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December 11, 2023
GOP Lawmakers Urge Raimondo To Nix Vietnam Review
Three Republican senators on Monday urged the head of the U.S. Department of Commerce to suspend the agency's review of Vietnam's nonmarket economy status, claiming the process is being rushed toward a reversal that could hurt American companies.
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December 11, 2023
Gibson Dunn Names European Attorney As AI Co-Chair
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Monday that London- and Paris-based partner Robert Spano was named co-chair of the firm's artificial intelligence group, working alongside the three California attorneys already serving in the role.
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December 11, 2023
Justices Turn Away Yacht Sale Arbitration Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to resolve whether an arbitral award can be vacated under federal arbitration law if it orders illegal activity, in a case that stems from a yacht sale that went awry.
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December 08, 2023
Venezuela Says Immediate Appeal Needed In Citgo Cases
Venezuela is pressing a federal judge to allow it to immediately appeal his ruling putting seven creditors closer to taking part in an auction of Citgo's indirect parent company next year, arguing that the legality of one of the largest forced sales in Delaware history is on the line.
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December 08, 2023
Trade Court Says Fish Import Case Belongs In District Court
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that it can't hear a Texas importer's allegations that the U.S. illegally blocked fish harvested off Antarctica, finding that claims against the international body regulating those waters belong in district court.
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December 08, 2023
Tristan Gets Ch. 15 Recognition In Bid To Collect Kazakh Debt
A New York bankruptcy court said Friday that it would grant Chapter 15 recognition to a debt restructuring underway in the British Virgin Islands by Tristan Oil Ltd., as part of the company's attempts to collect on a $555 million arbitration award from Kazakhstan's government.
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December 08, 2023
DC Circ. Affirms $618M Arbitration Award Against Venezuela
The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected efforts by Venezuela's interim government to overturn a more than $618 million arbitration award issued against the country, which had argued that an international tribunal wrongly excluded the Guaidó government from participating in the proceedings.
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December 07, 2023
Hitachi Must Arbitrate Transfer Claims In $384M Award Fight
A New York federal judge Wednesday ordered a Hitachi unit to arbitrate its claim accusing the founder of construction equipment rental company Acme Business Holdco LLC of fraudulently transferring away some $57 million, as the pair battle over $384 million in outstanding loans.
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December 07, 2023
Russians Charged With Hacking US, UK Intelligence Officials
Two men who work for the Russian Federal Security Service have been charged in California federal court with hacking email accounts belonging to current and former U.S. and United Kingdom intelligence officials, defense contractors, researchers and journalists, and leaking some of the information to the press ahead of the 2019 U.K. elections.
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December 07, 2023
Tai Says E-Commerce Pivot Avoided 'Policy Suicide'
The U.S. trade chief defended pulling support for long-held U.S. policy positions on digital trade during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, arguing that recent technological developments made backing old proposals "massive malpractice" or "policy suicide."
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December 07, 2023
Binance Seeks To Arbitrate Fraud Oversight Investor Suit
Binance has moved to compel arbitration of a proposed class action accusing the world's largest crypto exchange platform of turning a blind eye to potential money laundering and terrorist financing on its platform, arguing the plaintiffs' claims fall within the arbitration terms of a clause they expressly agreed to.
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December 07, 2023
Fla. Fairfield Inn Must Arbitrate Hurricane Damage Fight
A Florida federal judge ordered the owner of a Fairfield Inn in Tampa to arbitrate its hurricane damage dispute in New York with its insurers, saying the property owner's argument that arbitration unfairly favored insurers was irrelevant since the dispute involved a foreign underwriter.
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December 06, 2023
Confirmation Of Arbitration Awards Against Lima Nears
A highway contractor's pursuit of roughly $190 million in arbitration awards against Lima closed in on victory on Wednesday, but a D.C. federal judge first wants attorneys for the Peruvian capital to explain the municipality's criminal complaint against three arbitrators weighing the latest chapter in the toll road dispute.
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December 06, 2023
11th Circ. Told Mineral Co.'s Arbitral Award Favors Corruption
A Venezuelan state-owned mining company urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a $188 million arbitration penalty stemming from disputes over iron ore operations, saying the arbitrators are "advancing corruption and bribery" that a former British Virgin Islands minerals business partner used to procure a contract.
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December 06, 2023
UK Insurers Seek To Stop €425M Venezuelan Suits Abroad
Two British insurers urged a London appeals court on Wednesday to block Venezuela from pursuing €425 million ($460 million) claims over a sunken vessel in other countries, arguing that state immunity doesn't cover anti-suit injunctions.
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December 06, 2023
Stephenson Harwood Names Litigation Pro As Senior Partner
Stephenson Harwood LLP has announced that it will promote its commercial litigation co-head to senior partner next year to chair its supervisory council and represent the views of its partners moving forward.
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December 05, 2023
9th Circ. Says Coinbase Can Arbitrate Fraud Transfer Action
A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday held that cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase can arbitrate claims from a class of its customers alleging it failed to curb unauthorized transfers, ruling that a provision delegating any dispute arising out of their customer agreements to an arbitrator is not unconscionable.
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December 05, 2023
Political Concerns Marred $14.9B Malaysia Case, Court Hears
The winners of a $14.9 billion arbitral award issued in a territorial dispute with Malaysia are now alleging that political concerns over a lucrative aerospace contract with Kuala Lumpur provided the impetus for a Spanish court decision unseating the arbitrator appointed to oversee the arbitration.
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December 05, 2023
Laos Can't Sue In US For $3M Arbitral Awards, Investor Says
An American businessperson and his investment firms are hoping to escape paying a $3 million tab tied to an ill-fated casino venture in a lawsuit leveled by the government of Laos to enforce two international arbitration awards, arguing that the federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands lacks jurisdiction in the dispute.
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December 05, 2023
Atty Says Fake News Sanctions Deserve Due Process Hearing
An attorney who was hit with nearly $270,000 in sanctions after he was found to have manufactured fake news articles in a bid to influence an arbitration between Chevron and Saudi oil heirs told a federal judge this week he should have received a due process hearing before being slapped with the penalties.
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December 04, 2023
Wash. Judge Nixes HDT's $950M mRNA Vax Trade Secrets Suit
A Washington federal judge has thrown out Seattle-based biotechnology company HDT Bio's nearly billion-dollar lawsuit accusing an Indian pharmaceutical firm of ripping off its mRNA platform to develop a new COVID-19 vaccine, at least for now, a docket entry showed Monday.
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December 04, 2023
Seagen Looks To Revive Cancer Drug Claims In Daiichi Fight
U.S. biotech company Seagen Inc. will look to revive its claims seeking billions of dollars in damages in a dispute with Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. over cancer drug patents, arguing that an arbitrator disregarded the "language and essence" of an underlying collaboration agreement.
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December 04, 2023
Kyrgyzstan Drops Bid To Vacate $33M Award Over Resorts
The Kyrgyz Republic has settled its dispute against four Uzbek entities over the rights to several Soviet-era resorts in northern Kyrgyzstan, with the parties reaching an agreement that dismisses the country's suit in D.C. federal court seeking to vacate a $33 million arbitral award.
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December 04, 2023
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Blockchain gaming, lithium-battery production, nutrition supplements and Activision's $68.7 billion sale to Microsoft — nothing is too big or complicated for Delaware's Chancery Court to put on its agenda. The year is winding down, but things haven't slowed in the nation's top court of equity. Check here for all the latest news from the Chancery Court.
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December 01, 2023
La. Judge Won't Nix Arbitration Order In $11M Hurricane Row
A Louisiana federal judge has denied a bid by attorneys who missed a deadline to rescind his order tossing two defendants and forcing arbitration in a case over more than $11 million in hurricane damage to an apartment complex, ruling that their arguments lack merit anyway.
Expert Analysis
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5 Keys To A Productive Mediation
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Cortney Young at ADR Partners discusses factors that can help to foster success in mediation, including scheduling, preparation, managing client expectations and more.
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Why A Bankruptcy Court OK'd Rare Subpoena Via Twitter
Identifying and taking possession of estate assets can be disrupted when a debtor's previous owners are obstructionist and live outside the U.S., but a liquidator may be able to creatively serve a subpoena via email or even social media in such a situation, as authorized by a New York bankruptcy court in the recent Three Arrows Capital case, says Kyle Arendsen at Squire Patton.
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Evaluating The Legal Ethics Of A ChatGPT-Authored Motion
Aimee Furness and Sam Mallick at Haynes Boone asked ChatGPT to draft a motion to dismiss, and then scrutinized the resulting work product in light of attorneys' ethical and professional responsibility obligations.
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7 Tips To Increase Your Law Firm's DEI Efforts In 2023
Law firms looking to advance their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts should consider implementing new practices and initiatives this year, including some that require nominal additional effort or expense, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Gina Rubel at Furia Rubel.
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Series
Keys To A 9-0 High Court Win: Get Back To Home Base
When I argued for the petitioner in Morgan v. Sundance before the U.S. Supreme Court last year, I made the idea of consistency the cornerstone of my case and built a road map for my argument to ensure I could always return to that home-base theme, says Karla Gilbride at Public Justice.
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WTO Interim Appeals Award Demonstrates Process's Benefits
The first award from the World Trade Organization interim arbitration arrangement, recently issued in a dispute over Colombian tariffs, shows that members have a viable independent review process that can offer prompt and effective dispute resolution, although some may criticize the award as an example of interpretive activism, says Alan Yanovich at Akin Gump.
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Atty-Client Privilege Arguments Give Justices A Moving Target
Recent oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case regarding the scope of the attorney-client privilege appeared to raise more questions about multipurpose counsel communications than they answered, as the parties presented shifting iterations of a predictable, easily applied test for evaluating the communications' purpose, say Trey Bourn and Thomas DiStanislao at Butler Snow.
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5 Gen X Characteristics That Can Boost Legal Leadership
As Generation X attorneys rise to fill top roles in law firms and corporations left by retiring baby boomers, they should embrace generational characteristics that will allow them to become better legal leaders, says Meredith Kahan at Whiteford Taylor.
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6 Questions For Boutique Firms Considering Mergers
To prepare for discussions with potential merger partners, boutique law firms should first consider the challenges they hope to address with a merger and the qualities they prioritize in possible partner firms, say Howard Cohl and Ron Nye at Major Lindsey.
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What Energy Claims Against Spain Mean For Investor Rights
A Japanese investor's successful Energy Charter Treaty claim against Spain, which may have influenced the country's departure from the treaty, may be a harbinger for more pro-investor developments to come in investor-state arbitration, says Sohan Dasgupta at Taft Stettinius.
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5 Tips For Adding Value To Legal Clients' Experience In 2023
Faced with a potential economic downturn this year, attorneys should look to strengthen client relationships now by focusing on key ways to improve the client experience, starting with a check-in call to discuss client needs and priorities for the coming year, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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How Arbitration May Need To Adapt To Blockchain Disputes
As rapid technological developments such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens and smart contracts increasingly lead to legal disputes — as evidenced by the recent Voyager Digital and FTX bankruptcies — arbitration may need to adopt new resolution techniques that fit the novel landscape, says Peter Kamminga at JAMS.
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Opinion
Courts Should Reject Mandatory Arbitration In Insurance Suits
The case of Friends of Young Audiences v. Certain Underwriters, currently before a Louisiana federal court, is one of several pending opportunities for courts to support policyholder rights by declining to enforce mandatory arbitration provisions in insurance contracts, say Christopher Kuleba and Maria Castro Sanchez at Reed Smith.
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What's At Stake In Halkbank Sanctions High Court Case
During oral arguments in Halkbank v. U.S. later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether Turkey’s state-owned bank is immune from prosecution for allegedly helping Iran evade sanctions — a decision that will have far-reaching consequences for foreign state-backed entities and the U.S. Department of Justice, say attorneys at Cleary.
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6 Ways To Avoid Compounding Errors When Practicing Law
For lawyers and law firms, inevitable human error can lead to claims of malpractice or ethical violations, but the key is to avoid exacerbating mistakes by adding communication failures, conflicts of interest or insurance coverage losses, says Mark Hinderks at Stinson.