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January 20, 2026
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has expanded its bench of former public servants, announcing Tuesday the hire of a senior trial counsel from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Fraud Section, shortly after the agency revealed last week a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act judgments and settlements in the most recent fiscal year.
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January 20, 2026
King & Spalding LLP has rehired a former senior international trade associate in Washington, D.C., who has spent the past eight years in varying iterations of corporate in-house work for Stripe, a global payment company whose technology helps expand the ability of businesses to accept payment for services.
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January 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up a petition challenging a D.C. Circuit ruling concluding that federal courts do not have jurisdiction over a Jewish group's decades-old allegations that Russia is illegally holding on to its long-lost sacred texts.
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January 16, 2026
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 16, 2026
A London insurance broker urged a Florida federal court to toss a yacht owner's suit seeking $2 million in coverage over the sinking of its vessel off the coast of North Carolina, saying the court lacks personal jurisdiction because the broker has "woefully insufficient contacts" with the state.
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January 16, 2026
A panel of the District of Columbia Circuit appeared wary during oral arguments Friday of a Jordanian company's position that statements made by Iraqi government officials encouraging it to file litigation to enforce a $53 million debt owed by the country meant it had waived its sovereign immunity.
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January 16, 2026
A company that offers storage and cloud optimization using blockchain technologies has intervened in a Delaware federal court suit seeking to vacate a $40 million arbitral award favoring a cryptocurrency investor, calling the award "deeply flawed" and saying it has no liability in the dispute.
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January 16, 2026
Two former arbitration practice group leaders from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP have launched an international arbitration and litigation boutique in Washington, D.C. and New York, co-founding the practice with a longtime MoloLamken LLP partner and former associate.
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January 15, 2026
A U.S. property developer pursuing a treaty claim against Honduras after the country nixed a law creating special economic zones known as ZEDEs is no longer seeking as much as $10.7 billion in the dispute, saying it would prefer for the parties "to put aside their differences."
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January 15, 2026
A British Virgin Islands energy trading and logistics company has asked a Texas federal court to throw out a Guatemalan power plant operator's bid to vacate a $5.5 million arbitral award, saying the operator has never disputed that its debt is outstanding.
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January 15, 2026
The European Commission has announced its approval of a $5.9 billion bid by hedge fund Elliott Investment Management LP to purchase shares in Citgo's parent company and settle billions of dollars of debt owed by Venezuela and its state-owned oil company.
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January 14, 2026
A former global head of White & Case LLP's international arbitration group announced that he has left the law firm to establish his own practice as an independent arbitrator in New York.
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January 14, 2026
Confusion over the representation of Venezuelan entities in several pending New York cases relating to the enforcement of hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments issued to terrorism victims has come to a head following the Trump administration's actions in the country earlier this month.
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January 14, 2026
A bill introduced in the California state Senate seeks to regulate attorneys' use of generative artificial intelligence statewide, including banning lawyers from entering private client information into public AI systems and prohibiting arbitrators from utilizing AI in decision-making.
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January 14, 2026
Nigeria argued at an appeals court on Wednesday that it should be able to seek to recover its £50 million ($67.3 million) legal bill from the litigation funders of an oil and gas company that defrauded the West African state in arbitration proceedings.
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January 21, 2026
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP has scooped up an arbitration partner with over 20 years of experience from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe after the firm closed its Switzerland office, part of HFW's plans to bolster its international arbitration practice in Geneva.
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January 13, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday dismissed a Chilean construction company's petition to enforce a $146.5 million arbitral award against Italian construction giant Webuild, saying the court lacks jurisdiction and the matter belongs before the courts of Italy.
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January 13, 2026
Doak Bishop, founder of King & Spalding LLP's international arbitration practice, has left the law firm to pursue his work as an independent arbitrator full-time.
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January 13, 2026
A Finnish sports management company has settled its suit seeking to collect $1.2 million in arbitration awards from its former American partner in a deal to develop and manage National Hockey League players, the parties told a Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday.
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January 13, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge has vacated a $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson Holdings, saying, "The evidence is clear and convincing that Eletson committed fraud in the arbitration," and misled the arbitrator.
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January 12, 2026
A father and son targeted by Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company in a $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of a corruption and impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told a Pennsylvania federal court that the dispute belongs in arbitration.
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January 12, 2026
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP has acquired Schulman Bhattacharya LLC, a commercial litigation and arbitration boutique, according to a Monday announcement from Hughes Hubbard.
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January 12, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court closed out the week with developments ranging from leadership changes in a $13 billion take-private case and posttrial sparring over a major earnout to fresh governance fights, revived fraud claims and sanctions tied to advancement rights.
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January 12, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a petition that sought clarity on whether a court or arbitrator decides the issue of class arbitrability when the parties incorporate certain arbitral rules, in a long, winding legal malpractice dispute involving Louisiana medical companies.
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January 12, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted not to review a software developer's petition seeking to revive his $5 million arbitral award against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, in which he had sought clarity on whether manifest disregard of the law is a valid basis on which such awards may be vacated.