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Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware is criticizing a decision by newly sworn-in Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick over billing for services related to the sale of TransPerfect.
Lawyers for TransPerfect Global have requested a change on Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick’s decision regarding Skadden Arps’ past billing practices.
TransPerfect has asked for more detail on billing practices from the Chancery Court-appointed custodian of the company, Robert Pincus, a former Skadden Arps partner, after being billed more than $44 million the past years.
A letter to McCormick stated that “Pincus’s gamesmanship and bill churning continues with these motions and refusal to engage in discussions towards compromise solutions to outstanding issues… Encouraging and rewarding motion practice and scorched-earth tactics over compromise is the antithesis of judicial efficiency and has an antithetical result.”
Delaware News Journal
Fifty-one state employees made more than $200,000 in 2020, nearly double the number of people who made that sum the year before.
That s according to a database of state employee salaries provided by the state Office of Management and Budget.
The plethora of high earners is due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic demanding more hours of top health officials and Black Lives Matter protests prompting police to clock in an unrivaled amount of overtime.
Dr. Rick Hong, the medical director of the Division of Public Health, was the highest-paid employee last year – and the only employee to make above $300,000. His total earnings amounted to $301,321, which includes overtime and other earnings.
April 30
th marks a special day for some. For those of you who are aware, I have covered the case of TransPerfect in Delaware for years now, and to this day, it remains the longest-running case in the Delaware Chancery Court. The story is a bizarre tale of what seemed to be a simple corporate break up between two owners, but in essence, has become an example of government overreach, lackluster oversight of the courts and brazen abuse of power to enrich friends of the various insiders within the Delaware system.
So why is today, April 30
th special? The employees and leadership of the world’s largest translation, language services and e-discovery companies, TransPerfect Global, with 6500 employees in over 100 offices, including the Israeli division called, Milim near Tel Aviv, are celebrating the last day of Delaware’s Chancellor Andre Bouchard’s time on the bench. He resigned with more than five years left on his term. He didn’t talk about his reasons, but court offi
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