article thumbnail

Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 5] Insurance options are suddenly plentiful, [6] funders are expanding and multiplying, [7] and new deal commitments are on the rise. [8] Guest post by Jonathan Stroud.

article thumbnail

D.C. Circuit Decision: Pipeline Developers Can’t Self-Deal in the Public Interest

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Circuit ruled in favor of the Environmental Defense Fund in its challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision making on the Spire Pipeline, holding that FERC requires more than private, self-dealing contracts to find public need to build fossil fuel pipelines.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

In-House Counsel Jobs – Corporate Counsel Jobs

InHouseBlog

Commercial Contracts Counsel, Innovative EdTech Industry Leader , Garrison & Sisson (Remote). Counsel, Production Content Review , Paramount (New York, NY). Corporate Counsel , Jaguar Land Rover NA (Mahwah, New Jersey). VP, Litigation & Employment Law , www.princetonlegal.com (Princeton, NJ). Boulder, CO).

article thumbnail

Customs and Trade News Snapshot

Customs & International Trade Law

Dye is proposing to reform three practices of ocean carriers and marine terminal operators at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the Port of New York and New Jersey that relate to container returns, earliest return date, and container pickup (notice of availability).

article thumbnail

The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. He also founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers. For more than 50 years,” the ACLU of New Jersey wrote in a tribute , “Frank Askin devoted everything within him to the principles of liberty, equality, fairness, and personal freedom.”.

Court 115
article thumbnail

To Arbitrate or Not To Arbitrate? That Is the Question

ALPS

2015) (arbitration provisions in attorney-client employment agreements enforceable like any other contract); Watts v. 2000) (Michigan law presumes that one who signs a contract knows and understands its contents, so lawyer need not advise prospective client that fee agreement contained an arbitration clause); Derfner & Mahler, LLP v.

article thumbnail

September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. and non-U.S.