Michael D Goldhaber

June 04, 2012 | The American Lawyer

The Ecuadorian plaintiffs who are trying to collect the $18 billion oil pollution verdict that they won against Chevron in their home country have filed their first enforcement action—in Canada. But the Canadian action could be overtaken by other legal moves in the U.S., Europe, and possibly even Ecuador itself.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

October 23, 2013 | The American Lawyer

In live testimony on Wednesday, a former Ecuadorian judge in the $19 billion Amazon pollution case against Chevron told a sordid tale of bribes solicited and won.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

March 04, 2013 | The American Lawyer

Complaining that they're being overwhelmed by Chevron's army of litigators, the plaintiffs lawyers accused of using Ecuador's courts to defraud the oil giant are asking a U.S. judge to lift the siege. Chevron, meanwhile, is piling on even more evidence that the court that issued a $19 billion judgment against the company is filthy with corruption.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

August 17, 2012 | Law.com

Chilean Judge Karen Atala lost custody of her three young daughters after a court held that, by living as a lesbian, Atala had put her own interests before those of her children. Working pro bono, Morrison & Foerster took on the case, which culminated in an Inter-American Court ruling that Chile violated Atala's rights to equality and privacy.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

January 27, 2012 | The American Lawyer

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

March 28, 2012 | The American Lawyer

By Michael D. Goldhaber

4 minute read

May 21, 2012 | National Law Journal

The U.S. courts seem on the verge of abandoning their global oversight of corporate human rights offenses. Will Canada again step into the breach?

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

October 14, 2013 | National Law Journal

Twenty years of litigation. A $19 billion judgment. Sixty law firms and 2000 legal professionals — and that's just on one side. Chevron in Ecuador can plausibly claim to be the messiest case since Jarndyce sued Jarndyce.

By Michael D. Goldhaber / The Litigation Daily

6 minute read

May 17, 2012 | Daily Report Online

By the numbers, Joseph Tate may be the luckiest lateral of the past 25 years. When Tate moved to Dechert from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in 1991, he was moving from one top-five Philadelphia firm to another. As it turned out, he was also moving from the firm that dropped the most ranks by size in the past quarter-century to the one that gained the most ranks in profits per partner among firms on the original Am Law 100 list (for fiscal 1986).

By Michael D. Goldhaber

12 minute read

April 01, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

Two countries seem to represent the best bets for investors.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read