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May 02, 2000 |

Names Behind the News

Who's coming and going at firms across the country.
4 minute read
October 17, 2013 |

Asking Employees for Social Media Credentials to Fight Cybercrime May Backfire

Not so fast: Asking employees to hand over social media account information is not the best way to combat cyberattacks.
6 minute read
August 09, 2010 |

Twin Cities floating along on an even keel

With some of the country's largest corporations based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., there is plenty of work to keep lawyers busy. The area is home to Fortune 500 companies including Target Corp., U.S. Bancorp, Xcel Energy Inc., Ameriprise Financial Inc. and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Other major corporations maintain sizeable offices in the Twin Cities.
3 minute read
July 17, 2001 |

Keeping Track of Electronic Evidence Discovery

It's no secret that trials often turn on the bits and bytes floating around computers and networks. Lawyers get paid to keep on top of legal developments, not the latest technological developments. How can they keep up with all the changes afoot in electronic evidence discovery? Luckily, there are a wide variety of services and forensic tools for mining data that lawyers can use.
4 minute read
February 18, 2010 |

Inside Lyondell Bankruptcy's Texas-Sized Legal Bills

Houston-based Lyondell Chemical is hoping that its yearlong Chapter 11 case is nearly over, after reaching a $450 million settlement with creditors this week. The Am Law Daily did some docket-digging to gauge law firm profits stemming from the pharmaceutical giant's bankruptcy court odyssey. So far, Cadwalader has secured itself the biggest slice of the pie.
4 minute read
August 16, 2004 |

Cost, Scale of E-Discovery Spawn Niche Practices

Leigh [email protected] YORK-It can buckle the knees of the mightiest opponents, can end up costing millions to deal with and can frustrate a case into premature settlement. Electronic discovery-or e-discovery-has become much more complicated than simply pulling deleted e-mail messages off a hard drive.
6 minute read
August 02, 2004 |

The surging evolution of e-discovery

Electronic discovery—or e-discovery—has become much more complicated than simply pulling deleted e-mail messages off a hard drive. But with corporations that stay in the game, there is good news, at least for a growing number of tech-savvy niche practices, whose sole job in high-dollar cases is to help discern relevant electronic information from rubbish.
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Esther Kiobel, individually and on behalf of her late husband, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, 06-4800-cv
Publication Date: 2010-09-20
Practice Area: Torts
Industry:
Court: Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Judge: Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Cabranes, C.JJ
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Paul L. Hoffman, Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, LLP, Venice, CA (Stephen A. Whinston, Carey R. D?Avino, Keino R. Robinson, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Jeffrey J. Keyes, Briggs and Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, MN (Mark Girouard, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for amici curiae International Law Professors in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae International Law Scholars Cherif Bassiouni, et al. in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants. Judith Brown Chomsky (Jennifer M. Green, on the brief), Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY (Marcos Simons, Richard Herz, Earthrights International, Washington, DC, on the brief), for amici curiae Wiwa Plaintiffs in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
For defendant: Rowan D. Wilson (Rory O. Millson, Thomas G. Rafferty, Michael T. Reynolds, on the brief), Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
Case number: 06-4800-cv

Cite as: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 06-4800-cv, NYLJ 1202472235126, at *1a,2a (2d Cir., Decided September 17, 2010)Before: Jacobs, Ch.J, Leval, and Ca

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