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Business judgment rule did not insulate corporation from indemnification liability

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 23 2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the business judgment rule did not insulate a corporation from its obligation to indemnify individuals covered by an indemnification clause

Unnamed class member could not bring separate suit for disgorgement of attorneys’ fees

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2010

Nine months after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a fee application in the In re Enron class action litigation, plaintiff Michael Brown, an unnamed member of the class, brought a new action in the same court, asserting claims of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against Thomas Bilek and his law firm, seeking disgorgement of the $16 million in attorneys’ fees awarded Mr. Bilek for his work in the litigation