Michael D Goldhaber

January 07, 2014 | The American Lawyer

The 43 litigation partners at Debevoise produced two $25 billion results, a pair of trial defense wins worth $3.5 billion apiece, and the biggest investor-state award in arbitration history. No other firm can match their record for our contest.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

13 minute read

January 02, 2014 | The American Lawyer

In the six years since Covington last appeared as a finalist in this contest, its litigation group has grown a whopping 40 percent. Most importantly, it shed its image as a cerebral firm that won't climb into the trenches.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

December 18, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron is grounded in fraud. So who cares if Canada's courts aren't hung up on corporate formalities?

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read

November 29, 2013 | New York Law Journal

"Steven Donziger has shamed our profession," Randy Mastro said twice on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, capping six weeks of trial in Chevron Corp.'s fraud case against Donziger and his Ecuadorian clients.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

November 26, 2013 | The American Lawyer

"Steven Donziger has shamed our profession," Gibson Dunn's Randy Mastro said Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, capping six weeks of trial in Chevron's fraud case against Donziger and his Ecuadorian clients.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

November 25, 2013 | National Law Journal

John Keker of Keker & Van Nest once predicted that Steven Donziger would be "tethered to a stick like a goat" when he finally took the stand to face claims that he orchestrated a multibillion-dollar fraud against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador. In a New York federal courtroom last week, Chevron began its grilling.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

November 20, 2013 | The American Lawyer

"It doesn't mean I haven't committed inconsequential errors along the way," attorney Steven Donziger said on the stand in Chevron's fraud and racketeering case alleging a multibillion-dollar Amazon shakedown.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

7 minute read

November 18, 2013 | The American Lawyer

John Keker of Keker & Van Nest once predicted that Steven Donziger would be "tethered to a stick like a goat" when he finally took the stand to face claims that he orchestrated a multibillion-dollar fraud against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador. On Monday, Chevron began its grilling.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

November 10, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Chevron's lawyers at Gibson Dunn kept attacking the integrity of former Ecuadorian judge Nicolas Zambrano, while the oil company's opponents tried to rehabilitate their star witness.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

6 minute read

November 05, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Gibson Dunn's Randy Mastro vowed earlier to give "a big New York welcome" to Judge Nicolas Zambrano of Ecuador, who denies that Steven Donziger or his Ecuadorian team ghostwrote the $19 billion tort judgment issued in his name against Chevron. On Tuesday Mastro delivered on his promise.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read