In-house counsel are in a tough position when they oversee an internal corporate investigation. On the one hand, the company needs to understand the facts to make appropriate determinations. But,…
A Yale-educated lawyer who was President Obama’s special adviser for environmental jobs has resigned in the wake of controversy over his past statements and his signature on a Sept. 11…
Saying that he did nothing wrong but doesn’t want to impede an ongoing investigation, a judge in Ecuador has recused himself in a $27 billion environmental case following a claim…
Videotape of an Ecuador judge posted on YouTube and a company website by Chevron Corp. was doctored, the judge, who is accused of discussing an upcoming ruling in an ongoing…
Environmentalists say a wolf hunt in Idaho is likely to proceed today, after a federal judge in Montana said he needed to review some documents before ruling on a request…
Accused by an indigenous group of contaminating the environment in the Amazon region decades ago, Chevron Corp. is fighting back with videotape allegedly showing the judge in the ongoing Ecuador…
Inspired by a law blog’s call for spur-of-the-moment entries into a law firm-related song contest, an aspiring songwriter at one of the nation’s best-known BigLaw firms stepped up to the…
A judge in West Virginia has been disqualified from continuing to hear a case alleging groundwater pollution because he once represented one of the defendants—while still a practicing lawyer and…
A five-lawyer team of environmental lawyers including the Washington, D.C., practice co-chair has been lured from Patton Boggs to Crowell & Moring. They will be working with two former Patton…
Environmental groups may not have lost all five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court last term if Justice Sandra Day O’Connor had remained on the court.
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