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The Middle East Legal Awards 2020: Who Won What and Why

Winning law firms included Al Tamimi & Company, Baker McKenzie and Fichte & Co Legal, but what made them victorious?
13 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Point of Entry: Jones Walker Attorneys Discuss Oil and Gas Cybersecurity Survey Results

Texas Lawyer spoke recently with the two attorneys about Jones Walker's findings in its 2020 Midstream Oil and Gas Cybersecurity Survey, which examined cybersecurity preparedness in independent North America-based midstream oil and gas companies.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Financial Sector Initiatives to Combat Climate Change Gather Momentum

In September, the Market Risk Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a significant, yet perhaps under-publicized, report titled "Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System."
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Women, Influence & Power in Law 2020: Elizabeth D. (Liz) Moore

When Moore went to work for the utility giant fresh out of law school, "It just didn't feel very welcoming," she recalls. "At that time, the law department at Con Edison was not terribly diverse. It was primarily a bastion of white men."
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chevron, Energy Companies Say Delaware AG's Climate Change Case Is a Federal Issue

Decisions about fossil fuels on a global scale should be left to the federal government to make through policy and international negotiations, lawyers for Chevron wrote in a brief.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Some Problems With Superfund Settlement Premiums

When a party "cashes out" of its liability to the government under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidance in place since 1988 the settling party typically pays a premium over what would otherwise be its equitable share.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Think Energy and Pets: Who Gets the Big Bucks in Florida General Counsel Ranks?

The general counsel at NextEra Energy and Chewy collected the top dollars in different categories in last year based on proxy statements filed by large publicly traded companies.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Following Forward-Looking Energy Clients, Big Law Firms Add Hydrogen Practices

Baker Botts, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and K&L Gates have each launched multidisciplinary hydrogen and related practices to serve their energy sector clients.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Hire Up: Federal Environment & Energy Vets Find New Homes

Both Venable and Holland & Knight added former aides to lawmakers in the House and Senate with energy committee experience, while Hunton Andrews Kurth hired the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent general counsel.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Malpractice Lawsuit Against Wachtell

A three-judge panel agreed that the lawsuit, which targeted Wachtell with allegations of "unusual" contracts with two investment banks hired to help ward off Icahn's move, failed to make out a case that the New York-based firm had been negligent in its professional representation.
3 minute read

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