Wasn't this the slogan as we Manifest Destiny'd? Hm. Maybe not.
Perhaps unintentionally, this rule encourages spurious litigation by requiring each party in a lawsuit to pay its own attorneys’ fees (as opposed to “English Rule,” which requires the losing party to pay both sides’ legal fees, increasing the downside of bringing, losing, a frivolous claim).
So if you, or someone who owes you a big favor, are a lawyer, consider suing a corporate giant like McDonald’s for negligence because they served you hot coffee that burned you. Odds are that Mickey D’s legal costs for a trial would outweigh yours and you may get a settlement for an amount somewhere in the middle of those two amounts. Win-win.
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Finance: What is a Dissident Director?4 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is a dissident director Well everyone
else wanted diet but thiss guy well he just insisted
on regular he's the dissident going against the state against
the tide against the vote while a dissident director is
a member of the board who either votes against the
set of new mandates that everyone else went thumbs up
on and or who initiates her own vote which is
pretty much the opposite of what everyone else wants You
know we know people like that like maybe they voted
to replace all the toilets in the corporate washrooms with
today's It's happened Really In real life a dissident director
can dissent against popular board vote in things like the
company accepting a takeover bid at fifty eight bucks a
share in stock Well that dissident director might demand that
the takeover dobie paid in cash because well she doesn't
trust the stock market's appraisal of the valuation of the
stock currency being used to take over their company Well
another descent might revolve around a company seeking toe over
pay for an acquisition Like that dissident director might be
the lone rational voice suggesting that they not pay Ah
Hundred times revenue to take out a competitor And the
dissident director may also come from an operational perspective In
that they want to fire the ceo for poor performance
whereas the rest of the board loves being on the
ceo's good side for the selfies and you know all
the good instagram ingredients Well sometimes all it takes is
one brave soul to go against the crowd although when
it comes to the diet coke thing it might just 00:01:45.209 --> [endTime] be better toe Pick your battles
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