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African Legal Awards Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year: Baker McKenzie

Full details of the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year category at the African Legal Awards
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Legal Week

African Legal Awards Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year: Baker McKenzie

Full details of the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year category at the African Legal Awards
2 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work in Knocking Out Kasowitz FCA Case

When lawyers from five mega-firms came together to fight a $90 billion reverse False Claims Act lawsuit, their mission was clear from the start: stop Kasowitz.
29 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cuomo Signs Tanker Avoidance Bill

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation allowing the state to establish guidelines for tanker avoidance zones after the Coast Guard last year proposed designating 10 new areas in the Hudson River where commercial oil vessels could anchor.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Debate Over Environmental Rights and State Constitutional Convention

In their Environmental Law column, Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan write: Both the New York state and New York City bar associations have come out in favor of a Constitutional Convention. Both would leave the Forever Wild clause untouched. However, they come to opposite positions on an environmental rights provision.
23 minute read

New York Law Journal

Comparison of Tri-State Area Recreational Use Statutes

In their Domestic Environmental Law column, Christine A. Fazio and Ethan I. Strell write: Beginning in the 1950s, states began adopting recreational use statutes, which shield landowners from tort liability when people engage in certain types of outdoor recreation on those lands, thus encouraging recreation. Although New York's, New Jersey's, and Connecticut's statutes are structured similarly, their application has been far from uniform.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Climate Change Defense Permitted in Pipeline Closure Case

 A judge in Minnesota will allow two defendants facing criminal charges of shutting down a pair of tar sands pipelines to use a "necessity…
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hurricane Harvey Raises Questions About Chemical Facility Safety

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November 30, has already been one of the most devastating on record.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

EPA Moves to Kill Clean Power Plan as Lawsuit Languishes in DC Circuit

The EPA issued a proposal Tuesday to roll back President Barack Obama's signature climate policy, immediately prompting threats of lawsuits from environmental groups and Democratic attorneys general. Meanwhile, the landmark legal battle over the rule may die a quiet death in the D.C. Circuit.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Environmental Lawyer Joins Former EPD Chief at Gilbert Harrell—and Other 'On the Move' News

Alston & Bird partner joins Steve Harvey's empire and The Robbins Firm adds another politico.
6 minute read

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