Michael D Goldhaber

September 23, 2014 | Litigation Daily

A great trial lawyer delivers a classic closing, only to be upstaged by the shy man who pulled him into the case.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

9 minute read

September 21, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Paul Barrett's fine new book on Chevron in Ecuador has been called lopsided. Let's take a closer look.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

11 minute read

September 15, 2014 | Litigation Daily

Dutch courts like arbitration winners, and the Dutch don't like Russia. But if you're a former superpower staring down the barrel at a $50 billion award, you take your chances and look for your best argument.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

September 01, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Hit by a historic judgment in Ecuador, Chevron used cloak and dagger to expose a historic fraud.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

16 minute read

August 27, 2014 | The American Lawyer

This year the firm has seen a series of high-profile litigation losses.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read

August 27, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Ten years after Russia seized oil giant Yukos, arbitrators found it liable for a record sum. The inside story of Shearman & Sterling's successful plan.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

15 minute read

August 25, 2014 | National Law Journal

A shy, misplaced historian named Gary Osen assembled much of the evidence in the world's first terrorism finance trial.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

3 minute read

August 20, 2014 | The American Lawyer

Through dogged detective work, the oil giant's lawyers pieced together the clues that pointed to fraud in an Ecuadorean court.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

18 minute read

August 17, 2014 | Law.com

As Israeli-Palestinian violence swirls anew, a jury judges the terror crimes of old.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

12 minute read

August 13, 2014 | The American Lawyer

In the past six months Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton litigators have lost a string of historic cases. Powerful entities routinely ask Cleary to push the envelope in international law. Lately it hasn't worked out well.

By Michael D. Goldhaber

5 minute read