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Corporate Counsel

Strong Reactions After BP Debarment Lifted

BP plc, the giant oil company responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is once again free to bid on new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Gibson Dunn Lodges $32 Million Fee Request in Chevron Case

The request—made two weeks after Chevron scored its biggest win yet in the case—represents just a tiny fraction of Chevron's legal costs in its battle with Steven Donziger and his Amazon clients.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan combines with London-based Arbis to enhance energy practices

Mark Wasserman, managing partner of Sutherland Asbill, said the deal is structured as a combination, and the firms will maintain two partnerships.
2 minute read

Law.com

Sutherland to Join Forces with London Boutique

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan is venturing into the London legal market through a combination with a firm specialized in energy commodities trading law. Arbis is a 10-lawyer London boutique with a small office in Geneva—another energy trading hotspot.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Oil and Gas Ass'n v. U.S. Forest Serv., PICS Case No. 14-0278 (W.D. Pa. Feb. 21, 2014) Hornak, J. (14 pages).

By | March 18, 2014
Environmental Review • Mineral and Gas Interests • Drilling Restrictions
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Jersey Bd. of Public Utilities v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n, PICS Case No. 14-0313 (3d Cir. Feb. 20, 2014) Rendell, J. (87 pages).

By | March 18, 2014
Public Utilities • Tariffs • Energy Resources Regulation • FERC
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Will Robinson Township Lead to New York-Style Land Use Control Suits?

On Dec. 19, 2013, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, No. 63 MAP 2012 (Pa. 2013), striking down a number of provisions in Pennsylvania's Act 13, an overhaul of the Oil and Gas Act that had established statewide uniform zoning standards for oil and gas exploration and development purposes
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Legal Department of the Year: Exelon Corp.

When Exelon Corp. absorbed Constellation Energy Group Inc. in 2012, the legal department spread word of its values with Constellation colleagues whose department had lacked internal diversity or pro bono programs.
5 minute read

The Recorder

San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Jewell

By | March 14, 2014
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Business Not Optimistic on Tax Reform in 2014

Businesses think the forecast for tax reform in Congress this year is murky, according to an annual survey released today from Miller & Chevalier and the National Foreign Trade Council. Not one of the 129 business tax executives who responded to the 2014 Tax Policy Forecast Survey predicted tax reform would be enacted in 2014, and three out of four believe that there will be little or no tax legislation this year.
3 minute read

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