaker at the Construction Law Seminar which will be held at the Marriott-West Loop Hotel in Houston, Texas. The topics he will cover are “Litigation Avoidance and Management” and “Ethics […]
The Texas Legislature recently passed, and Governor Perry signed into law, House Bill 2093, which took effect on January 1, and which makes certain indemnity and additional insured provisions in construction contracts void and unenforceable as against […]
Joseph M. Coleman served as a panelist at the DFW Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers’ annual Financial Professionals Committee event held on October 4, 2012 in Dallas, TX. The event was co-hosted by the Turnaround Management Association’s […]
It is widely thought that the civil jury trial is dying a slow death in the American legal system. The cause of death is largely attributed to the high price tag associated with the modern jury trial. In the hopes of curbing this trend, the […]