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Managing Legal Risk: A Case Study in the New Middle East

Israeli tech innovation and the Emirati business platform create enticing opportunities; international arbitration and third-party funding can help navigate the risks.
11 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: This Debevoise Duo Fended Off a $650M Arbitration Claim For the Republic of Iraq

Catherine Amirfar and Ina Popova of Debevoise & Plimpton on Monday secured a complete defense win in a bilateral investment treaty arbitration brought by Agility Public Warehousing Company.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Group Move Prompts Two Different Narratives From Crowell and Squire

The developments brought into plain view how differently law firms seek to portray lateral exits and arrivals.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Law Firm Helps Burundian Asylum Seeker End 5-Year Flight From Tyranny: A Q&A With Sidley's David Sillers

Texas Lawyer spoke with Sidley Austin attorney David Sillers about a pro bono case that secured permanent asylum for a Burundian journalist and Red Cross employee who had been tortured and marked for death.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dechert to Be Subpoenaed in Case Over Detained Jordanian Lawyer's Human Rights Abuse Allegations

The order, which was issued Monday and docketed with the court Tuesday, stems from legal proceedings currently unfolding in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
4 minute read

Law.com

How I Made Partner: Foley Hoag's Tafadzwa Pasipanodya

"I fully expected and looked forward to being in a position of being able to help others more as a partner, but I hadn't realized how much help I would need."
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Veteran's Case Allows U.S. High Court to Rethink Foreign Affairs Powers

Congressional foreign affairs powers have slowly waned and judicial checks been replaced by a jurisprudence of judicial deference. Recent events, however, may indicate a growing appetite for change to this equilibrium.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

How Miami, Texas Lawyers Won $70M on Behalf of USS Cole Sailors Killed in Yemen

"You have to have the unquenching desire and motivation to see things through to the end. Sometimes the end is a very, very long path, but hopefully it pays off," said Adam Hall of Hall, Lamb, Hall & Leto in Miami.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

More Big Law Firms Respond as the Coronavirus Continues to Spread Globally

The virus, officially known as COVID-19, has now spread to 47 countries and has infected at least 82,000 people.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Disbarred Lawyer Once Fled African Indictment and Was Removed From the Bench 

When Melvin T. Johnson of Lithonia's Action Johnson law firm was removed as Lithonia's chief municipal court judge for repeatedly failing to complete state-required judicial training, he was facing theft, economic sabotage and conspiracy charges in Liberia associated with his role as legal adviser to the Liberia Airport Authority.
4 minute read

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