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On The Social Significance Of Large Law Firm Practice, Robert Kagan, Robert Rosen Dec 2015

On The Social Significance Of Large Law Firm Practice, Robert Kagan, Robert Rosen

Robert Kagan

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Living With Adr: Evolving Perceptions And Use Of Mediation, Arbitration And Conflict Management In Fortune 1,000 Corporations, Thomas Stipanowich, Ryan Lamare Dec 2013

Living With Adr: Evolving Perceptions And Use Of Mediation, Arbitration And Conflict Management In Fortune 1,000 Corporations, Thomas Stipanowich, Ryan Lamare

Thomas J. Stipanowich

As attorneys for the world’s most visible clients, corporate counsel played a key role in the transformation of American conflict resolution in the late Twentieth Century. In 1997 a survey of Fortune 1,000 corporate counsel provided the first broad-based picture of conflict resolution processes within large companies. In 2011, a second landmark survey of corporate counsel in Fortune 1,000 companies captured a variety of critical changes in the ways large companies handle conflict. Comparing their responses to those of the mid-1990s, clear and significant evolutionary trends are observable, including a further shift in corporate orientation away from litigation and toward …


Representing The Failing Company Where The Irs Is "Knocking On The Door", Craig Bell, T. Fogg, George Gretes, Nina Olson Dec 2013

Representing The Failing Company Where The Irs Is "Knocking On The Door", Craig Bell, T. Fogg, George Gretes, Nina Olson

T. Keith Fogg

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Retaliatorily Discharged Employees’ Standing To Sue Under The Antitrust Laws, Gary Shaw May 2013

Retaliatorily Discharged Employees’ Standing To Sue Under The Antitrust Laws, Gary Shaw

Gary M. Shaw

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Pfizer, Inc. V. India Foreign Sovereigns’ Standing To Sue For Treble Damages, Gary Shaw May 2013

Pfizer, Inc. V. India Foreign Sovereigns’ Standing To Sue For Treble Damages, Gary Shaw

Gary M. Shaw

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International Business Transactions In A Nutshell, 9th Edition, Ralph Folsom, Michael Gordon, John Spanogle, Michael Van Alstine Nov 2012

International Business Transactions In A Nutshell, 9th Edition, Ralph Folsom, Michael Gordon, John Spanogle, Michael Van Alstine

Michael P. Van Alstine

This guide examines the principal subjects involved in international business and commercial transactions. It includes chapters on the negotiation of business transactions; the international sale of goods; the role of documentary sales; the use of letters of credit; technology transfers; the initiation, operation, and termination of, as well as limitations imposed on, foreign investments; property takings, including remedies for and options for insuring against such actions; the European Union competition rules; and dispute settlement (both through litigation in state courts and through arbitration). It also addresses throughout the special challenges for business transactions in developing and nonmarket economies.


Purpose, Precedent, And Politics: Why Concepcion Covers Less Than You Think, Michael A. Helfand Dec 2011

Purpose, Precedent, And Politics: Why Concepcion Covers Less Than You Think, Michael A. Helfand

Michael A Helfand

This article sketches some possible limitations on the impact AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion will have going forward. While many have seen the Supreme Court’s decision as simultaneously signaling an end to the viability of class action lawsuits and undermining principles of federalism, there may be reasons to believe that it will not have implications quite so far reaching. Specifically, this article proposes three reasons why Concepcion’s impact may be limited. First, the decision lends itself to a more narrow reading, which simply demands that courts take the entire of an arbitration agreement into account before deploying common law defenses to …