A federal panel of judges has decided that litigation concerning the massive undersea BP PLC oil spill that began in April will be heard by a federal judge in New…
The top lawyer for the Vermont Public Service Department is being criticized for copying long passages from utility company documents for her own filing with the Public Service Board.
Bracewell & Giuliani has expanded its footprint, taking a giant step from its established territory in Texas and New York to plant its flag in Seattle.
Arent Fox has launched a new insurance and reinsurance practice in New York, making it one among a number of law firms that are looking to refocus its practice areas…
WilmerHale partner Jamie Gorelick helped BP win some concessions in preliminary talks with White House lawyers and at the final well-publicized meeting in which the company Jun 21, 2010 12:18 PM CDT
Updated: The lawyer who oversaw the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund, Kenneth Feinberg, has a new job: He’ll be overseeing a $20 billion fund to compensate those harmed by the…
Eight judges on the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have recused themselves from hearing an en banc appeal of a provocative global-warming lawsuit. As a result, there’s…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this afternoon that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into last month’s explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf…
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan has been tapped to handle litigation over the Gulf oil spill for Transocean Ltd., the owner of the BP oil rig that exploded.
A federal judge’s unusual order requiring the filmmaker who created the Crude documentary to turn over some 600 feet of raw footage to Chevron has been temporarily suspended.
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