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  • March 27, 2025

    FCPA 'Purgatory' Frustrates White Collar Bar, Anxious Clients

    An abrupt pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement has created tension between clients eager to resolve investigations and their attorneys, who are having trouble reaching decision-makers at the U.S. Department of Justice and are more inclined to await further guidance from the government.

  • March 26, 2025

    Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.

  • March 26, 2025

    Supreme Court Skeptical Of Nixing FCC Subsidy Fund

    Conservative justices took aim Wednesday at rising costs in the country's multibillion-dollar phone and broadband subsidy system, questioning whether lawmakers put meaningful limits on the program's growth, but some argued the fund works just like others created by Congress that rely on revenues from industry fees.

  • March 26, 2025

    Resort Developer Asks To Unwind Pre-Ch. 11 Equity Deal

    California resort developer SilverRock Development Co. filed an adversary complaint in its Chapter 11 case Tuesday asking a Delaware court to unwind a pre-bankruptcy securitization transaction that converted preferred shares into secured debt.

  • March 26, 2025

    Soured Colo. Housing Partnership Spawns Another Suit

    A Colorado affordable housing project undermined by a trio of investors' soured partnership generated yet another lawsuit filed by an original investor alleging a partner brought on later intentionally tanked the project out of "seething vindictiveness."

  • March 26, 2025

    Ex-GE Exec Gets 7 Years For Fraud In $1B Angola Energy Deal

    A Manhattan federal judge hit a former GE Power executive with seven years in prison Wednesday, after a jury convicted him of forgery and taking a $5 million kickback while working on a $1.1 billion deal in his native Angola.

  • March 25, 2025

    Baltimore Bridge Collapse: One Year Later

    Federal accident investigators' recent determination that Maryland could've done more to protect Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge from a devastating collapse may complicate the sprawling legal battle over liability and damages in the year since a cargo ship struck the bridge and crippled a major East Coast transportation hub.

  • March 25, 2025

    Venezuelan Law Invalidates $2B Bonds, PDVSA Argues

    Venezuela's state-owned oil company is fighting back against efforts by creditors to enforce some $2 billion in defaulted bonds, dismissing as "illogical" the creditors' argument that the underlying bond documents were exempt from a requirement for National Assembly approval.

  • March 25, 2025

    Canadian Miner Faces Deadline Over $10M Romania Award

    A cash-strapped Canadian mining company is nearing a deadline to put up security for an approximately $10 million costs award issued to Romania after the country prevailed in the company's $4.4 billion arbitration over a blocked gold and silver mining project.

  • March 25, 2025

    Contractor Drops $1.1M Bond Dispute Against Liberty Mutual

    A Delaware-based plumbing and HVAC company has withdrawn its federal suit claiming that a general contractor and Liberty Mutual improperly withheld $1.1 million in payments for work the company completed on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers elementary school project.

  • March 25, 2025

    Nelson Mullins Welcomes Alt Energy Transactions Atty In NY

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is bringing a Clean Energy Counsel attorney to its New York office, touting his more than three decades of experience with distributed and utility-scale energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and Latin America, especially in renewable and alternative energy finance and development.

  • March 24, 2025

    Canadian Miner Now Seeks $1B From Mexico Over Project

    A Canadian mining company has quintupled the amount it's seeking in damages from Mexico in arbitration over the loss of its precious metals project, saying it now wants $1 billion due to the country's breach of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  • March 24, 2025

    FINRA Fines Pa. Broker-Dealer $1M Over Muni Bond Sales

    A Pittsburgh-based brokerage has agreed to penalties and disgorgement totaling over $1 million to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims it got undue order priority for certain new municipal bond orders by failing to mention those orders were for its own dealer account.

  • March 24, 2025

    Investor Says It Was Conned Out Of $42M In Real Estate Deals

    A Las Vegas investment company alleged that four businessmen fleeced it out of more than $42 million by convincing the company to invest in a Washington real estate project that collapsed when the developer was convicted of rape and also luring the firm into another bad deal under false promises.

  • March 22, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Non-Delegation & Clean Air Fights

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to hear arguments in a dispute that could revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle and trigger a regulatory power shift. 

  • March 21, 2025

    Texas Regulator Says Scammers Recruited Game Developers

    The Texas State Securities Board entered an emergency cease-and-desist order to stop offers of an allegedly fraudulent blockchain token called Apertum, saying its creators successfully recruited developers behind "Grand Theft Auto V" to launch a new game requiring the purchase of the token.

  • March 21, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant CLO Reconsidering Dismissal Of Paul Weiss

    A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing bribery charges indicated Friday that he may reconsider his decision to fire Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP as his trial counsel, now that President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order limiting the firm's access to federal buildings and officials.

  • March 21, 2025

    DOJ Ends Glencore Monitorships Under Bribery Deal Early

    The U.S. Department of Justice has ended early two monitorships imposed as part of mining giant Glencore's 2022 bribery and market manipulation case settlement, in the wake of President Donald Trump's directive pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

  • March 21, 2025

    Apollo, BP Ink $1B Deal For Stake In European Gas Pipeline

    BP has agreed to sell a 25% noncontrolling stake in a BP entity invested in the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline, or TANAP, to funds managed by Apollo Global Management for $1 billion, the companies said Friday.

  • March 20, 2025

    Senate Panel To Weigh NTIA Nom Next Week

    A U.S. Senate panel next week will consider President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce branch that oversees federal spectrum policy.

  • March 20, 2025

    FCC Eases Regs To Hasten Switch From Copper Lines

    The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday waived several longstanding rules in an effort to clear what FCC Chair Brendan Carr characterized as "red tape" delaying telecoms from putting legacy copper lines out to pasture.

  • March 20, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant CLO Seeks Trial Delay After Hiring New Counsel

    After hiring new trial counsel Wednesday, a former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing bribery charges asked a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday for an adjournment of the April 7 trial date so his new attorney can review the evidence and the history of the case, which has been pending for more than six years.

  • March 19, 2025

    Broadband Pole Upgrades Depend On States, Pew Says

    States need to make sure their pole attachment process is running smoothly, or it could be the cause for a lot of broadband deployment holdups, according to a new study released by Pew Charitable Trusts.

  • March 19, 2025

    NY DOT Says Feds' Bid To Kill Congestion Pricing Is 'Unlawful'

    The New York State Department of Transportation told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that the Trump administration's efforts to kill New York City's congestion pricing program unlawfully interfere with the Empire State's authority to implement state law and protect New Yorkers' health and welfare.

  • March 19, 2025

    Bondholders Say $2B Venezuelan Bond Contracts Are Valid

    The holders of approximately $2 billion in defaulted bonds issued by Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA have urged a New York federal court to enforce their contracts with PDVSA, saying the country hasn't shown how its domestic law makes the bonds invalid.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Series

    Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

  • 5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates

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    In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.

  • Opinion

    Legal Personhood Can Give Natural Entities Their Day In Court

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    Granting legal personhood to natural entities like the River Thames, or vulnerable species like the Pacific bearded seal and Arctic ringed seal, could protect them from ecological threats and the vagaries of politics, and help us transform our relationship with nature, says Sachin Nandha at the International Centre for Sustainability.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • Trump's Energy Plans For Generation, Transmission And More

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    The executive orders and presidential memoranda issued by President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration, unwinding the Biden administration's energy policies and encouraging development of fossil fuels, may have significant impacts on the generation mix, electric transmission construction and the state regulatory environment, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • Series

    Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Proactively Managing Tariff Impacts On Megaprojects

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    President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs may compound the complexity, duration and risks associated with financing and building large-scale infrastructure projects — so owners and contractors should plan to take possible tariff-related cost and schedule overruns into account when drafting contracts, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Series

    Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Opinion

    No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

  • Climate Disclosure Spotlight Shifts To 2 Calif. Laws

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    With Donald Trump's election spelling the all-but-certain demise of the proposed federal climate disclosure rules, new laws in California currently stand as the nation's only broadly applicable climate disclosure requirements — and their brevity is both a blessing and a curse, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

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