The U.S. Supreme Court's decision late last month declining to review a case that sought clarity on the standard by which parties can challenge awards over an arbitrator's "evident partiality" has left the arbitration community still grasping for guidance on how such challenges should be handled.

Just a month after a longtime White & Case LLP practice leader jumped to Paul Hastings LLP for a leadership role, two more attorneys have made that journey to Paul Hastings' Washington, D.C. office.

A Gazprom joint venture told the U.K. Supreme Court on Wednesday that appeal judges in England did not have jurisdiction to grant an anti-suit injunction blocking its €450 million ($480 million) claim in Russia against UniCredit Bank.

Withers has hired a former Debevoise & Plimpton LLP counsel as a senior equity partner in its New York office.

Whether it's seeing clients and their issues from a new perspective, or staying nimble in a moment of intense challenge, the lessons learned from whitewater kayaking transcend the rapids of a river and prepare attorneys for the courtroom and beyond, says Matthew Kent at Alston & Bird.

Nigeria has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion clarifying the reach of a carveout in federal arbitration law helps to boost its case looking to nix enforcement of a nearly $70 million arbitral award on sovereign immunity grounds.

A businessman who signed agreements with a Chinese energy management company on behalf of two different investment funds has told a California federal court that he never received proper notice about an arbitration that resulted in a $4.4 million award against him.

The Fifth Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a Louisiana couple's proposed class action alleging that their insurer's method of evaluating their Hurricane Ida property damage violated state law, affirming that a previous, related lawsuit the couple filed barred the present claim from coverage.

Electronic voting system company Smartmatic has settled its defamation suit in Washington, D.C., federal court alleging One America News Network peddled conspiracy theories claiming the firm rigged voting machines during the 2020 presidential election, the company said in a statement Tuesday.

A Seattle attorney ordered to pay $268,000 after being accused of filing a fake newspaper called the "The Saudi Sun" as a court exhibit wants the Ninth Circuit to overturn the sanction, arguing that it resulted from judicial misconduct and corruption.

Hill Dickinson LLP has snapped up a partner from Teacher Stern LLP to join its commercial litigation team, bringing a wealth of dispute resolution and crisis management experience to the table.

As Earth Day approaches, law firms and attorneys should consider adopting more sustainable practices to reduce their carbon footprint — from minimizing single-use plastics to purchasing carbon offsets for air travel — which ultimately can also reduce costs for clients, say M’Lynn Phillips and Lisa Walters at IMS Legal Strategies.

Hundreds of law and economics professors have joined the chorus of calls on the left pressing U.S. President Joe Biden to snip investor-state dispute settlement provisions from existing trade deals, saying the legal mechanism privileges corporate entities over domestic citizens.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP has tapped two energy lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery LLP to serve as partners in the global law firm's Singapore office, saying they bring broad expertise in advising a range of Asia-Pacific clients on project development in power and renewables.

Ukraine's state-owned oil company has hit back at Russia's bid in D.C. federal court to toss its attempt to enforce a $5 billion arbitral award it won after its Crimean assets were seized following Russia's annexation of the peninsula, saying the court has jurisdiction over the case.

A London appeals court on Monday dismissed a bid by a Tyson Foods Inc. subsidiary to overturn a ruling that prevented the food giant from bringing proceedings in England in a jurisdictional row involving two reinsurance contracts over fire coverage.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear HomeServices of America's argument that certain class members in a lawsuit over real estate agents' commissions should have been compelled to arbitrate their antitrust claims rather than taking them to a jury.

An international tribunal ordered South Korea to pay Mason Capital Management LLC $32 million in a long-running investor-state suit filed by the New York-based hedge fund over the 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates, according to the South Korea Ministry of Justice.

Peru is hitting back at Connecticut-based hedge fund Gramercy's bid to enforce a $100 million arbitral award that it secured over the country's valuation of old government bonds, telling a D.C. federal court that the investor had failed to bring its challenge within three years of learning of the alleged misconduct as required by a bilateral trade agreement. 

An international arbitration lawyer and litigator who co-founded Hong Kong law firm Georgiou Payne Stewien has said he has left it to launch his own firm.