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The legal profession's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is at a crossroads. Following national protests over injustice and calls for greater understanding of our society's biases...

On Wednesday, October 7th, California Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. signed S.B. 350, the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 (the "Clean Energy Act"), into law.

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 which, among other things, extended the 2.3 cent-per-kilowatthour production tax credit and the 30% investment tax credit to qualifying wind and other renewable energy facilities the construction of which begins before January 1, 2014.

In this article, the authors examine the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed greenhouse gas emission standards for new and existing fossil fuel-burning power plants.

On July 22, 2011, in what could be characterized as a major blow to the Securities and Exchange Commission in its ongoing efforts to implement portions of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order vacating Rule 14a-11 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which provided eligible shareholders with access to company proxy materials for the purpose of nominating candidates for election as d

The constitutionality of AIA patent inter partes review (IPR) proceedings will be examined by the Supreme Court. On June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Oil States Energy Services...

Foreign Private Issuers, or FPIs, require a significant amount of guidance from experienced outside counsel.

The Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment of 2001 (known as the Cape Town Convention) and its equipment specific Protocols are an international treaty regime prepared by UNIDROIT.

Ongoing macroeconomic volatility, rising interest rates and persistent geopolitical undercurrents have widened valuation gaps across Asia's M&A landscape.

The article concludes with a look ahead to what to expect in 2018, and considers whether the trends identified will strengthen further in the coming year.

Company boards and management should take note of the U.S. Department of Justice's increasing focus on the prosecution of individual executives and employees for unlawful corporate conduct.

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Native American gaming was once thought of as an industry almost impervious to the gyrations of the broader domestic economy.

The outcome of yesterday's referendum raises a number of important data protection issues for UK organisations, as well as for organisations in other EU member states that share data with them.

Statutory appraisal rights not available to stockholders who fail to make timely election and are therefore required to accept cash

CM Minera Lumina Copper Chile achieved the eagerly awaited financial close of the Chile-based Caserones copper mine project in August 2011.

As reported in previous Client Alerts, there has recently been a flurry of Collective Proceedings Orders ("CPOs") in collective (class) actions for competition/antitrust claims...

International arbitration cannot withstand the inexorable march of technological progress any more than the national courts with which it competes for jurisdiction.