Delaware News

The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that plaintiffs attorneys are entitled to $2.5 million in a case that will not bring immediate monetary relief.

In the Delaware Court of Chancery, the role of the fool and the king are played by the same man.   Since his appointment as the court's lead judge last June, Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. has only added to his well-known reputation in legal and corporate circles as the Jon Stewart of the bench—or to critics, a smart aleck who wields a lot of power.

Judge Judy may look like a judge, but she’s really an arbitrator. Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. and his colleagues on the Delaware Court of Chancery may act like arbitrators sometimes, but they’re judges, through and through.

A federal lawsuit getting attention in Delaware involves people unaccustomed to being named as defendants: judges.

The state's judiciary asked budget drafters Tuesday to allocate funds for two new Superior Court judges in New Castle County or risk losing the esteem of groups that rank Delaware courts as the best in the country.

Chevron Corp. and eight other corporations were sued by shareholders on Tuesday for adopting a bylaw that requires common types of shareholder lawsuits be brought exclusively in Delaware's Chancery Court.

Is the Delaware Court of Chancery's market share of M&A litigation slipping?

Law Blog has never met Chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Chancery Court, but we are officially a fan.  Late last year, Strine awarded plaintiffs’ attorneys $300 million in fees after they won a $2 billion judgment in a shareholder derivative lawsuit.

An appeals court ruled that a letter linked to Mark Hurd's abrupt departure from his post as chief of Hewlett-Packard Co should be unsealed, potentially revealing new details about his dramatic exit from the technology giant.

You already know that prominent investment bankers, lawyers and other advisers fight to work on the biggest, most complex – and therefore most lucrative — deals that come down the pike. But now it looks like the Delaware Chancery Court, the most prestigious and trend-setting court in corporate law, isn’t afraid to scrap for the biggest and best cases, too.