The United States' capture of now-ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month has raised an important question for creditors of the country that analysts say are owed, at minimum, some $150 billion: Have their chances of recovering the debt become better or worse?
The United States' capture of now-ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month has raised an important question for creditors of the country that analysts say are owed, at minimum, some $150 billion: Have their chances of recovering the debt become better or worse?
A Ukraine-owned bank has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to enforce a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship urged the Ninth Circuit to immediately stop a Nevada federal court from enforcing a "breathtakingly overbroad" discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits, saying it violates attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP has scooped up an arbitration partner with over 20 years of experience from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe after the firm closed its Switzerland office, part of HFW's plans to bolster its international arbitration practice in Geneva.
Burford Capital LLC has hired a new executive to oversee its operations in South Korea as the litigation funder aims to double its portfolio to roughly $15 billion by 2030, in part by expanding its geographic footprint.
Recent developments — such as the high-profile arbitration between ExxonMobil and Chevron, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's shift on its long-standing opposition to mandatory arbitration clauses in registration statements — highlight key issues to consider when drafting relevant agreements and arbitrating M&A disputes, say attorneys at Cleary.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.
Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.
Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.
A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.
A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.
The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.
The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.
