James D. Honaker

The Best Lawyers in America has released its 2024 edition, listing 39 attorneys from Morris Nichols. The results are based on peer-review evaluations from more than 76,000 eligible attorneys.

The Best Lawyers in America has released its 2023 edition, listing 35 attorneys from Morris Nichols. The results are based on peer-review evaluations from more than 71,000 eligible attorneys.

The Best Lawyers in America has released its 2022 edition, listing thirty-two attorneys from Morris Nichols. The results are based on peer-review evaluations from more than 66,000 eligible attorneys.

Morris Nichols was ranked in The Legal 500 US, a nationwide guide to the foremost law firms in the United States.

Morris Nichols partners, Jason Russell and Jim Honaker, will serve as presenters. Jason will speak on “Recent Developments in Unclaimed Property in Delaware.” Jim will present the session “Recent Statutory Amendments to the DGCL.”

Thirty-one Morris Nichols attorneys were recognized in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The results are based on peer-review evaluations from more than 67,000 eligible attorneys.

The Legal 500 United States today released its 2020 edition, ranking Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP in its nationwide guide to the foremost law firms in the United States.

The 2018 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL") were recently enacted. The amendments update the ratification statute, Section 204, to address recent case law. Nonstock or "membership" corporations are now also permitted to use the statutory ratification provisions to cure corporate defects.

The 2016 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) were recently enacted.

The 2015 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”)  address important policy topics and make certain technical improvements that should interest practitioners, including changes to the board approvals required to issue stock and changes to Delaware’s statute on ratification of corporate defects.

The 2014 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL) implement relatively minor, but important, improvements to existing provisions.

Rick Alexander, James Honaker, and Daniel Matthews authored “Forum Selection Bylaws: Where We Are and Where We Go from Here,” published in the July 2013 Securities Litigation section of Insights: The Corporate & Securities Advisor (Vol. 27, No. 7).

James D. Honaker, Jeffrey R. Wolters, “Analysis of 2013 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law,” Aspen Publishers, Inc.

James D. Honaker and Eric S. Klinger-Wilensky, members of the Morris Nichols Delaware Corporate Law Counseling Group, authored “Dividends, Redemptions and Stock Purchases” for Practical Law Company’s Practice Note series.

James D. Honaker, Jeffrey R. Wolters, “Analysis of the 2009 Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law,” Delaware, Aspen Publishers, Inc. (2009)

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Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, “Stockholders in Corporate Governance: Power to the Franchise or the Fiduciaries?: An Analysis of the Limits on Stockholder Activist Bylaws,” Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 33 (2008)

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Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, “The Nuts and Bolts of Majority Voting,” Aspen Publishers, August 2006 (revised Dec. 7, 2006)

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Frederick H. Alexander, James D. Honaker, “Amendments Adopted to the Delaware Corporation Law,” Corporate Counsel Weekly, Corporate Practice Series, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (July 26, 2006)

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James D. Honaker, “A New Approach to Deal Protection in Delaware,” Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, Aspen Law & Business (2005)

Jon E. Abramczyk, James D. Honaker, “Going-Private ‘Dilemma’?—Not in Delaware,” 58 Bus. Law. 1351 (Aug. 2003)