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“With relatively minimum actual contact with the state of Delaware in the normal -jurisdictional sense, (out of state lawyers) could nonetheless be brought into court.”
New York litigator Barry Sher on a recent Delaware court ruling that non-Delaware
attorneys can be sued in the state for their advice to Delaware-incorporated companies Sample v. Morgan, No. 1214-VCS (New Castle Co., Del., Ch)

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“I think it’s unique in the whole country. I’ve been a trial consultant for 30 years [and] I’ve never heard of anything like this.”
LA-based consultant Katherine James on Chicago trial lawyer Michael Panter’s Litigation Lab at DePaul College of Law, where trial -lawyers can test their cases before a class of
law students

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“They give you goose bumps when you see them. They are extremely valuable.”
Rare documents collector Elwin Fraley on
vellum copies of the Declaration of Independence engraved in 1824,
one of which, valued at $500,000, was found last year behind a filing cabinet in the U.S. Supreme Court Clerk’s office

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