Romania is fighting against Gabriel Resources' bid to revive its $4.4 billion arbitration claim against the country, saying the mining company's attacks on a tribunal member are "opportunistic," and that his work for a non-governmental organization didn't affect the proceedings' outcome.
Romania is fighting against Gabriel Resources' bid to revive its $4.4 billion arbitration claim against the country, saying the mining company's attacks on a tribunal member are "opportunistic," and that his work for a non-governmental organization didn't affect the proceedings' outcome.
South Korea on Tuesday prevailed in its bid to wipe out a $216 million arbitral award issued to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, though the private equity firm has already vowed to resubmit its claim to a new tribunal.
U.S.-recognized members of Venezuela's National Assembly are pressing a D.C. federal court to throw out Air Canada's lawsuit seeking to enforce a more than $25 million arbitral award against the country, arguing that the arbitrators erroneously allowed the administration of President Nicolás Maduro to defend the case.
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected Reed Smith LLP's latest effort to intervene on behalf of the purported former owners of international shipping company Eletson Holdings in Eletson's $102 million breach-of-contract litigation with rival Levona, saying the firm can't represent the holding company post-bankruptcy "by repeated incantation."
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired the one-time managing partner of Dechert LLP's Moscow office, whose practice focuses on advising corporations, banks, investment funds and other clients on mergers and acquisitions matters, cross-border transactions and matters related to emerging markets, the firm announced Tuesday.
A litigation investor’s recent complaint claiming a New York mass torts lawyer effectively ran a Ponzi scheme illustrates how litigation funding arrangements can subject attorneys to legal ethics dilemmas and potential liability, so engagement letters must have very clear terms, says Matthew Feinberg at Goldberg Segalla.
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, McDermott Will & Schulte LLP and Dechert LLP are among the law firms following the lead of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on year-end associate bonuses this week, with at least five large firms matching the market leader within a day of Cravath's Tuesday announcement.
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP must pay $3.7 million in attorney fees to a healthcare tech company that won on malpractice claims against the firm in 2024 after six years of litigation and an eight-day bench trial, a New Jersey state judge has ordered.
A Fifth Circuit judge denounced the judge who penned a federal court order blocking Texas' newly redrawn congressional map, saying in a Wednesday opinion the order blocking the redistricting amounts to the "most blatant exercise of judicial activism" he had ever seen.
U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan acknowledged Wednesday that the full grand jury in the James Comey case never saw or voted on the final version of the indictment that was handed up to the court in the case. An attorney for Comey said the clarification was grounds for dismissal.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said on Wednesday that after a federal judge in his state resigned in disgrace last year, he decided he had to revamp his selection process for judicial nominees.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to allow it to keep a $4 million advance payment retainer from the since-convicted former CEO of a bankrupt cybersecurity company, but the law firm conceded it should have clarified its rights after the government sought an asset freeze.
A Delaware federal court has disqualified Latham & Watkins LLP from representing the creator of a sleep apnea implant in its patent dispute after the firm served as counsel to the rival's underwriters, saying the "appearance of impropriety is glaring."
If the Senate does not take up a bill to repeal a provision in the government funding package allowing senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages, a Republican House member is already making contingency plans.
A bipartisan collection of current and former government officials has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, claiming the precedent has roots that date back to the country's founding and reflects key separation of powers principles.
