Most Friday nights, my wife Jennifer and I order takeout from the Tex-Mex restaurant down the street, settle onto the couch in the den, and see what's good on Netflix or Apple TV.

The ICC International Court of Arbitration has reached a historic milestone with its 30,000th case registration in 2025, while simultaneously introducing groundbreaking rule changes that eliminate mandatory terms of reference for the first time in over a century. What do these developments mean for the future of international arbitration, and how are gender diversity initiatives reshaping the composition of arbitral tribunals?

The State of New York recently established the New York State Office of Medicaid Inspector General.

On this episode of The Arbitration Acumen Podcast, Neeti Sachdeva, registrar and secretary general of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA), joins J.P. Duffy about MCIA and its tenth anniversary.

Most developers and real estate investors are well aware of the complications that can arise from the presence of wetlands, as well as the widely-publicized court decisions that have narrowed the types of wetlands subject to federal regulation in recent years. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have now issued joint guidance on how those agencies will implement the Supreme Court's latest wetlands decision in the Rapanos case.

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a tribe cannot protect non-Indian contractors from state taxation.

In its continued efforts to enhance the cybersecurity of transportation and other critical infrastructure systems across the country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued...

On 27 August 2024, a Swiss commodity trader entered into a settlement agreement for $48 million with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") in relation to alleged market manipulation charges.

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, one of the two federal antitrust authorities, recently released an updated version of its Policy Guide to Merger Remedies.

Companies are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence technologies, and both regulators and private plaintiffs have set their sights on "AI washing," where businesses tout AI capabilities that do not exist.

In the second of a two-part series on government investigations and inspections, Bracewell partners Kevin Collins and Seth Du Charme join Environmental Law Monitor host Daniel Pope...

In an opinion issued on January 9, 2009, the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held that at least with respect to non-safe-harbor contracts, there is no exception to the "mutual debt" requirement for effectuating setoffs in bankruptcy; and denied the non-debtor counterparty's attempt to exercise cross-entity or triangular setoff rights.

Most creditors attempting to collect from a bankrupt borrower in Texas are hopelessly barred from recovering against a debtor's homestead if the borrower/debtor elects the homestead exemption under the Bankruptcy Code.

The state of business method patents and what is considered patent-eligible subject matter will now be addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court surprised many by announcing today that it will hear Bilski v. Doll, No. 08-964, on appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (see In re Bilski, No. 2007-1130 (Fed.Cir. Oct. 30, 2008) (en banc)).

Joshua Zive: Well, election night was certainly something for those of us who follow international trade policy closely. After years of trade policy feeling like a largely forgotten sibling in the family.

On this episode of The Arbitration Acumen Podcast, J.P. Duffy is joined by Elizabeth Carter, senior vice president at JAMS and a principal drafter of the JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures...

As the American Arbitration Association celebrates its centennial, its president and CEO Bridget McCormack discusses how artificial intelligence and online dispute resolution are shaping the future of arbitration.

Scott Segal joins Taylor Stuart and Daniel Pope on the Bracewell Environmental Law Monitor to unpack the sweeping impact of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" on the US energy sector.

The Trump administration’s actions related to renewable energy development have suffered another setback. On April 21, 2026,

The Biden administration's enforcement-heavy approach to cryptocurrency regulation has given way to the Trump administration's structured framework under the GENIUS Act.