International Arbitration

  • February 24, 2026

    Mishcon Denies It Was Negligent In Administration Row

    Mishcon de Reya LLP has denied acting negligently when it advised two former directors of a brand development business to place the holding company and its U.K. arm into administration.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Wary Of Broad Reading Of Cuba Expropriation Law

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared inclined to erect guardrails around a federal law allowing U.S. victims of property seizures by the Cuban government to seek damages, in a pair of cases involving damages that could exceed $1 billion and claimants that include Exxon Mobil Corp.

  • February 23, 2026

    South Korea Wins Rethink Of $48.5M Hedge Fund Award

    South Korea persuaded a London court Monday to partly set aside a $48.5 million arbitration award over claims that the country's former president and senior officials unlawfully interfered in an $8 billion merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Won't Review Russian's Fugitive Label

    A Russian woman accused of helping an oligarch evade sanctions imposed by former President Barack Obama won't get a chance to contest her fugitive status at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices declined to review her case Monday.

  • February 23, 2026

    Supreme Court Rejects Cafe's Petition Over $2.86M Grant

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Georgia cafe's petition seeking guidance on the standards by which arbitral awards can be vacated, after the Eleventh Circuit refused to revive its claims against a bank that returned a $2.86 million COVID-19-era grant on suspicion of fraud.

  • February 23, 2026

    Justices Reject Eni Natural Gas Project Feud

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined Italian energy giant Eni's bid to review a New York appellate court decision that it says "stretched the claim preclusion doctrine beyond all constitutional bounds," in a long-running and multifaceted dispute stemming from a deal over a billion-dollar Mississippi liquefied natural gas processing facility.

  • February 20, 2026

    Lebanese Bank Challenges NY Jurisdiction In Terrorism Suit

    A Lebanese bank is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit's finding that it is subject to the personal jurisdiction of New York courts on claims over alleged assistance to Hezbollah by a bank it acquired, a decision that it says "entrenches a deep conflict among the lower courts."

  • February 20, 2026

    Carpatsky Seeks Baker Hughes Docs In $150M Award Row

    Carpatsky Petroleum Corp. asked a Texas federal court Friday to order energy giant Baker Hughes to respond to its document requests as it looks to enforce a $150 million arbitral award against Ukraine's largest oil company, OJSC Ukrnafta.

  • February 20, 2026

    DeLorean Says $4.2M Award Dispute Has No Houston Ties

    The DeLorean Motor Co. argues that a $4.2 million international arbitral award granted to an Italian design firm over a contract dispute for work on a reimagined version of the company's storied sports car has no business being litigated in a Houston federal court.

  • February 20, 2026

    Up Next At High Court: Cuban Seizures & Removal Deadlines

    The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its February oral argument session by hearing cases that could expand or limit the availability of damages for U.S. victims of property seized by the Cuban government and a defendant's chance to remove state court cases to federal court.

  • February 20, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Squire Patton

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP convinced an international tribunal last year to toss a $2.1 billion claim against Slovakia, in part by showing that the claimant's employees had faked injuries allegedly caused by the police and others, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2026

    Burford Capital Targeted For Docs In German Funding Feud

    A German entity is accusing Burford Capital LLC of improperly trying to dodge information requests in a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation by citing an underlying arbitration clause, despite being a nonsignatory and the Third Circuit shutting down the arbitration bid last year.

  • February 19, 2026

    Funder Longford Wins Patent Litigation Settlement Dispute

    Litigation funder Longford Capital has prevailed in arbitration relating to a dispute with Arigna Technology Ltd. over a settlement that ended certain patent litigation, according to documents filed in Delaware federal court.

  • February 19, 2026

    Attys React To Test Of Free Speech At Winter Olympics

    The Winter Olympics in Milan have delivered the expected drama of national and individual success and defeat, but for sports law experts, one Ukrainian athlete's expulsion stood as a test of the rules governing political protest and personal expression.

  • February 19, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's international arbitration lawyers scored a key discovery victory for client Exxon Mobil Corp. in a €20 billion ($23.74 billion) dispute over gas production in the Netherlands and successfully defended Ukraine against a $100 million investment treaty claim brought by a Russian-American businessman, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2026

    Engineering Co. Fights $2.4B Award In Colombia Project Row

    Amec Foster Wheeler has asked ICSID to annul an arbitration award a tribunal handed out after rejecting its claims against Colombia over a $2.4 billion liability imposed by its regulators, saying its arguments were wrongly deemed inadmissible.

  • February 18, 2026

    Equifax's Bid To Arbitrate 'Too Clever By Half,' Judge Says

    Equifax waived its right to arbitrate a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the income and employment verification market, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, calling the credit reporting agency's post-complaint addition of an arbitration provision in its user agreement a legal tactic "too clever by half."

  • February 18, 2026

    Liability Up First In ExxonMobil Suit Over Dutch Gas Phaseout

    An international tribunal will consider as an initial matter whether the Netherlands is liable in a politically sensitive dispute with a Belgian ExxonMobil unit over the phaseout of gas extraction in Europe's largest gas field before moving on to damages, according to an order made public on Wednesday.

  • February 18, 2026

    Eversheds Hires International Arbitration Partner In Bucharest

    Eversheds Sutherland has added to its cross‑border disputes capabilities in Europe, saying it has appointed a longtime international arbitration lawyer to work in the firm's Bucharest office.

  • February 18, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Freshfields

    Freshfields LLP scored a historic win in the world of international arbitration in December 2024, when it secured for Austrian construction company Strabag SE the first-ever investment treaty award against Germany, earning the law firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 17, 2026

    $500M Medical Glove Feud Must Be Arbitrated, Court Hears

    A medical gloves supplier is arguing that a Malaysian exporter must arbitrate its $500 million fraud and breach of contract suit after the two had a falling out stemming from a massive COVID-19-era pact aimed at supplying repackaged nitrile gloves to Walmart.

  • February 17, 2026

    No Need To Reopen Asbestos Suit, Insurance Exchange Says

    An insurance exchange for the trucking industry has told a California federal judge he does not need to reopen its case against a group of reinsurers as the parties battle whether to remove a "side-switching" arbitrator, explaining that a New York state court will likely rule soon on the issue.

  • February 17, 2026

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP helped Panama fend off a $2 billion claim asserted by a subsidiary of Canada-based First Quantum Minerals after the company's concession for one of the world's largest copper mines was ruled unconstitutional, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2026

    DC Circ. Backs Ukraine In $240M Russia Award Case

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday allowed Ukrainian power and gas companies to continue their pursuit of more than $250 million in combined arbitral awards for Russia's seizure of their Crimean businesses following the annexation of the region in 2014, with the three-judge panel rejecting Russia's immunity claims.

  • February 13, 2026

    Tennis Pro Wants Claim Revived Over Ban Due To Steroid Meat

    British professional tennis player Tara Moore is urging a New York federal court to dismiss a "fatally flawed" arbitral award shutting down her $20 million claim against the Women's Tennis Association over a four-year ban she says arose from ingesting steroid-tainted meat in Colombia.

Expert Analysis

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    Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

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    The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

  • Series

    Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths

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    Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.

  • Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing

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    Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

  • Court Rulings Warn Against Oversharing With Experts

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    Recent decisions, including in bad faith insurance cases, demonstrate that when settlement information documents are inadvertently shared with testifying experts, courts may see no recourse but to strike the entire report or disqualify the expert, says Richard Mason at MasonADR.

  • 9th Circ. Has Muddied Waters Of Article III Pleading Standard

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    District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • Series

    Competing In Modern Pentathlon Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Opening myself up to new experiences through competing in modern Olympic pentathlon has shrunk the appearance of my daily work annoyances and helps me improve my patience, manage crises better and remember that acquiring new skills requires working through your early mistakes, says attorney Mary Zoldak.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Teaching Yourself Legal Tech

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    New graduates often enter practice unfamiliar with even basic professional software, but budding lawyers can use on-the-job opportunities to both catch up on technological skills and explore the advanced legal and artificial intelligence tools that will open doors, says Alyssa Sones at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Navigating Potential Sources Of Tariff-Related Contract Risk

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    As the tariff landscape continues to shift, companies must anticipate potential friction points arising out of certain common contractual provisions, prepare to defend against breach claims, and respond to changing circumstances in contractual and treaty-based relationships, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • How AI May Reshape The Future Of Adjudication

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    As discussed at a recent panel at Texas A&M, artificial intelligence will not erase the human element of adjudication in the next 10 to 20 years, but it will drive efficiencies that spur private arbiters to experiment, lead public courts to evolve and force attorneys to adapt, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.

  • When Legal Advocacy Crosses The Line Into Incivility

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    As judges issue sanctions for courtroom incivility, and state bars advance formal discipline rules, trial lawyers must understand that the difference between zealous advocacy and unprofessionalism is not just a matter of tone; it's a marker of skill, credibility and potentially disciplinary exposure, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Prestige's Jurisprudential Legacy

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    The U.K. Supreme Court's recent denial of appeal ended Spain's decades-long quest to enforce an €855 million arbitral judgment against a London insurer, throwing into stark relief the increasingly complex relationship between arbitral sovereignty, foreign state immunity and the shifting terrain of post-Brexit private international law, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • Series

    Volunteering At Schools Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy.

  • Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

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    Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Appreciating Civil Procedure

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    If you’re like me, law school’s often complex and theoretical approach to teaching civil procedure may have contributed to an early struggle with the topic, but when seen from a practical perspective, new lawyers may find they enjoy mastering these rules, says Chloe Villagomez at Foster Garvey.

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