"We were dealing with people at DOJ that were, in fact, very smart and, in fact, very fair and open-minded," said Brodsky, who represented AIG executive Andrew Forster.

One of the Federal Trade Commission's own commissioners says he "went ballistic" when the FTC allowed both Google and Facebook to settle claims that they violated consumer privacy laws while flat-out denying the agency's allegations.

Women who worked for Wal-Mart waited 11 years for their discrimination case to wind its way through our legal system, winning rulings on class certification the entire way until the Supreme Court reversed. Now, the plaintiffs in Texas are told that they waited too long to bring a smaller class action. Gotcha!

After the Second Circuit torpedoed the system of sovereign restructuring in the Argentine bondholder litigation, it was invited to play sovereign bankruptcy court. Now what should it do?

As apparent evidence of fraud by the plaintiffs continues to mount, at least one observer is ready to draw conclusions.

In vacating the SEC's pioneering "Publish What You Pay" rule, the D.C. district court has put itself at odds with the EU—and history.

In an age of global law and finance, the Supreme Court's obsession with circuit splits is both quaint and dangerous.

Releasing the second set of outtakes from a documentary on its toxic tort litigation in Ecuador, Chevron claims that plaintiffs attorneys were planning to strong-arm the Ecuadorian court.