International disputes & arbitration lawyers

A ventilator order went undelivered during the pandemic. Kirtley’s firm represented the Maldives in arbitration that ordered repayment, damages, interest and costs.

Amal Clooney represented a Yazidi survivor in the first genocide conviction of an Islamic State member. Her work in Frankfurt and the cases that followed.

Dan Stormer represented Burmese villagers against Unocal over forced labor on the Yadana pipeline and litigates civil rights cases from Pasadena.

Hina Shamsi directs the ACLU National Security Project. Her practice addresses government transparency, constitutional rights and international human rights.

Agnieszka Fryszman’s plaintiff-side human-rights practice builds jurisdictional and evidentiary paths for forced-labor, trafficking, torture, and killing claims.

Emma Gilmore’s securities practice combines cross-border evidence development, appellate doctrine, and close control of the pleading record.

Susan L. Burke represented Abu Ghraib detainees against L-3, argued for them before the en banc Fourth Circuit, and sued Blackwater over Nisoor Square.

Rupali Sharma litigates abortion access in the units the patient pays, from the Texas record behind Whole Woman’s Health and Mellet v. Ireland to today’s fights for young people’s rights.

Kimberley Motley is an international litigator and founder of The Justness Project. Her work spans human rights and criminal, civil and commercial disputes.

James A. Harrod treats cross-border securities work as a problem of mapping: identify the transaction, the governing law, the available forum, and the investor’s actual recovery path before litigation begins.

Stuart L. Berman leads Kessler Topaz’s global shareholder-litigation practice, guiding public funds and other large investors through active claims, group proceedings, and direct actions across jurisdictions.

Diandra “Fu” Debrosse represents Glenn Foster Jr.’s widow over his Pickens County jail death and co-leads the national preterm infant-formula NEC litigation.

Jeremy A. Lieberman represents investors in cross-border securities cases involving class certification, domestic transactions, foreign law, and recovery.

Daniel E. Baron advises on private-market data, financial technology, securities, fund governance, digital assets, and cross-border transactions.