David Zaslowsky

Fifth Circuit holds that, in determining specific personal jurisdiction in a confirmation proceeding, a district court should consider a party's forum contacts related to the underlying dispute that resulted in the arbitration

The latest edition of our Field Guide to Going Global helps you examine foreign law issues for taking business models, products and technology international. Our guidance should be helpful whether you are working for a start-up company or a large multinational enterprise that is broaching new frontiers.

This articles discusses the continued vitality of the party-appointed arbitrator function and how it is treated by international arbitration users and their counsel in the face of guidelines and rules that have an impact on it.

Spineway SA v. Strategos Group LLC , No. 22-mc-00604-JLH (D. Del. Mar. 1, 2024) [1] Factual Background

For those who advise clients on matters relating to cross-border compliance, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has been the primary federal anti-bribery law since 1977. That was until 2023, when President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act. In doing so, the federal government filled a longstanding gap that was unaddressed: the “demand side” of foreign bribery and corruption.

Articles about artificial intelligence appear daily in many legal publications — including this one. But, on 28 May, US Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit wrote a concurring opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance Co. for the specific purpose of floating an idea about how judges might use generative AI.

The impetus for this column was the recent decision in 'Spineway SA v. Strategos Group', in which parties acknowledged that they had agreed to arbitrate their dispute, but disagreed about the arbitral institution and corresponding rules.

Hernandez v. Sohnen Enterprises, Inc. , 102 Cal. App. 5th 222 (2024), reh'g denied (June 3, 2024) [1] Factual Background

The authors state "Section 1782 (28 U.S.C. §1782) is an international litigation issue that this column has been writing about for decades. In today's column, we provide some Section 1782 practice pointers based on a number of recent decisions."