Our communities are being torn apart by incidents of unspeakable racism. As these incidents grow in number so, too, grows the legitimate anger, hurt, distrust, fear and public outrage of those in our community who have been targeted. Read More
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Our communities are being torn apart by incidents of unspeakable racism. As these incidents grow in number so, too, grows the legitimate anger, hurt, distrust, fear and public outrage of those in our community who have been targeted.
The COVID‐19 outbreak is creating a great deal of uncertainty in the global economy. Companies worldwide are facing unique legal and operational challenges related to the growing anxiety surrounding the outbreak. Gibson Dunn is equipped to provide strategic counsel and advise clients on how to best approach many of these key issues.
The California Supreme Court’s February 25, 2021 opinion in Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC is the most significant decision construing an employer’s duty to provide and record meal periods in nearly a decade. California employer
Plaintiffs alleging claims of employment discrimination often prefer to file suit in New York City if they can plead a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law, which was enacted with the “desire that [it] meld the broade
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen Weissman and Michael J. Perry have joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as partners. Both Weissman, a former Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, and Perry, a former Counsel to the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, join from […]
London partners Susy Bullock, Matthew Nunan, Michelle Kirschner and James Cox are the authors of “Big data, ethics and financial services: risks, controls and opportunities,” [PDF] published by the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in February 2021.
On February 3, 2021, the Administrative Court of Paris ruled that a liability action brought by several environmental protection associations against the French State, seeking recognition of its failure to act against climate change, was admissible, that the ecological damage alleged by the associations was established and that the French State was partially responsible for it.
New York partner Avi Weitzman and of counsel Tina Samanta are the authors of “Congress Codifies SEC Disgorgement Remedy in Military Spending Bill,” [PDF] published by Wall Street Journal in February 2021. The material is used with permission from Thomson Reuters.
In this webcast, Gibson Dunn lawyers discuss significant 2020 developments in areas including antitrust, corporate governance, data privacy and cybersecurity, international trade, money laundering, securities fraud, and white collar defense and investigations.
On February 18, 2021, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, an agency of the Treasury Department that administers and enforces U.S. economic and trade sanctions, issued an enforcement release of a settlement agreement with BitPay, Inc. for apparent violations relating to Bitpay’s payment processing solution that allows merchants to accept digital currency as payment for goods and services. OFAC found that BitPay allowed users apparently located in sanctioned countries and areas to transact with merchants in the United States and elsewhere using the BitPay platform, even though BitPay had Internet Protocol address data for those users. The users in sanctioned countries were not BitPay’s direct customers, but rather its customer’s customers (in this case the merchants’ customers).
New York partner Avi Weitzman and associate David Salant are the authors of “The Due Process Protections Act: Congress Directs Judges to More Actively Prevent and Remedy Prosecutorial Brady Violations,” [PDF] published by the Washington Legal Foundation on February 19, 2021.
Sixteen Gibson Dunn partners were named among the 2021 Lawdragon Global Litigation 500. This inaugural list recognizes those who specialize in international arbitration, public international law and those who advise leading corporations. Dubai partner Graham Lovett; Frankfurt partner Finn Zeidler; Hong Kong partner Kelly Austin; London partners Cyrus Benson, Patrick Doris, Osma Hudda, Penny Madden, […]
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