http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/16/2012 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp A U.S. jury has convicted a former Costa Rican insurance executive in a $485 million fraud scheme in which he lied to clients and investors about his company's financial stability. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202550933986 2012-05-02 00:00:00 The European Union parliament on Friday condemned Argentina's move to seize control of the YPF division of Spanish oil and gas company Repsol and demanded that the EU take action against Buenos Aires at the World Trade Organization as well as consider punishment for any country that attempts to nationalize a European company's assets. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202549764771 2012-04-23 00:00:00 The University of Houston Law Center has launched an academic center, billed as the first of its kind in the U.S., to increase understanding of Mexican law and legal institutions. "The creation of an independent research center on Mexican law at a U.S. university is long overdue," said law professor Stephen Zamora, who will head the center. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202548101225 2012-04-06 00:00:00 In a first for American law students, 30 students from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University are in Havana, spending their spring break studying U.S. export laws and controls. Assistant professor Juli Campagna said it's an opportunity for students to gain practical legal knowledge and to experience a very different culture. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202547718507 2012-04-03 00:00:00 A Florida federal judge has granted Chiquita Brands International's request for an interlocutory appeal challenging his refusal to dismiss all claims by Colombian families that the company was complicit in the murder of their relatives by paramilitary troops. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202547288979 2012-03-29 00:00:00 Federal prosecutors in Brazil have charged 17 oil company executives with "crimes against the environment" over an oil leak in the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202546536455 2012-03-22 00:00:00 Holland & Knight has announced it will open an office in Bogota, Colombia, becoming only the second major law firm with U.S. roots to establish a physical presence in the country. The firm expects an increased demand for work given the signing of the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement last fall and the planned expansion of the Panama Canal. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202544182083 2012-03-02 00:00:00 Two more Am Law 100 firms expanded their international horizons last week by moving forward with office openings in two of the world's fastest-growing economies. Hogan Lovells reports it will open a Rio de Janeiro office later this year, while Katten Muchin trotted out a former Chicago mayor as it opened in Shanghai last week. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202543682090 2012-02-28 00:00:00 What do you do if you're a multinational, and an $18 billion judgment against you has been affirmed on initial appeal? You try everything you can think of. On Friday morning, a New York federal judge denied Chevron's motion for attachment without prejudice; on Friday afternoon, the 2nd Circuit granted expedited briefing on Chevron's motion to restore the injunction on enforcement. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202537875442 2012-01-10 00:00:00 A year after opening an outpost in Venezuela, Littler Mendelson is again expanding in Latin America, this time by opening a pair of offices in Mexico. The labor and employment specialty firm will gain 24 lawyers from full-service Mexican firm Basham, Ringe & Correa on Jan. 2 and will be known locally as Littler, De la Vega y Conde. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202536407364 2011-12-22 00:00:00