Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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Since its founding in the early 1900s in Seattle, Washington, Davis Wright Tremaine has continued to grow and change in response to the needs of its clients. Today the firm is organized by practice industry groups, and offers a wide range of legal services to regional, national and international clients through offices in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, Washington D.C., New York and Shanghai, China. A state-of-the-art communications network provides our clients the benefit of immediate access to shared knowledge, experience and resources of attorneys firm-wide. Dedicated to a tradition of public and professional service, the people of Davis Wright Tremaine are active in professional groups at the national, state and local levels.

General Civil and Trial Practice. Admiralty, Aircraft Industry, Antitrust, Banking and Commercial Finance, Business and Corporate, Canada Practice, China Practice, Commercial Transactions, Communications and Media, Construction Law and Government Contracts, Copyrights, Corporate Finance, Credit Recovery and Bankruptcy, Emerging Business and Technology, Employee Benefits, Employment and Labor Law, Energy, Entertainment, Environmental, Financial Institutions, Food and Agriculture, Government Investigations, Health Law, Hospitality, Immigration, Information Technologies, Intellectual Property, International, Internet and eCommerce, Litigation, Maritime and Fisheries, Mergers and Acquisitions, Natural Resources, Patent Licensing, Patents, Real Estate and Land Use, Regulatory, Retail, Securities, Shanghai Software, Sports Law, Tax, Trusts and Estates, Telecommunications, Trademarks and White Collar Criminal Defense.

2nd Circuit Opens Door to Climate Change Lawsuits
Craig Gannett, Lauren Wishnie, October 15, 2009
In a landmark decision, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied a motion to dismiss Connecticut v. American Electric Power ("AEP"), a lawsuit brought by a collection of states, the City of New York, and several nonprofit organizations against six of the largest U.S. electric...

DOE Issues New Loan Guarantee Solicitation for Renewable Energy Projects
John W. Hanley, Lauren Wishnie, October 15, 2009
On Oct. 7, 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a new solicitation for applications for loan guarantees to be issued under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Recovery Act"). This solicitation makes up to $750 million in funding available for DOE...

Intermittent Rest Periods in Washington: An Underutilized Option
Michael J. Killeen, Sheehan Sullivan Weiss, October 15, 2009
Nonexempt employees in Washington state must be allowed at least 10 minutes of paid rest for every four hours worked. That means a total of 10 minutes of break time; it does not mean that each rest break has to be 10 consecutive minutes. It is acceptable under Washington law to allow a series of...

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