Once upon a time, it seemed the 1980 ruling in  World-Wide Volkswagen would control forever, and that jurisdictional jurisdictional...

A May 2017 decision by SCOTUS (Water Splash) makes it easier for US plaintiffs to use mail to serve process on overseas defendants under...

In a sign of the times, Kevin LaCroix at D & O Diary published an October 12, 2016 post titled:  “Book Review: An Updated Global Guide to...

As Professor Coffee pointed out in his new article, mass tort claiming has indeed gone global, as some of us expected. More evidence of...

Europe continues to see a growing focus on asbestos topics, including both non-litigation and litigation-related topics. An example...

In the NFL concussion litigation, the federal judge overseeing the case has now ordered release of supporting financial calculations for...

Cross-border litigation with UK lawyers  and non-lawyers (and others) is becoming easier for US lawyers. An example arises from ABA...

An online page presents information about this upcoming global conference on consumer products. The world continues to get smaller with...

Michael Goldhaber offers some insightful comments following up on a conference on the Chevron litigation arising from the toxic tort...

Michael Goldhaber and Alison Frankel offered detailed and interesting comments this past week on the Chevron/Ecuador fiasco. The bottom...

Crowell & Moring recently published a set of predictions for 2103 on a range of areas of litigations. The publication is online and free....

(Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters, and published in the NYT) Litigation risks are sometimes self-created, are created solely by others, or...

The Times of Malta brings news today of new asbestos litigation related to Maltese shipyards and asbestos. Prior posts covered some older...

More and more dialog is ongoing on settlement of global tort claims, whether in securities litigation or physical injury mass tort...

The Justice Roberts court typically is out to provide certainty for big business, and so it’snot surprising the Court has granted...

Continuing a policy that started in the last few years, the Defense Research Institute is once again sponsoring a cross-border seminar in...

Global tort litigation includes numerous battles within the war. This week, Chevron is trumpeting the fact that it won a preliminary ...

Human rights law continues to expand, and is an increasing part of international tort claiming. Set out below are the lead in...

Here is the link to a brief but very helpful summary of a decade of international tort litigation against Rio Tinto. The article includes...

Kevin LaCroix at the D & O Diary blog recently provided this post highlighting two recent rulings on "feeder fund" claims arising from...