The default of subprime mortgages has led to an array of litigation over losses allegedly resulting from failures in underwriting and servicing practices. While mortgage loan underwriting and servicing failures have been widely reported, whether or to what extent such shortcomings were responsible for losses is less evident.

The UK Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) chose 9 November 2016 to release a series of long-awaited energy policy documents.

Citibank, JPMC and UBS have also faced huge fines from their home regulators, including the CFTC and Finma.

When we first examined the credit crisis and its subsequent litigation in July 2008, the related losses and lawsuits were in their early stages.

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The Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") has published its 2016 Progress Report and Commentary.

The Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") has published its 2016 Progress Report and Commentary (the "Report").

The Federal Circuit reversed a trial court's exclusion of a damages expert in a patent infringement case, finding that the expert's use of "virtual machine hours" as a royalty base could establish a reliable causal connection to the alleged infringement. This reversal vacated Microsoft's summary judgment victory and remanded the case for further proceedings, potentially reshaping how damages experts approach royalty base calculations in software patent disputes.

Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other structured financial products containing subprime mortgages have been a focal point of the credit crisis, giving rise to a growing amount of investigative journalism as well as credit crisis litigation.

In order for plaintiffs to certify a class in securities fraud class action litigation, they must demonstrate that class members relied on the allegedly fraudulent information.

The Federal Court of Australia affirmed its jurisdiction to issue an injunction against an arbitrator in London to prevent him hearing the arbitration, and to enforce such injunction by contempt proceedings if need be.

The latest issue of The Trademark Reporter (pdf here) includes a Commentary by Sarah Butler and Healey Whitsett entitled...

Although the business community had hoped the Court would overrule Basic v. Levinson, and the presumption of reliance it created, the Court did not go so far.

This study examines how innovation in patient access to treatment without a prescription could address critical patient needs. Notable disparities in healthcare access and outcomes persist across both geographic areas...

This conference is always a stimulating and fascinating opportunity to share thoughts with colleagues in the Canadian communications sector.

In a judgment dated 22 June 2018, the High Court (Lavender J) dismissed a challenge brought by a number of electricity generators (the Claimants) against a decision of the Gas and Electricity ...

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or "the Commission") published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the Federal Register soliciting comments on Federal Energy...

It has been more than six years since the onset of the credit crisis and we have documented for the first time in the past few months a significant increase in the number and size of settlements.

While discrimination and sexual harassment cases have historically dominated the labor litigation arena, the number of wage and hour cases has risen dramatically over the past decade.

On 23 April 2023, the Dutch newspaper NRC reported that the Minister of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter: the Minister) has disregarded recommendations to stop using profiling software for the assessment of Schengen visa applications.