Lawrence Newman

Nov 25, 2024 | law.com | Lawrence Newman |David Zaslowsky

Who Got The Work Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct.

Jul 24, 2024 | law.com | Lawrence Newman |David Zaslowsky

Your client gives you a contract and tells you that the counter-party has materially breached the agreement and amicable resolution is no longer an option. The contract includes an arbitration clause and there is no question that the dispute arises thereunder. However, the clause calls for arbitration before an institution that does not exist. What should you do? The impetus for this column was the recent decision in Spineway SA v. Strategos Group, No. 22-mc-00604-JLH (D. Del. Mar.

May 22, 2024 | law.com | Lawrence Newman |David Zaslowsky

For a lawyer with a background of trying cases before juries in federal court, as Mr. Newman was doing in the early 1970s, learning about the practice in international arbitration of hearings before three arbitrators, with the contesting parties each appointing one, was a revelatory experience.

May 21, 2024 | bakerbotts.com | Lawrence Newman |David Zaslowsky |Patricia Kane |John Armentano

A recent precedential decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit serves as an important reminder of the fundamental principle that “he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.” Keystone Driller v. General Excavator, 290 U.S. 240, 241 (1933). In Luv n’ Care v. Laurain and Eazy-PZ, No. 22-1905 (Fed. Cir. 2024), the Federal Circuit affirmed a Louisiana district court’s ruling that the patent owner was barred from obtaining relief on its claims due to unclean hands.

Jan 24, 2024 | law.com | Lawrence Newman |David Zaslowsky

There are many reasons that parties to international business transaction often decide to resolve their disputes through international arbitration, one of which is the knowledge and comfort that the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, June 10, 1958, 21 U.S.T. 2517 (commonly known as the New York Convention) is a widely adopted treaty that brings a relative amount of ease to enforcing international arbitration awards.