Specialized Litigation and Arbitration

Partner Andrew Vail has been reelected as the Chicago Bar Association’s (CBA) Secretary for the 2026–2027 term. He will serve alongside President Trisha M. Rich, First Vice President Kathryn Carso Liss, Second Vice President Jonathan B. Amarilio, and Treasurer Adam Zebelian.

Illinois civil litigation demands precision. From the first filing to the final appeal, practitioners must navigate a complex and ever-changing web of case law, rules, deadlines, and procedures. 

After a year of significant upheaval for higher education institutions, additional changes are on the horizon in 2026. The most recent Unified Agenda, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and other developments mean additional changes for—as outlined below—civil rights enforcement, admissions, foreign gift reporting, accreditation, visa requirements and eligibility, grant funding, student loans, patent revenue, and student privacy. Understanding and anticipating these developments will help position

The Department of Justice has quietly created a new power center that will expand its ability to pursue investigations and bring politically charged lawsuits against both corporations and state actors. For companies navigating federal scrutiny across multiple regulatory fronts—from consumer protection to immigration—this shift could reshape how enforcement risk manifests in 2026 and beyond. Below, we discuss what this shift means—and how your organization should be preparing in anticipation of a

On September 17, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a policy statement (the Statement) that allows companies to include mandatory arbitration clauses in their governing documents for investor claims, reversing its longstanding practice of prohibiting companies intending to go public from doing so.

Jenner & Block's London office has been recognised in the Corporate Crime & Investigations practice area. Published annually, Chambers UK 2026 ranks the leading law firms and lawyers across the United Kingdom based on in-depth research and client feedback.

Jenner & Block’s London office has been recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2026 Edition across the following five practice areas:

Partner Huiyi Chen was named to Chicago Lawyer’s 40 Under 40 list, which recognizes 40 of the most talented young lawyers working in Illinois who have “intelligence, passion, success in the office, a desire to help the community, and, most importantly, a willingness to work hard at one of the country’s most important professions.”

The Administration’s dramatic cutbacks to federal funding have changed the landscape and presented new and unprecedented challenges for funding recipients across a range of industries.

In a recent feature for The Law Gazette, Partner James Rogers discusses how post-Brexit legal realities have redefined cross-border dispute strategy, particularly in the arena of enforcement and arbitration. 

Washington, DC Office Managing Partner Lindsay Harrison has been named a finalist for The American Lawyer’s 2025 Litigator of the Year award. This recognition honors the nation’s most outstanding litigators—those whose advocacy has shaped the law and delivered transformative results for clients.

Many readers will be familiar with the Spanish renewables saga which centers on changes made by Spain to a renewable energy support scheme in 2007, which led to over 50 investment treaty arbitrations, including a number brought by Japanese investors. The European Commission has now invoked state aid to justify the non-payment of the resulting awards against Spain.

On June 5, 2025, the US Supreme Court held, in a unanimous decision, that civil litigants in US courts seeking to enforce an arbitration award against foreign nations or instrumentalities do not need to meet a higher standard for jurisdiction than the one set forth by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (the “FSIA”). CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd. v. Antrix Corp., No. 23-1201. Though the Court’s opinion is fairly narrow and non-controversial, it suggests that future efforts by foreign nation

Partner Andrew Vail was recently installed as Chicago Bar Association (CBA)’s Secretary for the 2025-2026 term.  

On June 30, the Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in GHP Management Corporation v. City of Los Angeles. The case arose out of a COVID-era eviction moratorium enacted by the City of Los Angeles which barred landlords from evicting tenants due to COVID-related non-payment of rent. Los Angeles landlords sued the city, arguing that the moratorium constituted a per se physical taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause which prohibits the taking of “private pro

In a win for landlords, on June 6th, 2025, the Federal Circuit denied the government’s petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in Darby Development Company, Inc. v. United States.

Partners Matt Hellman and Lindsay Harrison earned the prestigious title of Litigators of the Week from The American Lawyer for their second Fourth Circuit victory on behalf of Marriott.

This week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a complete victory for Marriott, reversing for the second time a district court’s certification of what would have been the largest class action arising from a data security incident in US history. If the ruling had been allowed to stand, the district court’s class certification order would have had enormous implications for class litigation, multidistrict litigation, and class-action waivers.