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The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: PIL and Litigation Aspects

Conflict of Laws

Introduction After extensive negotiations, on 24 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) as part of the EU Green Deal. At the same time, a large number of injured persons can mean that these collective actions will ask for high sums in damages.

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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

Attorney at Work

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms. Some executed successful staffing strategies using contract attorneys in 2020. Data privacy litigation?

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Understanding Unsuccessful Climate Litigation: The Spanish Greenpeace Case

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The decision, formally communicated to the parties on July 27, marks a pivotal moment in climate litigation. This blog post analyzes the Supreme Court’s decision and its implications for climate litigation efforts in Spain and beyond. Spain II , widely known as the trial for climate (“ el juicio por el clima ”).

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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Giving Regulatory Due Diligence Its Due

FDA Law Blog

Before committing to a merger or acquisition with another company, a potential Buyer must conduct due diligence to identify the imperfections of a target company so the Buyer knows what it is buying. This diligence is particularly critical when the target company is privately held, and thus not subject to scrutiny from public markets.

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Litigation Moneyball: Data Mining Litigators

The Cloud Court Blog

That enterprise, of course, is litigation. There exists an interesting body of literature that addresses how litigants leverage “asymmetric access to information” ( i.e., salient data to which only one party has access) to achieve better results for their clients. [i] Until then: litigate like you mean it. [i] But not always.

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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Ecological restoration and environmental remediation are some responses to climate change, and thereby this Treaty is likely to impact future climate litigation. This is likely to impact the success rate of litigation claims, since the clearer an obligation is in its scope and nature, the more likely it is that non-compliance is sanctioned.