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WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 23, 2021--

Andre Bouchard, who retired as chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery earlier this year, has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a litigation partner in Wilmington, the firm said Monday.

Delaware Business Now Reading Time: 2 minutes Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware is criticizing a decision by newly sworn-in Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick over billing for services related to the sale of TransPerfect. Lawyers for TransPerfect Global have requested a change on  Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick’s decision regarding  Skadden Arps’ past billing practices. TransPerfect has asked for more detail on billing practices from the Chancery Court-appointed custodian o...

The list of people is nearly double the amount who made $200,000 the year before.

Delaware News Journal Fifty-one state employees made more than $200,000 in 2020, nearly double the number of people who made that sum the year before. Thats according to a database of state employee salaries provided by the state Office of Management and Budget. The plethora of high earners is due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic demanding more hours of top health officials and Black Lives Matter protests prompting police to clock in an unrivaled amount of overtime. Dr. Rick Hong, the medica...

April 30 th marks a special day for some.  For those of you who are aware, I have covered the case of TransPerfect in Delaware for years now, and to this day, it remains the longest-running case in the Delaware Chancery Court.  The story is a bizarre tale of what seemed to be a simple corporate break up between two owners, but in essence, has become an example of government overreach, lackluster oversight of the courts and brazen abuse of power to enrich friends of the various insiders within...

Delaware Business Now Reading Time: 1 minute The owner of TransPerfect said a federal court decision marked a victory in a suit against Chancellor Andre Bouchard. A Delaware U.S. District Court ruling stopped short of intervening in the suit filed by TransPerfect owner Philip Shawe. In another development, Bouchard issued a discharge order for the custodian appointed to supervise the sale of the company. “We consider the ruling a victory in that the Federal Court found Chancellor Bouchard ...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Slams Lack of Transparency and Clear Conflicts of Interest in Recent Chancery Court Nominations April 13, 2021 GMT DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 13, 2021-- Yet again, Governor John Carney disregarded pleas for racial diversity in the Chancery Court through the recent nomination of former Skadden Arps lawyer Lori Will to join the Court as a Vice Chancellor, repla...

Delaware Business Now Reading Time: 2 minutes Gov. John Carney on Friday announced judicial nominations, which will be sent to the Delaware Senate for consideration. Nominations include the head of one of the nation’s top business courts. Vice Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick will be nominated to serve as Chancellor. McCormick, Will McCormick would be the first woman to serve as Chancellor and replace Chancellor Andre Bouchard, retiring. Governor Carney nominated McCormick to serve as Vice Cha...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Calls for New Age of Diversity on Chancery Court Amid President Biden’s Nominations April 1, 2021 GMT WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 1, 2021-- Today, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) called for a Black justice to be nominated to the Chancery Court following President Biden’s first round of historic judicial nominations in the federal courts, i...