Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Almost every legal settlement includes a full release of claims.

In this Insight, first published in PLC, Shy Jackson considers how settlement agreements, while intended to resolve disputes, can sometimes become the source of further conflict over their ...

David A. Berger and Vera Zolotaryova write that practitioners often mistakenly assume that settlement communications are entirely off limits if the dispute is not settled and litigation ensues. By ...

For decades, the NCAA and college sports leaders went to great lengths to both avoid court and congressional intervention. Now, in the wake of a landmark settlement agreement, the courts hold ...

Officials with the city of Antioch and its Police Department met with civil rights attorney John Burris and his firm to sign a formal settlement Friday that agrees to make reforms to address major ...

Ninety-seven percent of all cases settle before trial. Many of these settlements occur with a handshake at a JPT or pretrial conference. Inevitably, some of those settlement agreements spawn ...

What happens if enough ACC football programs want to join a super league? That hypothetical — however realistic or unrealistic it may be — is addressed in the settlement agreement that ended the ...

College athletics is officially entering a new world. A California judge on Friday night a little bit past 9 p.m. ET granted approval to the NCAA’s landmark settlement of three antitrust cases, often ...

From Judge Thomas Rice (E.D. Wash.) Aug. 29 in Prepared Food Photos, Inc. v. Pool World, Inc., a copyright case in which the question is whether defendant has to redact certain materials from its ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) approved two settlement agreements Monday that allow Evergy Kansas Central (EKC) to recover the cost of three new generation facilities.

Gov. Maura Healey’s office has apparently only entered into one settlement agreement since the Arlington Democrat took office in January 2023, according to documents provided in response to a public ...