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Dispute Resolution
Stories and digests covering a variety of angles to ADR, whether on key issues of law or notable parties
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Global disputes
By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
Allen & Overy, Mayer Brown, Hausfeld and Appleby size up the key trends in cross-border litigation.
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CC's US arm wins defence for ING in class action suit
By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
Clifford Chance's (CC's) US litigation team has successfully defended ING Life Insurance in a class action suit in the Washington DC court of appeals. The privacy case, which had been brought on behalf of Washington DC government employees alleging that ING lost their private, sensitive financial and personal information, was dismissed last month (18 June) with the court ruling in favour of the insurer.
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BLP boosts finance and litigation with hire of partners from A&O and CC
By Legal Week | July 1, 2009
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has picked up two partners from the magic circle, with the firm set to bolster its finance and litigation practices. Clifford Chance (CC) litigation partner Nic Fletcher will join BLP's international arbitration practice while, as legalweek.com reported last week (26 June), Allen & Overy (A&O) leveraged finance partner Andrew Bamber is also set to join the firm.
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Fourth CC litigation partner joins Gibson Dunn in New York
By Legal Week | June 30, 2009
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has recruited another Clifford Chance (CC) partner in New York, a move which means the US firm has now taken on 11 litigation lawyers from CC during the past month. CC litigation partner George Schieren, who resigned from the US practice earlier this month, has joined CC's global head of litigation Mark Kirsch, litigation partner Joel Cohen and counsel Christopher Joralemon at Gibson Dunn, with the US firm confirming that it has also recruited seven associates from CC.
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Linklaters partner duo to head up China practice
By Legal Week | June 29, 2009
Linklaters has appointed a partner duo to head up its China practice, with Asia litigation head and Hong Kong managing partner Marc Harvey and Beijing head Celia Lam replacing Zili Shao in the role. Harvey and Lam take up their four-year terms with immediate effect after Shao was appointed as Asia managing partner in April.
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BLP makes A&O partner hire for finance practice
By Legal Week | June 26, 2009
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is to bolster its finance practice with the hire of high profile Allen & Overy (A&O) leveraged finance partner Andrew Bamber. Bamber is set to join BLP over the coming weeks after seven years as a partner in A&O's leveraged finance team. He came over to the magic circle firm in 2002 from Norton Rose as part of a team of four partners to leave the firm, including current leveraged finance chief Tim Polglase.
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Global disputes: Still waiting for the train to leave
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Over the last few months, international law firms have been gearing up for the long-awaited upturn in litigation, with a string of office openings and major hires. With the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) gaining in popularity in recent years, it is no surprise that the UK capital has been at the forefront of the action, alongside other major arbitration centres like New York and Paris. There have also been moves to bulk up on dispute resolution expertise in Asia and the Middle East.
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Global disputes: Headed in the right direction
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Much time and attention has been devoted to considering the relative minutiae of the conduct of proceedings in the Commercial Court since the establishment of the Commercial Court Long Trials Working Party over two years ago. The result is the now amended Commercial Court Guide - the Admiralty and Commercial Courts Guide (8th edition, 2009), published on 18 May, 2009.
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Global disputes: On the up
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
The air cargo price-fixing litigation looks promising from a plaintiffs lawyer's perspective. Since US and European antitrust authorities raided the offices of more than a dozen airlines in February 2006, settlements and fines have been racking up. The US Department of Justice has levied more than $1.6bn (£1bn) in fines against 15 airlines and air cargo companies. In 2006, Deutsche Lufthansa settled claims from a class of US plaintiffs for $85m (£54m). Class actions against other airlines are pending in the US and Australia.
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Global disputes: The unknown truth
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, speaking at a press briefing in 2002, famously said: "As we know, there are known knowns: there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
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