Oil giant’s claims stem from the law firm’s representation of Ecuadorian plaintiffs bringing an environmental suit in Lago Agrio. Since late 2010, Washington, D.C. law firm Patton Boggs has been poking a sleeping tiger. It has filed three peculiar federal lawsuits — in its own name, not on behalf of any client — against Chevron,… Read More

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Chevron Corp. accused Patton Boggs LLP of fraud in New York federal court Friday, saying the firm conspired with a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans to cover up the extent to which an Ecuadorean court’s $19 billion pollution judgment was secured through bribery and corruption. The energy giant claimed Patton Boggs has knowingly mounted an obstructionist… Read More

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An Ontario judge on Wednesday halted efforts by a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans to pursue a $19 billion pollution judgment against Chevron Corp. through assets seizures there, saying the oil giant’s Canadian subsidiary is sufficiently independent and not party to the Ecuadorean dispute. While Justice David Brown of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in… Read More

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A claim by a group of Ecuadorean villagers seeking to seize Chevron Corp. (CVX)’s Canadian assets was stayed by a judge in Ontario at Chevron’s request. “Chevron does not possess any assets in this jurisdiction at this time,” Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown said in a ruling today on the asset-seizure request filed in… Read More

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A British litigation fund that backed the Ecuadorean plaintiffs who secured a $19 billion pollution judgment at the heart of Chevron’s New York racketeering lawsuit on Wednesday struck a deal with the energy giant, saying Patton Boggs LLP duped it into investing in the case. Burford Capital Ltd. renounced its interest in the litigation in… Read More

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While settling a dispute with Chevron, Burford Capital says it would never have financed Patton Boggs’ case against the oil giant if it weren’t for materially “false and misleading” statements by a Patton partner with whom it had a “special relationship.” In the latest in a series of bombshell filings, Chevron today submitted a 26-page… Read More

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