• December 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

    Civil Actions

    The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' online bulletins. U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT

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  • Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. United States

    Publication Date: 2008-08-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2008-08-07
    Court: Fed. Cir.
    Judge: Rader, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For plaintiff-appellant: Carter Phillips, Sidley Austin, Washington, D.C.
    for defendant: For defendant-appellee: Harold Lester Jr., Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. For amici curiae: Ronald Schechter, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: 2007-5046

    Before MAYER, LOURIE, and RADER, Circuit Judges.This appeal involves the damages calculation for the partial breach by the United States of its contract with the nuclear utilities, in this case, Pa

  • January 27, 2003 | Legal Times

    Metro Players

    GOVERNMENT STICKS POGOThe federal government filed a civil suit last week against the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight and an Interior Department employee, alleging tha

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  • October 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    New Business

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  • August 1, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: August 1, 2013

    Australia/New Zealand   King & Wood Mallesons and Allens are advising on a proposed $820 million copper and gold mining d

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  • August 1, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Reunited We Stand

    It's an unusual networking group— and an exclusive one. Some 25 lawyers who served as a general counsel at a federal agency under President George W. Bush have continued to

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  • July 15, 2005 | The American Lawyer

    Chicago Blows Into Firms' View

    For most of the country's leading law firms, Chicago has never been the Second City. The highest-grossing firms on the coasts have expanded into each other's cities, but few have settled in Ch

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  • September 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    2nd Circuit Revives Suit Targeting Power Plant CO2 Emissions

    Global warming lawsuits brought by New York State and others who challenged major utilities on carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants were reinstated Monday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit

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  • July 1, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Crossing Borders

    If it's jackpot awards you're after, U.S. courts are no longer the only game in town. Last month King & Spalding won an international arbitr

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  • July 21, 2004 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Brooklyn Lawyer's Estate to Fund Harvard ProfessorshipHarvard Law School will be getting a Harvey Greenfield chair in securities law after all. The law school, which had hoped t

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