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Aggressive Bargaining: The Legal and Ethical Boundaries of “Me Too”-era Settlements (at Frankfurt Kurnit’s Litigation Ethics Summit)

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The second panel of the day focused on the ethical and legal limits of aggressive bargaining in the settlement context, with a special focus on settlements of harassment and discrimination cases in the “Me Too”-era. The panel featured plaintiff’s-side...
Confidential Settlements & Restrictive Settlement Agreements

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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR March 2001] Litigators enter into confidential settlement agreements every day. But if the First Department’s recent decision in Bassman v. Fleet Bank is correct, defendants have suddenly gotten a windfall,...
NYC Bar Nixes Restrictive Agreements

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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 1999] Two years ago, in a decision, Feldman v. Minars [230 A.D.2d at 359, 658 N.Y.S.2d at 616 (1st Dept. 1997)], the First Department surprised a lot of people by enforcing a restrictive settlement...

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