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Judge Dismisses Kickback-Related Suit Against Swiss Bank

A New York state judge has dismissed a $350 million lawsuit filed by Saudi Arabian citizens against a private Swiss bank that used a New York correspondent bank to receive funds allegedly connected to an extensive bribery scheme.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

EnergyBuzz: Bidding on Pemex Joint Ventures

Successfully navigating this new landscape will require a firm understanding of the nuances of this legal framework and its associated bidding system.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Winning Women: Macey Reasoner Stokes

"She had stellar academics: summa cum laude at Yale," former Chief Justice Tom Phillips said about his former law clerk, Macey Reasoner Stokes.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Recycle, Renew, Refresh

Google's head of renewable energy and alternative investments talks about her job.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

EnergyBuzz: Bidding on Pemex Joint Ventures

Successfully navigating this new landscape will require a firm understanding of the nuances of this legal framework and its associated bidding system.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices to Eye Estoppel by Deed in Oil and Gas Cases

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether a lease entitles an oil and gas company to a 62-acre property, despite the fact that the lease was entered into when the landowners only had title to half the property and payment only covered 31 acres.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Class Certification Vacated in Methane Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that five class actions in which plaintiffs allege that they have been deprived of royalty payments for the production of coalbed methane gas should not have been certified.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

BP Squelches False Claims Act Suit Over Oil Platform

"The genesis of this suit is a disgruntled layman's speculation about complex laws and engineering, abetted by ideologues," wrote a Houston federal judge about the purported whistleblower suit.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

EnergyBuzz: Mexico's Energy Reform to Tackle Declining Production

The decline is commonly attributed to insufficient operational capabilities and capital of the state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) which prevents it from producing from the country's deepwater and shale resources.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Harvard, UCLA Plan Annual Food Law Conferences

Harvard Law School and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law each last year launched programs centered on food law and policy. Now they plan to collaborate on a series of annual conferences that will bring together scholars and policymakers to examine legal questions having to do with food.
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