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FEATURE
of Mutual Respect
Peter J. Walsh, Jr.
A Matter
Practicing ‘The Delaware Way’ in Corporate and Commercial Litigation
It’s been about 20 years since I ventured outside Delaware to handle a matter. We had been poised to begin a trial in the Court of Chancery. It was a corporate case involving an individual who had a checkered past and who appeared to have used Delaware entities in furtherance of an illegal transaction that my clients were seeking to unwind. I felt good about the case and my clients.
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But two days before trial was to set to begin, a federal court in a midwest- ern city (which will go unnamed) enjoined my clients from proceeding in Delaware. The federal court agreed to schedule a trial for several weeks hence.
Suddenly, my clients were forced into a last-minute “away game.”
Given our work in preparing the mat- ter for trial in Chancery, my clients asked me to continue as lead counsel in the out-of-state federal court proceeding.
