Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

About this office:

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP is a firm of more than 600 lawyers with 11 offices offering a full array of legal services to clients worldwide, with a special industry-based focus in the Financial Services, Insurance and Reinsurance, Life Sciences, Education, Airport, Technology and Private Equity/Venture Capital sectors. Whether the legal issue involves complex securities, high stakes litigation, bankruptcy, intellectual property, real estate development, public finance, estate planning and fiduciary services, tax, or other legal services, our extensive business knowledge of these industry segments makes us value-added members of the client's team.

At Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, we share a culture of respect and professional excellence. We believe these are key factors in our ability to be responsive to our clients' needs, and that we succeed when our clients succeed. We offer our clients an unyielding commitment to their success, and a tireless effort to add value.

The combination of Edwards & Angell LLP and Palmer & Dodge LLP in the Fall of 2005 blended the distinguished reputations of two century-old leading full-service law firms.

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has earned its reputation as a distinguished community leader and a spirited citizen. In addition to serving as directors and advisors to numerous community organizations. Our attorneys have received awards for their steadfast commitment in providing pro bono services throughout the communities in which they live and work. Further, the Firm has produced several public and private leaders including a current U.S. Senator, as well as Federal and State Judges.

Administrative Law, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Aviation and Aerospace, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Business Law, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Construction Law, Contracts, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Debtor and Creditor, Education Law, Elder Law, Eminent Domain, Employee Benefits, Energy, Entertainment and Sports, Environmental Law, Family Law, Finance, General Practice, Government, Government Contracts, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade, Internet Law, Labor and Employment, Legal Malpractice, Litigation, Media Law, Medical Malpractice, Mergers and Acquisitions, Natural Resources, Occupational Safety & Health, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Professional Liabilty, Real Estate, Securities, Taxation, Technology and Science, Toxic Torts, Transportation, Trusts and Estates, Wills and Probate, Zoning, Planning and Land Use, Academic Employment, Age Discrimination, Agency Litigation, Alternate Dispute Resolution, Antitrust Law, Arbitration Insurance, Arbitration, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Aviation Claims, Bank Regulatory Law, Benefit Take Away Agreements, Biotechnology Law, Business Acquisitions, Capital Finance, Civil Litigation, Class Actions, Collective Bargaining, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Litigation including Lender, Commercial Loans, Commercial Real Estate Finance, Communications Finance, Complex Civil Litigation, Computer & Technology Transactions, Computer Law, Construction Finance, Copyrights, Covenant - Not to Compete, Creditors Rights, Criminal Appeals, Debt & Equity Finance, Defamation Law, Development & Leasing, Emerging Growth Companies, Emerging Technologies, Employee Discrimination, Employment At Will, Employment Law, Employment Litigation, Entertainment Law, Environmental Litigation, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Estate & Gift Taxation, Estate Administration, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Executive Compensation, Fidiciary Law, Financial Services, Food & Drug Regulation, General Civil Litigation, General Corporate Law, Gift & Transfer Mechanisms, Guardianships, Hazardous Materials Law, Health & Hospital Law, Health Law, Hospital Law, Hospitality Law, Insolvency, Insurance Coverage, Insurance Regulatory, Insurance Transactions, International Business Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Labor Law, Land Use, Land Use & Litigation, Landlord & Tenant Law, Legal Ethics, Lending, Licensing & Distribution Arrangments, Licensing & Unfair Competition, Litigation Federal & State Courts, Litigation of Restrictive Covenants, Loan Workout Law, Maritime Law, Mass Torts, Mediation, Medical Device, Medical Pharmacy Malpractice, Mortgage Lending Licensing, Municipal, Negligence, Non-Competition Agreements, Partnerships, Patent Infringement, Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, Personal Tax Planning Law, Premises Liability, Probate, Professional Discipline, Professional Organization Law, Public Finance, Public Utility Regulation, Real Estate Foreclosures, Real Estate Workouts, Receiverships, Refinance & Development Law, Reinsurance Law, Reinsurance Litigation & Arbitration, Risk Management, Secured & Asset Based Lending, Securities Law, Sex Discrimination, Surety Law, Tax Exempt Bonds, Tax Exempt Finance, Tax Planning for Corporations, Taxation of Estates Law, Technology & Transaction Law, Trade Secrets Agreements, Trademark Litigation, Trademarks, Trusts Law, Unfair Competition Law, Venture Capital, Venture Capital Finance, White Collar Criminal Defense, Wrongful Discharge & Discrimination.

Plaintiffs Are Tripped Up by Loss Causation
Christine M. O'Connor, Michael T. Gass, Stephen G. Huggard, Matthew A. Martel, Richard J. McCarthy, Robert Novack, John L. Reed, Charles W. Stotter, Eric Tunis, Michael Maimone, May 16, 2008
The district and appellate courts have examined Dura and the parameters of loss causation. These courts have narrowly construed what constitutes a "corrective disclosure" under Dura and have chipped away at the presumption of reliance in fraud-on-the-market cases.

Non-Stockholder Director Lacks Standing to File Derivative Suit
Joseph B. Cicero, Michael Maimone, April 14, 2008
In Schoon v. Smith, the Delaware Supreme Court recently affirmed the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision dismissing a derivative complaint brought by a director of a Delaware corporation for lack of standing.

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