Short commentary, as disputes develop.
Brief, timely observations from the partnership on developing disputes, regulatory shifts and the decisions clients are weighing in real time.
The First 48 Hours After a Fraud Is Discovered
The instinct, when a business first discovers it may have been defrauded, is to confront the counterparty immediately. That instinct is usually wrong.
Read →What Changes When a Dispute Becomes Public
Most commercial disputes never become public. The ones that do tend to change shape the moment they are — not because the legal merits shift, but because a second audience, the market, starts reacting to information a first audience, the tribunal, hasn't yet finished weighing.
Read →Reading a Term Sheet Like a Litigator
Deal lawyers and dispute lawyers read the same term sheet differently, and the difference is worth understanding before a transaction, not after it becomes contentious.
Read →The Quiet Way Most Disputes Actually End
Trials make headlines. Settlements, on the rare occasions they're reported at all, tend to be described as a footnote. That coverage gap creates a distorted picture of how commercial disputes actually end.
Read →Looking for the firm's longer working positions rather than short commentary? The eight essays that make up How We Think live in their own section.
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