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The global impact of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 10 2007

U.S.-related capital and business activities are increasingly being moved to foreign destinations, in pursuit of ever greater investment returns

It's started - transnational lawsuits over GHGs

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • June 7 2010

In a sign of the times, the Federated States of Micronesia, a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, has lodged a legal challenge to plans to extend the life of the large Prunérov coal-fired power plant in the Czech Republic, the 11th dirtiest in Europe, an additional 25 years

Recent U.S. district court opinion adds more uncertainty to disclosure under 28 U.S.C. 1782.

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • January 20 2010

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled that disclosure under 1782 was unavailable to aid a "private" ICC tribunal

US discovery in aid of international arbitration revisited

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • September 1 2010

In 1983, Lord Denning said: "As a moth is drawn to the light, so is a litigant drawn to the United States."

Cost- and risk-reducing options for production of electronic data

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • February 28 2011

A large financial firm is defending a class action law suit which includes fraud claims

Copenhagen and beyond

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 23 2009

On December 19, 2009, 188 of the 193 nations participating in the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, agreed to “take note” of the Copenhagen Accord negotiated by more than two dozen countries, including the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa

E-discovery basics: cross-border e-discovery

  • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • July 25 2011

In previous installments of E-Discovery Basics, we discussed each of the stages in the e-discovery life cycle--starting with litigation preparedness, legal holds and preservation, and proceeding to processing, review, production, admissibility and presentation of electronically stored information ("ESI"

The ripple effect: coverage for contingent business interruption

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 31 2011

The economic impacts of the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan on March 11, 2011 are beginning to ripple across the globe

The new era of FCPA enforcement

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • August 29 2011

It has been over thirty years since the U.S. became the first country to pass anti-corruption legislation known as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Your company’s name (not) here?

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
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  • Global, USA
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  • October 31 2011

When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced on June 19 that it would allow virtually any word or name to be registered as a top-level domain (“TLD”), many pundits predicted a digital gold rush