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October 20

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Date: October 20, 2016
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Court of Appeals Deals a Blow to Arbitrator Autonomy in Contract Interpretation

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit backtracked on a decades-long precedent that required deference to an arbitrator’s contract interpretation. The case, United States Soccer Federation v. United States National Soccer Team Players Association, involved a disput...

September 23

Posted By: Oleg Rivkin
Posted In: Litigation , News
Date: September 23, 2016
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Price-Fixing Claim Against Chinese Companies Dismissed on Grounds of International Comity

In an important decision affecting international litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed on the grounds of international comity a multi-million dollar judgment for price-fixing against Chinese manufacturers of vitamin C. The case, In re: Vitamin C Antitrust Lit...

September 08

Posted By: Oleg Rivkin
Posted In: Law Articles , Litigation
Date: September 8, 2016
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Extraterritorial Application of 28 U.S.C. § 1782

In a groundbreaking decision a federal court of appeals rules that 28 U.S.C. § 1782 authorizes extraterritorial production of documents. The case, Sergeeva v. Tripleton, originated with a Russian divorce proceeding, followed by the wife’s efforts to obtain discovery of her husband’s assets in U...

August 30

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Posted In: News
Date: August 30, 2016
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Oleg Rivkin conducts a Webinar for Clear Law Institute

Oleg Rivkin conducts a Webinar for Clear Law Institute on “Recognition of Foreign Judgments in the U.S.” Among the subjects covered by the Webinar are: Various legal frameworks for foreign judgment recognition; Threshold requirements for recognition; Reciprocity principles; Mandatory grounds for...

August 25

Posted By: Oleg Rivkin
Posted In: News
Date: August 25, 2016
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Oleg Rivkin quoted in Law360

The article, “Mob Mentality: Chevron’s Donziger Triumph Could Inspire RICO Copycats” (Law360, August 19, 2016), is an in-depth analysis of the consequences of the recent court decision in Chevron v. Donziger, which invalidated a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron. ...

April 27

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Posted In: Arbitration , Law Articles
Date: April 27, 2016
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Q&A With Rivkin Law’s Oleg Rivkin

Originally published in Law360 (April 2016) Oleg Rivkin, a principal at Rivkin Law Group PLLC in New York, concentrates his practice on international litigation and arbitration involving corporate, commercial and other business disputes. His work covers a broad range, including multijurisdictional t...

February 10

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Date: February 10, 2016
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Arbitrator’s Conflict: Risks and Remedies

By Oleg Rivkin Originally published in Corporate Counsel Magazine (February 2016) When corporate counsel and their outside lawyers think of conflicts of interest in the context of litigation or arbitration, what normally comes to mind is the typical situation. A lawyer is conflicted because her firm...

April 20

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Date: April 20, 2015
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Litigating in New York: The choice between state and federal court

By Oleg Rivkin I am often asked by clients who have decided to file a legal action whether they should file in state or federal court. The question invariably brings to mind an old law school professor who once lectured us: “When you graduate you will take the subway to City Hall and there you [...

December 22

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Posted In: Law Articles
Date: December 22, 2014
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Newly Adopted Privacy Standards for Cloud Service Providers

By Oleg Rivkin Originally published in Expect Focus, Vol. IV (Fall 2014) The International Standards Organization’s new cloud standard, ISO 27018, strives to ensure that public cloud service providers (such as Amazon, Google, and Rackspace) “offer suitable information security controls t...

August 08

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Date: August 8, 2014
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Foreign Judiciaries Through the Eyes of U.S. Courts

By Oleg Rivkin Originally published in New York Law Journal (August 2014) American courts are frequently asked by litigants to render decisions concerning the adequacy and integrity of other countries’ judicial systems. These questions come up as a rule in one of two situations: first, when a ...

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