Monday, February 23, 2015

Donziger To Wall Street Journal: The Real Fraud Is Chevron's Jurisdictional Shell Game

The Wall Street Journal today prominently featured a letter from attorney Steven Donziger criticizing Chevron for engaging in a jurisdictional shell game to evade paying the environmental judgment in its chosen forum of Ecuador. The judgment was confirmed unanimously by Ecuador's Supreme Court in 2013 after eight years of trial and three years of appellate...

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Top Ten List of Chevron's Most Outrageous Comments On Its Ecuador Disaster

Once evidence emerged that their client was guilty of dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in Ecuador's rainforest, Chevron's gargantuan "team" of lawyers and consultants just couldn't seem to stop stepping on themselves.  We therefore decided to compile just some of the company's most moronic comments relating to its efforts to try...

Monday, February 9, 2015

American Lawyer's Michael Goldhaber Under Fire Again For Biased Coverage of Ecuador Case

The ethics of American Lawyer reporter Michael Goldhaber are under fire -- yet again -- for his one-sided coverage in favor of Chevron in the Ecuador pollution dispute. Goldhaber last week used his platform as a columnist for American Lawyer to become a full-on advocate for Chevron in its demonization campaign against Steven Donziger, the American...