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Energy sector participants will be familiar with the law of physics that states energy is neither created nor destroyed but can be converted from one form into another. Fossil fuels in the ground contain chemical energy and air currents in...

This week, our hosts dive deep into this week's August election results and what they tell us about the political climate for November's Midterms. Download and listen on: Stitcher iTunes Soundcloud Google Play

The Court of Appeal’s judgment in Bou-Simon v BGC Brokers LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 1525 reaffirms the law on implied terms. The Court also offered some interesting non-binding views on the circumstances in which words deleted from a draft contract...

Last week, the Senate followed the House of Representatives in passing the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (the “NDAA”), which President Trump is expected to sign into law very soon. The NDAA was amended late...

We're joined this week by Scott Lincicome, trade attorney and adjunct professor at The Cato Institute and Duke Law. We cover Scott's viral t-shirt design, the latest in retaliatory tariff news, and many other updates in the global Trade War....

This week we are joined in the Lobby Shop by Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball out of the UVA Center for Politics. Josh, Liam, and Kyle talk Midterms, key swing states, the current political climate's impact on...

With Congress wrapping up its Summer work and August recess rapidly approaching, the tax agenda for the remainder of the year has started to come into focus. With hopes for a ride on the must-pass aviation bill all but dashed,...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contains many changes that could act as potential traps for the unwary. Included among these are deductions that were eliminated or limited by the TCJA. In this installment, we will be discussing three...

This is the seventh installment of Bracewell Tax Report articles describing the new rules applicable to partnership audits under the Internal Revenue Code and the related proposed and final Treasury regulations. Each installment focuses on certain aspects of these rules...

After two weeks off, Josh, Paul, and Liam discuss the on-air discovery of Justice Kennedy's retirement from SCOTUS in episode 55 and what has happened in the time since. We also dive into the way the President talks about tariff...

In a post-GDPR world, it’s really important not to underestimate the value of UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) and URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension System) complaints. They are still going to be valuable and useful when you are pursuing domain name...

Bracewell's Annie Allison shares how the post-GDPR era impacts domain name enforcement.

Bracewell's Annie Allison shares the crucial steps that companies must take to protect their brand on cyberspace.

With apologies to movie fans everywhere, this briefing has nothing to do with Tom Cruise’s 1983 comedy or the Harry Potter films. Rather, it actually concerns the recent English High Court decision in Seadrill Ghana Operations Limited -v- Tullow Ghana...

Bankruptcy law and environmental law often are in tension with one another. The former seeks to accelerate a debtor’s liabilities into a net present value to determine creditor distributions. The latter encourages parties to manage environmental and decommissioning liabilities over...