Some jurisdictions provide specialized courts that focus on commercial disputes. These courts provide judges with experience in issues that frequently arise in commercial disputes so that litigants are comfortable that the judges understand the matters they present. They also follow special rules that were written specifically for commercial disputes. But not all litigants prefer commercial courts, nor do all commercial disputes qualify to be heard in them. Why should you continue reading this post about…

Peru has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and more people than any U.S. state besides California. Its legal system, however, is relatively new and very interesting. To learn more about it, I asked my former colleague Sheila Giuliana La Serna Jordan. Sheila used to practice law with me at Becker Glynn in New York, but now she is the chief legal and compliance officer of Profuturo AFP, the Peruvian pension…

Some details about the IT work involved in document productions. As I discussed in an earlier post, litigants in New York and federal court are entitled to demand their adversaries and even non-parties produce relevant e-mails. But how does someone take thousands of emails and decide which get produced? And are there a bunch of complicated rules and procedures that would surprise someone who doesn’t do this all the time? The answers are “a…

Russia’s judiciary resolves disputes for a country of almost 150 million people that includes some of the world’s major energy and investment companies. But its government has only been around for about thirty years. Litigating in this relatively new system sounded challenging, so I asked Russian lawyers Mergen Doraev and Ivan Semenkin, partners at the Moscow law firm EMPP, to tell me about their work. Why should you keep reading this post about litigation…