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Handling Your First (Or Next) Oil And Gas Case: Who Is The Client? Operative Documents, Necessary Parties, And Knowing Your Limits

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As part of TexasBarCLE’s “Handling Your First (or Next)” series, Jackson Walker partner Amy Osberg Roberts presented a discussion on “Who Is the Client? Operative Documents, Necessary Parties, and Knowing Your Limits” in oil...more

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Environmental Consultant Documents: Federal District Court Addresses Potential Application of Attorney-Client Privilege/Work...

The United States District Court (Western District of Oklahoma) addressed in a January 11th Order the potential application of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to certain documents generated by...more

WilmerHale

The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review - 2018

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The Asia-Pacific region has seen a surge in the use of arbitration in recent years. Although it is difficult to draw general conclusions about a large and incredibly diverse geographical region that stretches from French...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Bankrolling Class Actions: Court Rules That Plaintiff Must Identify Third-Party Funder Of Class Action Lawsuit

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The increasingly common practice of third-party funding of class actions, which provides tax incentives to plaintiffs’ attorneys and third-party funders alike, may no longer be protected under...more

Dechert LLP

US$1.3 Billion Fortis Settlement Ushers in New Era in Globalization of Securities Laws

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A closely-watched set of claims stemming back to the 2008 global financial crisis has settled for a massive €1.204 billion (US$1.3 billion), making it one of the highest settlements ever and ushering in a new era in the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Counterpart to New York’s Investigation of Climate Change Disclosures by Fossil Fuel Companies

Recently, three House Democrats urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation of an alleged conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to deceive the public on climate change in order to benefit the sale of its...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Implications of the Clean Power Plan Stay

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Late in the day on Tuesday, February 9, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed, for at least a year and possibly longer, the implementation of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s)...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Environmental Justice Lawsuit Accuses L.A. of Discriminatory Oil Permitting

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On Friday, November 6, three environmental organizations filed suit against the City of Los Angeles in California Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles. The three groups, Youth for Environmental Justice, the Center for...more

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Trade Secrets Protected From Disclosure Under FOIA…Except For When They Aren’t

We have previously reported about protecting trade secrets from disclosure after a FOIA request. There is something to be said for immediate action and intervening to protect your trade secrets, but sometimes that just isn’t...more

King & Spalding

The "Preliminary Agreement" – Framing or Frustrating the Deal?

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Preliminary Agreements come into play when structuring and negotiating a broad spectrum of transactions and agreements. They are embraced by many market participants and are, at best, tolerated by others. They have been the...more

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