\u3cem\u3eCorwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC\u3c/em\u3e—An After-Action Report

Vice Chancellor Slights presented this speech as the Eighteenth Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law at the Fordham Corporate Law Center on April 9, 2018. Includes an introduction by Matthew Diller, Dean of the Fordham University School of Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution and Court-Appointed Experts

This article shamelessly borrows its subtitles-the Court\u27s Tale and the Expert\u27s Tale-from Chaucer\u27s tale-telling. The two tales examine the life cycle of a case utilizing a court-appointed expert. The Court\u27s Tale begins with a presumption against the court-appointed expert. Certain characteristics of a dispute, however, may be sufficient to rebut this presumption. The Court\u27s Tale tells of one such case. The case involved complex damage calculations and irreconcilable positions that invite an objective analysis. The article then turns toward the Expert\u27s Tale which describes how an expert helped resolve the problem. Following the Expert\u27s Tale, the court assesses the outcome of the collaboration