Russia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split on foreign sovereign immunity, as it looks to avoid paying more than $242 million in arbitral awards owed to Ukrainian power and gas companies whose operations in Crimea were seized during the Kremlin's 2014 invasion.
Russia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split on foreign sovereign immunity, as it looks to avoid paying more than $242 million in arbitral awards owed to Ukrainian power and gas companies whose operations in Crimea were seized during the Kremlin's 2014 invasion.
A Florida federal judge sent two proposed class suits against Binance to arbitration Monday after finding that the arbitration provision of Binance's terms of use applied to the investors' claims that the exchange laundered stolen cryptocurrency.
South Korea has prevailed in an international arbitration by Swiss elevator maker Schindler Holding AG over its investment in Hyundai Elevator Co. Ltd., a dispute centered on claims that regulators failed to prevent the dilution of Schindler's stake, South Korea's Justice Ministry said.
A London judge has refused to grant Clyde & Co. an injunction preventing a lawyer from suing in Dubai to force the firm to pay his full bonus, concluding it was unlikely that an English arbitration agreement was still valid.
Many large law firms hit elite law school campuses last September to begin recruiting first-year students for their 2027 summer associate job openings, in what panelists at a New York City Bar Association event Tuesday described as a dysfunctional system unhelpful to both law students and law firms.
Latham & Wakins LLP has hired a Desmarais LLP partner in D.C., who helped represent GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in an ongoing infringement suit against Moderna Inc., the firm announced Tuesday.
A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney has returned to the firm in Jacksonville, Florida, after a 10-year stint in-house at Florida Blue, a subsidiary of GuideWell Mutual Holding Corp.
Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.
An attorney who previously represented a Massachusetts couple in a harassment lawsuit against eBay and three former executives has asked a federal judge to hold off on entering a dismissal in the now-settled case until she receives assurances she will be paid.
