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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trade secret and contract claims often travel together. For example, a failed collaboration that involved the exchange of confidential information may result in the disclosing party alleging that the ...

The proposed settlement of three antitrust cases concerning the compensation of college athletes that now has been approved by the NCAA, the Power Five conferences and lawyers for the plaintiffs ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a legal brief filed on Monday, MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) made it clear that it does not agree with the Department of Justice‘s position on the banning of cooperative compensation, ...

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.