Warning: That merger case from 2019 just came back to bite us hard

I had a client settle a minor shareholder dispute back in 2019 for $12,000 and now the same plaintiffs are using that settlement as leverage in their breach of fiduciary duty suit against the merged company. How do you handle prior settlement agreements that get dug up years later in completely separate litigation?

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patricia90522d ago

Ngl those old settlements always come back to haunt you somehow.

thomas_roberts21d ago

Sold my old place back in 2018 and thought I was done with it. Then a neighbor from ten years ago tracked me down on Facebook asking about some fence line agreement we supposedly made. Had to dig through old emails to find the original paperwork, which I'd honestly forgotten about. Ended up just sending them photos of the signed agreement and that settled it, but it was a hassle for a week straight. What worked for me was keeping digital copies of everything related to that sale, @patricia905, so I could pull them up quick when stuff came up later.