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By Jessica Seah | January 19, 2024
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Eric Chow & Co have both appointed new corporate partners.
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By Alex D'Elia | January 17, 2024
A criminal court in Madrid ruled that the arbitrator in an international contract dispute between Malaysia and descendants of the last Sultan of Sulu disobeyed orders from the court to end the proceedings before he issued a final award.
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By Jack Womack | January 16, 2024
The proposed legislation could bypass a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that litigation funding agreements were unenforceable in competition cases.
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By Alfred Olufemi | January 15, 2024
'As a partner of an international firm, you are constantly confronted with issues of conflicts of interest,' Michael Bühler said.
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By Jack Womack | January 12, 2024
Attention is increasingly turning to the role of lawyers in the historic injustice—the tactics and tone they employed when acting for the Post Office.
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By Jack Womack | January 9, 2024
An ITV drama has led to renewed scrutiny of the scandal, and the role played by lawyers and firms.
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By Jennigay Coetzer | January 4, 2024
The Republic has been ordered to pay the claimant $300,000 nominal compensation, ending a two-decade-long dispute which saw Herbert Smith Freehills co-counsel on the matter.
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By Alfred Olufemi | January 2, 2024
Nigeria's consumer protection agency will now close all investigations and withdraw pending criminal charges against the company.
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By Michael Redman, Burford Capital | December 14, 2023
Increasingly we are seeing an increase in recovery activity against judgment debtors that are choosing not to pay, as opposed to those who simply don't have the money, says Burford Capital's London head.
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By Amy Guthrie | December 14, 2023
Arbitrators must decide whether treasure hunters have rights to a potential bounty of gold, silver and gems from a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Cartagena more than three centuries ago.
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By Alex Anteau | April 8, 2024
"Appellants would like the Court to believe this is simply an arbitration in which a party did not get all the attorney fees he wanted," the appellees wrote in their reply brief. "It is actually an extraordinary case in which an arbitrator not only slashed attorney fees dramatically but did a 180-degree reversal of his proper rulings."
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By Brian Lee | April 8, 2024
Chief Judge Rowan Wilson named Justices Doris Gonzalez and Joseph Lamendola, state Supreme Court judges in Westchester and Onondaga counties, respectively, to co-lead the expert panel of judges, court staff, lawyers, ADR practitioners and academics.
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By John M. Delehanty | April 4, 2024
The purpose of this article is to set out guidelines for counsel and their clients to prepare an informative and productive mediation statement.
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By Gregory J. Parent | April 2, 2024
Mediators can use these strategies help facilitate better outcomes for all, writes Gregory J. Parent of Miles Mediation.
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By Emily Cousins | March 29, 2024
Bridgewater argues an arbitration is not a civil action, and a petition for bill of discovery is unavailable as a matter of law. It also filed motions in Connecticut District Court to compel the claims to arbitration.
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By Rich Lee | March 29, 2024
Our conversation highlighted three very different angles—how the mindsets of litigators and parties affect a matter, how insurance companies use ADR, and how a new effort to build gender diversity is faring. We also discussed the challenges facing arbitration and the risks they bring to this critical service.
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By Colleen Murphy | March 25, 2024
"An initial scan of Section 27 reveals a series of difficult to decipher and contradictory sentences contained in a single arbitration clause," Judge Morris G. Smith said in his written opinion for the court. "The clause contains 887 words in thirty-six unbroken lines. A closer reading shows that the run-on paragraph harbors within it mutually inconsistent means for dispute resolution."
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By Adolfo Pesquera | March 25, 2024
The parties have been in litigation for nearly a decade.
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By Isaac M. Marcushamer | March 22, 2024
I was shocked to learn that not only is there a robust and growing organic system of Jewish arbitral bodies, but they provide a true alternative to the court system. Indeed, there are professional advocates in the system (they look and sound like rabbis, and in fact, many of them are) who bridge the gap between secular and Jewish law.
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By Andrew Denney | March 19, 2024
Elizabeth Emerson retired from the bench earlier this year after serving for 28 years in the judiciary, the last few as a justice on the Appellate Term for New York's Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts.
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