Worldwide: Civil Law

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law the Georgia Tort Reform Act today. The goal of the Act appears to be threefold, i.e., to:

Hotel management agreements, like other commercial contracts, often contain clauses apportioning liability among the parties for potential losses or damages arising out of specific events or actions.

The extent of duty of care to vulnerable people should be considered by all employers.

On 16 September 2011, the Polish Parliament adopted a significant amendment to the Polish Civil Procedure Code (the "Code").

On May 9, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged former Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley, MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, LLC ("MGRA") a registered investment adviser, and Mayfield the CEO and majority owner of MGRA, in connection with allegations that they were involved in a secret exchange of lavish gifts to peddle influence over Detroit’s public pension funds’ investment process.

A recent California federal court decision denied certification to a putative class of Facebook "cost-per-click" advertisers who allegedly were charged by Facebook for fraudulent or invalid clicks on their advertisements.

In a decision poised to change the landscape of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") litigation, on April 17, 2025, the Supreme Court held in Cunningham et al. v. Cornell University et al. that a claimant alleging that a fiduciary engaged in an interested-party transaction under Section 406 of ERISA is not required to plead that statutory exemptions are inapplicable.

In a contractual obligation relationship, the parties may agree to the application of the laws of a particular country.

You don't need to point out the obvious to a court. You especially don't need to belabor the point.

On June 8, 2012, Genentech’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that US Patent No. 6,733,752 was invalid and not-infringed by Genentech’s trastuzumab product (HERCEPTIN).

Fueled by high financial stakes and the specter of injunctions, patent litigation is incredibly complex, expensive and can involve protracted battles at every step of the process.

In Advanced Fiber Technologies (AFT) Trust v. J&L Fiber Services, Inc., No. 11-1243 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2012), the Federal Circuit revised the district court’s construction of a term appearing only in the court’s construction of a claim term, and therefore vacated SJ of noninfringement.