While much attention has focused on how the new Dodd-Frank whistleblower rules will impact the effectiveness of internal compliance programs and employer-employee...

In our October 4th Forum, facts were separated from the theories related to this country's most promising new energy source and the key technology used to...

Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act authorized the SEC to reward whistleblowers for reporting violations of federal securities...

After the Nortel patent auction resulting in a winning bid of $4.5 billion and Google's announcement that it entered an agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility, along...

Join Fulbright partner Barclay Nicholson as he discusses a recently passed, full disclosure law. In June of this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a law...

The Discovery Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules convened a mini-conference Sept. 9 in order to gather information and determine whether it is time to...

Fulbright's 2011 International Arbitration Report, Issue 2 not only brings you up-to-date on where major issues now stand, it also gives you an indication of...

Since August 2009, at least twenty-three (23) lawsuits complaining of alleged groundwater contamination have been filed by landowners in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana,...

Within the past few years hydraulic fracturing and its alleged impact on water quality has received increasing attention from the media, the EPA, Congress, and state and...

Fulbright senior associate  Danielle Clarkson and partner  William Finegan  provided information regarding the following topics in a recent...

Companies with offshore operations may find themselves scrambling to prioritize responses to almost daily regulatory developments in offshore drilling regulations. In...

In rare and helpful guidance for companies paying for the international travel of government officials, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would not take any...

The Internal Revenue Service (the " IRS ") launched a new program yesterday that will allow businesses the opportunity to resolve prior worker classification...

In response to the escalation in the level of violence perpetrated by the current Syrian regime against its people, the EU has recently implemented additional measures...

On September 16, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's ("CFTC") Division of Market Oversight granted temporary relief from certain requirements...