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Start-Up Companies and Venture Capital
Vega v. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
In representing a start-up in a negotiation, lawyers sometimes engage in puffery. There are limits, however, in what a lawyer can and should do in representing a client. In the case that follows, lawyers face a lawsuit because they represented to opposing counsel that "toxic terms" were just "standard terms".
Court of Appeal of the State of California
121 Cal. App. 4th 282
No. B170659
2004-08-02
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