Trial Skills: What to Say and How to Say It is a new book written by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry. The book is 175 pages long, broken down into 28 easily-digested chapters. Explained Judge Perry, “this book is short; because most trial lawyers are too busy to read a lengthy […]
A fiduciary’s liabilities can sometimes arise in unexpected contexts. A recent decision involving an estate tax liability held that a fiduciary was personally liable for unpaid estate taxes. In Carroll v. United States, 2009-2 USTC ¶ 60,577 (N.D. Ala. 2009), the taxpayer was denied a bankruptcy discharge for unpaid estate taxes arising from the estate […]
Some commentators view fiduciary duties through a contractual framework. Judge Frank Easterbrook and Professor Fischel state, “The fiduciary principle is fundamentally a standard term in the contract. Fiduciary duties are not special duties; they have no moral footing; they are the same sort of obligations, derived and enforced in the same way, as other contractual […]
This is the third part of a review of Mary Szto’s article, “Limited Liability Company Morality: Fiduciary Duties in Historical Context,” 23 Quinnipiac Law Review 61 (2004-2005). This week we get to the heart of the matter – the case law summary. The author starts by explaining that, “In the Anglo-American tradition, principals of a […]