At the 13th Annual Legal Reform Summit on October 24, 2012, we pulled aside John B. Bellinger, III, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP , to discuss a the panel he moderated on the topic of trends in use of the U.S. courts by non-U.S. citizens and residents, as exemplified by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the Ecuadorian litigation against Chevron Corporation.  This panel also addressed the flip side of the coin:  the spread in Europe and elsewhere of US-style litigation, especially class actions, against multinational companies. 

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