Mexico has come out on top of a $219 million dispute with two U.S.-based investment funds after the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tossed their claims concerning a debt that a Mexican broadcaster defaulted on during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mexico has come out on top of a $219 million dispute with two U.S.-based investment funds after the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes tossed their claims concerning a debt that a Mexican broadcaster defaulted on during the coronavirus pandemic.
Spain will continue fighting the enforcement of hundreds of millions of euros worth of arbitral awards against it despite the U.S. Supreme Court denying its certiorari bid in a series of parallel cases, focusing on issues raised by the Trump administration in those cases.
Ukrainian energy supplier DTEK Krymenergo urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday to enforce a $219 million arbitral award against Russia, arguing that the country is improperly repackaging a treaty interpretation claim that the D.C. Circuit has already rejected.
Passengers who claim a former Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. crew member secretly filmed them, including children, while they undressed urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to uphold a ruling that their case cannot be forced into arbitration.
Litigation funder Innsworth Capital has dropped its arbitration claim against Walter Merricks over his decision to settle the Mastercard swipe fees case for £200 million ($270 million), clearing the way for compensation to be distributed to consumers.
Being a sommelier has quietly shaped how I practice law by changing the way I think, communicate and connect with people, and offers a constant reminder that expertise is about making your knowledge useful and accessible to others, says Kara Du at Sheppard.
How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.
Three Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's response to their request that the firm disclose details of its pro bono arrangement with the Trump administration, saying the firm's "three sentence letter essentially saying 'nothing to see here'" is "not going to cut it."
The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.
A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.
Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP was ordered on Thursday to hand over a $3.6 million retainer it was paid to defend a client against criminal and civil fraud charges, with the Second Circuit upholding a ruling that the funds were part of an asset freeze order issued in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case.
A Washington state court granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday in a school fundraising company's lawsuit accusing its former general counsel of taking control of its social media accounts and allegedly replacing its LinkedIn photo with a manipulated image of its president in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
A former Girardi Keese attorney was sentenced to one day time-served and two years of probation Thursday for staying quiet and failing to report disgraced plaintiff's attorney Tom Girardi's theft of millions of settlement dollars owed to Lion Air Flight 620 plane crash victims.
The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday it's offering to waive the bar exam requirement for first-time applicants who were unable to take the test last week due to an abrupt cancellation driven by technical issues at the Yakima Convention Center where it was scheduled to be administered.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding presidential control over those exercising executive power, suggests that courts may be receptive to arguments challenging the constitutional foundations of the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, says Daniel Passeser at Wiggin.
