A British Virgin Islands commodities firm has won confirmation in Florida federal court of its nearly $188 million arbitral award against a Venezuelan state-owned mining company after it failed to enter an appearance in the case filed late last year.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP on Thursday announced the appointment of a new leadership team that includes the London-based law firm's first female senior partner-elect.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned lifetime bans on three Russian biathletes after the women filed appeals contesting their alleged violations of anti-doping rules during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the court announced Thursday.

A London judge ordered a British engineering and construction firm to withdraw U.S. litigation seeking to force 10 insurers to cover defense costs for a $1.4 billion cost-overrun suit in Texas, extending his prior anti-suit injunction.

Global law firm DWF LLP said Thursday it has snagged three partners and a team of 10 from U.K. insurance dispute resolution specialist Keoghs LLP to open a new office in the southeast English city of Southampton.

Best practices that can help litigators write convincing discovery motions include thinking about the audience, addressing a few key questions, and leaving out boilerplate from supporting briefs, says Tom Connally at Hogan Lovells.

Global trade in goods fell off between the first and second quarters of 2020 at a rate unseen since the 2008 financial crisis, as countries went into lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19, the World Trade Organization reported Wednesday.

A Bolivian investment firm is urging the Tenth Circuit not to put its ruling enforcing a $36 million arbitral award on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the matter, dismissing as "fanciful" a Mexican cement company's hopes that the justices will vacate the decision.

An international tribunal will consider as an initial matter whether it has jurisdiction over a $70 million arbitration against Mexico over seized hotel properties that involves claims by six investors with different nationalities under four different treaties.

Congress has multiple means to take the politics out of federal judicial nominations and restore the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court — three of which can be implemented without a constitutional amendment, says Franklin Amanat at DiCello Levitt.