For the past several years, there has been a general increase in wage and hour disputes. According to Fulbright's 7th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, companies...

The exploration and development of shale formations in the Rocky Mountains, Texas, and Pennsylvania has captured the nation's attention, as citizens and governments...

Nanotechnology is the science of the very small. As materials are reduced in size such that they reach nanometer proportions, some begin to act and react in ways very...

Fulbright & Jaworski and California Retailers Association invite you to learn about the California Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma...

Cloud computing appears to be a wave crashing over businesses and a fact of life for counsel and compliance officers attempting to assess the risks of this new...

On February 4, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied en banc reconsideration of a September ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co...

If asked to identify the most significant provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Consumer Protection Act, few executives would identify the Act's...

Are some courts effecting a quiet, but potentially very costly, change in the way large data-producing entities manage their data? A handful of decisions suggest that some...

With renewed confidence in the economy and stock prices on the rise, 2011 is likely to usher in a host of mergers and acquisitions. Forbes.com recently proclaimed 2011 as &qu...

On November 30, 2010, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs held a hearing entitled "Examining Enforcement of the Foreign Cor-rupt...

A party that establishes a breach of contract claim may recover benefit of the bargain damages to put it in the position it would have enjoyed had the contract not been...

On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs held a hearing entitled "Examining Enforcement of the Foreign...

The SEC whistleblower provisions of the newly enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are already having a significant impact on how public...

Effective December 1, 2010, the landscape of federal expert discovery and disclosure will change. Amendments to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (the “Ru...

Much land in the United States is subject to substantial restraints on development under state and federal law. This paper considers those restraints, from the...