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October 28, 2024

 

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 edition of New York Super Lawyers recognized DPK partners Tom Dewey, Dave Pegno, Steve Kramarsky, and Keara Bergin. This is Tom’s tenth year on the list, Dave’s seventh, and Steve and Keara’s fourth. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. 

October 21, 2024

 

In Thomas E.L. Dewey’s latest  New York Law Journal column he discusses the potential risks companies face when working with renegotiation of settlement agreements.​ Parties typically enter into settlement agreements with the expectation that their agreement will resolve their dispute. But sometimes they will attempt to renegotiate their settlement, often due to commercial circumstances. In those cases, tricky issues can arise concerning the effect of a renegotiation on the terms of an otherwise valid settlement agreement. 

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