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Electronic commerce, technology development and licensing, mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing relationships practice, along with his previous business experience with commercial banks and e-commerce and outsourcing enables Steve Tupper to provide clients with an important resource for emerging e-business issues.

If you would like to know more about Privacy, Data Security and E-Commerce, please contact Steve Tupper at stupper@dykema.com.

Dykema's Practice Areas

Privacy, Data Security and E-Commerce

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Technology Transactions Practice Description

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Featured Articles:

• Protecting Consumer Data
  High-profile breaches of consumer data security are raising red flags about privacy policies that might create unnecessary legal liability.

• You’ve Been Hacked
  State laws and industry standards are raising the stakes on enforcing consumer data security policies.

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Delisa Y. Russell
Corporate Finance Group

(Running Time: 8:53)

Deal or No Deal
Dykema attorney Delisa Y. Russell talks about Material Adverse Change clauses and how to structure a transaction now that this clause is rarely upheld in court.

If you would like to know more about corporate finance, please contact Delisa Russell at drussell@dykema.com.

• MAC Clauses Get Specific
  With M&A deals growing larger every year, buyers are negotiating specific contingencies and thresholds in their transaction agreements.

• Costly Breakups
  When billion-dollar M&As go bad, boilerplate material adverse change clauses rarely protect buyers from liability for large breakup fees.

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Mark W. Peters
Mergers & Acquisitions

(Running Time: 8:20)

Agreeing to ‘Go-Shop’
Dykema Member Mark W. Peters discusses the pros and cons of instituting ‘go-shop’ provisions when corporate boards deal with unsolicited takeover bids.

If you would like to know more about mergers and acquisitions, please contact Mark Peters at mwpeters@dykema.com.

• Making ‘Go-Shop’ Clauses Work in M&A Agreements
  Illustrating a growing trend in corporate mergers and acquisitions, corporate directors are checking the market before bringing the deal to shareholders using ‘go-shop’ clauses.

• Recent M&A Deals with ‘Go-Shop’ clauses
  Recently some major mergers have included ‘go-shop’ clauses.

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Dennis M. Haffey
Business Litigation

(Running Time: 9:13)

Settlement by Jury Poll
Dykema Member Dennis M. Haffey discusses an innovation that turned a jury trail into an ADR settlement by using the court-appointed jury to help reach a settlement.

If you would like to know more about complex litigation resolution, please contact Dennis Haffey at dhaffey@dykema.com.

• Innovative Solution Resolves VSI v. SPX Dispute
  Seven weeks into a jury trial in federal court, the parties in a breach-of-contract disputeVSI Holdings v. SPX Corp.agreed to dispense with the rest of the trial and cut straight to a jury poll to determine a financial settlement

• Settlement by Jury Poll
  The settlement amount was determined by polling each juror on one question.

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Melissa C. Brown
Securities Litigation

(Running Time: 12:34)

Redefining Director Liability
Melissa Brown explains how Stone v. Ritter establishes a new standard for corporate directors personal liability in cases of lapses in oversight.

If you would like to know more about director liability, please contact Melissa Brown at mbrown@dykema.com.

• Caremark Standard Set in Stone
  Shareholders often use the courts to attempt to hold directors personally responsible for all kinds of corporate problems.

• From Graham to Stone: The Evolution of Director Liability
  A series of cases beginning in 1963 have been refining the basic premise that directors have an affirmative duty to exercise good faith in overseeing corporate operations.

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Todd Grant Gattoni
Mass Tort Litigation Defense

(Running Time: 13:45)

Foreign Mass Torts Finding U.S. Courts
As U.S. manufacturing companies are learning, American courts are becoming the world’s dumping ground for mass-tort lawsuits.  Dykema Member Todd Gattoni talks to InsideCounsel about the rising tide of class action and mass tort lawsuits filed in the U.S. by foreign citizens against U.S. corporations in this June, 2007 podcast.  From his chair at the defense table, Gattoni sees ways for corporate America to reduce the risks of ending up in the courtroom.

If you would like to know more about pharmaceutical and medical device mass tort defense, email tgattoni@dykema.com.

• Mass Tort Imports: U.S. Defendants Face Rising Tide of Foreign Class Actions
  When plaintiffs' lawyers in a medical-device class action case were deciding where to file suit, their choice of venue was obvious.

• Sending Them Home: Forum Non Conveniens and Global Class Actions
  Plaintiffs' attorneys are going global in their efforts to assemble class-action lawsuits.

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Richard E. Gottlieb
Consumer Financial Services

(Running Time: 16:30)

Subprime Lending Meltdown
To better understand the complexity of the subprime-lending crisisas well as the implications of regulatory measures being proposed to fix itDykema Member Richard Gottlieb talks to InsideCounsel about the current developments and pending litigation in the industry for this May, 2007 podcast. Listen as Gottlieb, who leads Dykemas consumer financial services practice, puts perspective on the legal and regulatory fallout that financial institutions are seeing, and how they can minimize the damage.

If you would like to know more about consumer financial services litigation matters, email rgottlieb@dykema.com.

• Subprime Shakeout: Best Practices, Market Forces Avoid Need for Onerous Regulation
  The recent subprime-lending meltdown invites comparisons with other major crises.

• Regulating Subprime Lending
  Lawmakers at state and federal levels have responded to the subprime-lending crisis by doing whats expected of them proposing new legislation.

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