International Arbitration

  • February 22, 2024

    10th Circ. Won't Enforce $2.3M Award In Shipping Feud

    The Tenth Circuit has shut down a shipowner's bid to enforce a $2.3 million arbitral award against a charterer's founder following a dispute over a stymied Venezuelan oil shipping deal, rejecting arguments that the shipowner could hold the founder liable as his company's alter ego.

  • February 22, 2024

    Aviation Services Co. Seeks OK Of $5M Niger Award

    An aviation company incorporated in Luxembourg has asked a D.C. federal court to confirm a final arbitral award of €4.8 million, approximately $5 million, stemming from the Republic of Niger's expropriation of a ground handling services enterprise in which the company has invested.

  • February 22, 2024

    First-Ever Anti-Doping Act Defendant Sentenced To 3 Months

    A "naturopathic" therapist who distributed performance-enhancing drugs during training for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 has been sentenced to three months in prison by a New York federal judge, becoming the first-ever defendant to receive time in jail under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act.

  • February 22, 2024

    Biz Group Urges OECD Candidates To Back Digital Duties Ban

    The U.S. Council for International Business laid out its priorities for countries vying to be members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, looking to garner support for a global moratorium on digital tariffs that is set to expire in a week.

  • February 22, 2024

    Judge Irked By Arbitration Ask Years Into Au Pair Wage Case

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday twice lobbed the phrase "judge shopping" at lawyers for an au pair placement agency that, four years into a proposed collective wage action by former child care workers, now want the case sent to arbitration in Switzerland.

  • February 21, 2024

    Contractor Says Lima Merits Sanctions In $140M Award Row

    A municipal contractor has asked a D.C. federal court to sanction Lima, Peru, for prolonging its efforts to enforce nearly $140 million in arbitral awards it won over a highway contract that went awry, saying the city has unnecessarily prolonged the dispute with two actions.

  • February 21, 2024

    Justices Urged To Turn Away $285M Panama Canal Award Suit

    The operator of the Panama Canal on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away a case in which $285 million in arbitral awards are being challenged over an arbitrator's "evident partiality," saying close relationships between arbitrators are so "ubiquitous" in international arbitration that they are unremarkable.

  • February 21, 2024

    ByteDance Can't Yet Arbitrate Ex-Coder's Wrongful Firing Suit

    A California federal judge declined to send a former ByteDance Inc. engineer's wrongful termination suit to arbitration, writing in a ruling made public Tuesday that there are factual disputes over whether he signed employment agreements containing arbitration clauses, saying the matter should be resolved via a jury trial.

  • February 21, 2024

    Boies Schiller Hires White & Case Int'l Arbitration Atty In DC

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced Wednesday that it has added a longtime White & Case LLP partner to its international arbitration group in Washington, D.C.

  • February 21, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: White & Case LLP

    White & Case LLP successfully countered anti-dumping duties on lemon juice imports from Brazil for agriculture giant Louis Dreyfus Co. Sucos, scored a rare suspension agreement to halt the U.S. government's anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into imports of white grape juice concentrate from Argentina, and it helped Mercedez-Benz escape political instability in Russia, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Judge Threatens Ex-Trump Aide With Contempt Over Records

    A D.C. federal judge threatened to hold a Trump-era White House aide in contempt for his continuing failure to turn over all the records covered by the Presidential Records Act to the U.S. government.

  • February 20, 2024

    US Small Businesses Have Most To Lose From Digital Duties

    The possible demise of an international moratorium on tariffs for digital products, including software and media downloads, could cut into small businesses' profits and create compliance burdens for the companies that survive.

  • February 20, 2024

    Dutch Court Rejects Russia's Appeal Of $50B Yukos Awards

    Russia on Tuesday lost its last-ditch appeal to overturn $50 billion in arbitral awards issued a decade ago to former shareholders of Yukos Oil Co., once the country's largest oil company, after it was seized by the Kremlin amid allegations of allegedly phony tax debts.

  • February 20, 2024

    WTO Says Revised Duties On Spanish Olives Still Out Of Line

    The World Trade Organization called on the U.S. to fix revised countervailing duties on Spanish olives, ruling Tuesday that the duties are still not in compliance with its 2021 decision rejecting the investigation that resulted in the tariffs.

  • February 20, 2024

    Ex-BigLaw Atty Avoids Prison For Ch. 11 Lies

    A former BigLaw partner on Tuesday was spared any prison time for lying to a New York bankruptcy court in his 2022 personal Chapter 11 case, in an attempt to shield his assets from creditors.

  • February 20, 2024

    No Coverage For Firm In Haiti Malpractice Suit, Insurer Says

    An insurance company has asked a Washington federal court to declare it does not have to cover a Seattle law firm facing a $31 million New York federal malpractice case stemming from its representation of a Haitian agency in a petroleum contract arbitration, arguing the firm breached the insurance agreement by lying on its application.

  • February 20, 2024

    Justices Won't Weigh Nonsignatory Arbitration Issue

    The U.S. Supreme Court won't take up an oil and gas company's bid to clear up whether a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement may play the arbitration card, the justices said Tuesday.

  • February 20, 2024

    Validity Of $2B Venezuelan Bonds Remains Unresolved In NY

    New York's highest court on Tuesday cleared a path for Venezuela's state-owned oil company to argue that nearly $2 billion in defaulted bonds are invalid under its domestic law, saying the validity question can now be answered by the federal courts.

  • February 16, 2024

    'No Respect': 2nd Circ. Judge Chides Dissatisfied Arb. Users

    A Chinese cinema magnate's argument that he was inadequately notified of an arbitration that led to a $457 million penalty had a Second Circuit judge invoking the 1972 classic film "The Godfather" on Friday, as he criticized parties who only come to court to complain after the fact.

  • February 16, 2024

    Trade Dispute Reform Draft Emphasizes Mediation

    A draft agreement for overhauling the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement process circulated Friday proposes a new emphasis on the institution's alternatives to the formal litigation process that the U.S. has criticized as exclusionary and inefficient.

  • February 16, 2024

    Canada Liable Under NAFTA For Axed LNG Project, Co. Says

    A U.S. company that invested at least $120 million in a since-thwarted liquefied natural gas project maintained that Canada is liable for $1 billion in damages for breaches of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and that the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has jurisdiction over its claims.

  • February 16, 2024

    EU Launches First In-Depth Foreign Subsidy Probe

    The European Commission is launching an investigation into whether state assistance gave a Chinese train manufacturer a leg up in its bid for a Bulgarian government contract, the authority's first investigation under the European Union's new foreign subsidies regulation.

  • February 16, 2024

    Ex-FBI Field Boss Gets 28 Months For Foreign Payouts

    A former FBI field office supervisor was sentenced Friday to 28 months in prison for failing to disclose a $225,000 payment that he received from a former Albanian intelligence official while overseeing counterintelligence matters at the bureau.

  • February 16, 2024

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP won a $16 billion victory against the Republic of Argentina for former shareholders of YPF SA in what the firm said is the largest U.S. judgment ever against a sovereign nation — and one of the largest U.S. judgments ever — landing it among Law360's 2023 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2024

    Del. Judge Won't Reorder Priority Scheme For Citgo Auction

    A Delaware federal judge on Thursday denied a bid from certain creditors of Venezuela for a "more equitable" distribution of proceeds from an auction for control of the U.S. oil giant Citgo slated for later this year, ruling that their motion came too late.

Expert Analysis

  • The Case For Post-Bar Clerk Training Programs At Law Firms

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    In today's competitive legal hiring market, an intentionally designed training program for law school graduates awaiting bar admission can be an effective way of creating a pipeline of qualified candidates, says Brent Daub at Gilson Daub.

  • Attorneys Have An Ethical Duty To Protect The Judiciary

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    The tenor of public disagreement and debate has become increasingly hostile against judges, and though the legislative branch is trying to ameliorate this safety gap, lawyers have a moral imperative and professional requirement to stand with judges in defusing attacks against them and their rulings, says Deborah Winokur at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Nix Of $11B Award Shows Limits Of Arbitral Process

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    A recent English High Court decision in Nigeria v. Process & Industrial Developments, overturning an arbitration award because it was obtained by fraud, is a reminder that arbitration decisions are ultimately still accountable to the courts, and that the relative simplicity of the arbitration rules is not necessarily always a benefit, say Robin Henry and Abbie Coleman at Collyer Bristow.

  • Int'l Arbitration Doesn't Have To Be Slow And Expensive

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    Anton Maurer at JAMS offers a series of practice points aimed at reducing the cost and delays of international arbitration, such as avoiding overbroad document discovery, without harming the result of the proceedings.

  • AI Can Help Lawyers Overcome The Programming Barrier

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    Legal professionals without programming expertise can use generative artificial intelligence to harness the power of automation and other technology solutions to streamline their work, without the steep learning curve traditionally associated with coding, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.

  • A Look At Enforcing And Contesting Arbitral Awards In Qatar

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    As Qatar aspires to become a regional investment hub as part of its Qatar Vision 2030, it has committed to modernizing its arbitration practices in accordance with international standards, including updating the process of enforcing and contesting arbitration awards, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Preparing Law Students For A New, AI-Assisted Legal World

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    As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the legal landscape, law schools must integrate technology and curricula that address AI’s innate challenges — from ethics to data security — to help students stay ahead of the curve, say Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics, Ryan Abbott at JAMS and Karen Silverman at Cantellus Group.

  • General Counsel Need Data Literacy To Keep Up With AI

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    With the rise of accessible and powerful generative artificial intelligence solutions, it is imperative for general counsel to understand the use and application of data for myriad important activities, from evaluating the e-discovery process to monitoring compliance analytics and more, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

  • Navigating Discovery Of Generative AI Information

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    As generative artificial intelligence tools become increasingly ubiquitous, companies must make sure to preserve generative AI data when there is reasonable expectation of litigation, and to include transcripts in litigation hold notices, as they may be relevant to discovery requests, say Nick Peterson and Corey Hauser at Wiley.

  • Finding Focus: Strategies For Attorneys With ADHD

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    Given the prevalence of ADHD among attorneys, it is imperative that the legal community gain a better understanding of how ADHD affects well-being, and that resources and strategies exist for attorneys with this disability to manage their symptoms and achieve success, say Casey Dixon at Dixon Life Coaching and Krista Larson at Stinson.

  • Protecting The Arbitral Process In Russia-Related Disputes

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    Four recent High Court and Court of Appeal rulings concerning anti-suit injunction claims illustrate that companies exposed to litigation risk in Russia may need to carefully consider how to best protect their interests and the arbitral process with regard to a Russian counterparty, say lawyers at Linklaters.

  • Attorneys, Law Schools Must Adapt To New Era Of Evidence

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    Technological advancements mean more direct evidence is being created than ever before, and attorneys as well as law schools must modify their methods to account for new challenges in how this evidence is collected and used to try cases, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • RSA Insurance Ruling Clarifies Definition Of 'Insured Loss'

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    A London appeals court's recent ruling in Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance v. Tughans, that the insurer must provide coverage for a liability that included the law firm's fees, shows that a claim for the recovery of fees paid to a firm can constitute an insured loss, say James Roberts and Sophia Hanif at Clyde & Co.

  • Best Practices For Cos. Navigating US-China Investigations

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    Given recent enforcement trends and the broad jurisdictional reach of U.S. laws, companies with operations in China must enhance their compliance programs in order to balance new corporate enforcement expectations with Chinese data protection and privacy requirements, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • Tips For Litigating Against Pro Se Parties In Complex Disputes

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    Litigating against self-represented parties in complex cases can pose unique challenges for attorneys, but for the most part, it requires the same skills that are useful in other cases — from documenting everything to understanding one’s ethical duties, says Bryan Ketroser at Alto Litigation.

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