Proskauer on International Litigation and Arbitration: A Review

Proskauer Rose LLP has just announced the release of its new E-Guide: “Proskauer on International Litigation and Arbitration: Managing, Resolving and Avoiding Cross-Border Business and Regulatory Disputes.” It is a welcome compendium of information for all sorts of practitioners – both litigation-centered and transactional – and brings together a wide array of topics under the common heading of cross-border legal issues.

To cover these issues, the E-Guide is divided into three sections dedicated to “International Litigation,” “International Arbitration,” and “International Issues in Select Substantive Areas.” The litigation section is broad and comprehensive, tackling matters that arise at the outset of a suit (e.g., securing U.S jurisdiction, venue and service outside the U.S.), and during the prosecution of a suit (e.g., choice of law, discovery, and trial), but also issues that are not commonly discussed in the traditional model if private international law texts. The chapters on government investigations and government immunity, U.S. abstention doctrine, the role of comity in U.S. courts, and anti-suit injunctions are particularly helpful to the practitioner aiming, in the authors’ words, to “present clients with strategic choices.” Later chapters on litigation ancillary to arbitration, and fighting to compel or avoid arbitration, have a similar practical focus.

The text of the E-guide is presented simply and and effectively, grazing the surface to focus more detailed research when necessary, and providing necessary details itself when appropriate. The authors believe that Proskauer on International Litigation and Arbitration is a “useful tool in . . . efforts to confront, resolve, and even avoid the issues that arise when a commercial or regulatory dispute jumps – or should jump – national borders.” A useful tool it certainly is.

It is available in its entirety here.