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By Jack Womack | January 12, 2024
Attention is increasingly turning to the role of lawyers in the historic injustice—the tactics and tone they employed when acting for the Post Office.
7 minute read
By Jack Womack | January 9, 2024
An ITV drama has led to renewed scrutiny of the scandal, and the role played by lawyers and firms.
9 minute read
By Jennigay Coetzer | January 4, 2024
The Republic has been ordered to pay the claimant $300,000 nominal compensation, ending a two-decade-long dispute which saw Herbert Smith Freehills co-counsel on the matter.
2 minute read
By Alfred Olufemi | January 2, 2024
Nigeria's consumer protection agency will now close all investigations and withdraw pending criminal charges against the company.
2 minute read
By Michael Redman, Burford Capital | December 14, 2023
Increasingly we are seeing an increase in recovery activity against judgment debtors that are choosing not to pay, as opposed to those who simply don't have the money, says Burford Capital's London head.
6 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | December 14, 2023
Arbitrators must decide whether treasure hunters have rights to a potential bounty of gold, silver and gems from a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena more than three centuries ago.
3 minute read
By Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky | December 13, 2023
International arbitrations often involve large amounts of money concerning, on occasion, indications of illegality, including criminal activity. What arbitrators can and should do when they have some awareness of such illegal activity has recently become the subject of commentaries and analyses.
8 minute read
By Fiona Cain and Kayley Rousell | December 12, 2023
The UK is keen to further enhance what is already a leading international arbitration forum.
5 minute read
By Davis Williams, Jones Walker | November 28, 2023
The proposed reforms, a fine-tuning of the 27-year-old arbitration law that has not been updated since its original passing, are intended to improve efficiency, lower costs, boost economic growth and ensure the U.K. remains a state-of-the-art seat of arbitration.
5 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | November 27, 2023
The exits follow the Paris office's shift towards life sciences, tech, private assets and private capital, as arbitration teams across the industry continue to be conflicted out of lucrative cases.
2 minute read
By Kari A. Metzger | May 6, 2024
Regardless of why the case gets referred to nonbinding arbitration, the referral adds an additional layer of preparation and expense to the litigation process. As such, it makes sense for lawyers to use this opportunity to develop the strengths and weaknesses of their case and posture it for resolution.
8 minute read
By Special to The Legal/Stradley Ronon | May 3, 2024
Lee Rosengard, a groundbreaking ADR practitioner and longtime Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner, passed away unexpectedly on April 30. He was 72.
3 minute read
By David N. Cinotti | May 1, 2024
"A judgment-debtor should reasonably expect to be haled into court to satisfy a judgment where it has assets," writes David N. Cinotti of Pashman Stein Walder Hayden.
10 minute read
By Barry Howard | April 29, 2024
All types of construction cases are often well-suited to mediation. If you do plan to mediate, prepare your client for what will happen at the mediation and make sure that your client has a realistic evaluation of the case and what his or her exposure is, beforehand.
8 minute read
By Patrick R. Kingsley | April 26, 2024
Clients have inserted arbitration provisions to avoid the expensive trappings of litigation, but their counsel sometimes tries to remake arbitration in the familiar image of litigation. Fortunately, there is a tool to keep this trend in check: the chess clock. (Pun intended)
7 minute read
By Larry P. Schiffer | April 25, 2024
Much like judges, mediation purists believe that a good mediator can manage any dispute because mediation skills, like judicial skills, apply across every type of dispute in every type of industry.
9 minute read
By Noah J. Hanft and Lorraine D. Mandel | April 24, 2024
Arbitration has evolved significantly in the last decade. What general counsel once viewed skeptically has now become the norm and an effective method to resolve disputes. Noah Hanft, arbitrator and mediator with FedArb, along with co-author Lorraine Mandel, also an arbitrator and former general counsel, will walk readers through the many historic concerns of arbitration and update for its current approach.
8 minute read
By Rhys Dipshan | April 23, 2024
The rules cover a range of issues, including the protection of proprietary training data and AI models, as well as the knowledge needed to arbitrate disputes concerning AI software.
3 minute read
By Cheryl Miller | April 23, 2024
SB 940 by Orange County Democrat Sen. Tom Umberg would place new restrictions on neutrals handling consumer claims
4 minute read
By Alexander Lugo | April 23, 2024
After topping New York in cases in 2021, the numbers have dipped slightly over the past two years. But law firms in the region are committed to the practice.
6 minute read
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