Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

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Sutherland is a law firm with global reach known for solving challenging business problems and resolving unique legal issues for many of the world's largest companies. Founded in 1924, the firm has grown to approximately 425 lawyers handling matters in every part of the world. Seven major practice areas — corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and tax — provide the framework that contains an extensive range of specialty areas, allowing its lawyers to serve a diverse client base that includes a number of Fortune 500 companies.

General Practice; Trial Practice; Appellate Practice; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Antitrust And Trade Regulation; Aviation Law; Biotechnology; Life Sciences; Broker-Dealer; Business Restructuring; Bankruptcy; Class Actions; Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Corporate Law; Securities; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Derivatives; Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation; Employment Litigation; Energy Finance; Project Development; Energy Policy; Regulation; Environmental Law; Financial Services Law; Health Care; Hospitality Law; Leisure; Insurance Products; Intellectual Property; International Law; Non-Profit; Governmental Organizations; Outsourcing; Systems Integration; Patent Prosecution; Litigation; Private Equity; Professional Liability; Public Finance; Real Estate; School Finance Litigation; Securities Enforcement; Tax Law; Business Law; Estate Planning; Tax Litigation; Controversy; State Government Law; Federal Practice; Technology Law; Timber Forest Products; M & A.

Second Circuit Holds Class Action Waiver Unenforceable Where Individual Arbitration Would be Prohibitively Expensive
Wilson G. Barmeyer,Gail L. Westover,Lewis S. Wiener, February 7, 2012
In a shot across the bow of recent Supreme Court precedent in favor of arbitration, the Second Circuit has held that a mandatory class action waiver in an arbitration provision is unenforceable where the plaintiffs established that the practical effect of enforcement of the waiver would be to...

Act Clarifying Jurisdiction and Venue in Federal Court Now in Effect
Brendan Ballard,Thomas M. Byrne,Thomas W. Curvin,Phillip E. Stano,Steuart H. Thomsen,Srikanth Vadakapurapu, February 3, 2012
On December 7, 2011, President Obama signed into law the first significant changes to the general (i.e., non-CAFA) federal diversity jurisdiction, removal, and venue statutes since the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990. The new law, the Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of...

EPA Issues Notice of Violation of the Renewable Fuel Standard for Generation of 48 Million Fraudulent RINs Worth Approximately $62 Million
Susan G. Lafferty,David M. McCullough,Peter H. Rodgers, February 3, 2012
On February 2, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Violation of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard to Absolute Fuels, LLC, for generating and selling 48,147,974 Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) (currently worth approximately $62 million) on...

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