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Eric Schwartz a Panelist at Arbitration Conference on ‘Finality of Awards’
23 Jul 2010

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2010 — Eric Schwartz, a partner in the international arbitration practice of King & Spalding, will be a speaker at a live conference titled “International Arbitration and Finality of Awards — A Tour D'Horizon,” at Georgetown University Law Center on September 28. The program is sponsored by West LegalEdcenter.

The conference will address the following issues:

What determines finality?
When is an award clothed with res judicata?
When do arbitrators lose their power to decide?
Are international arbitrators prevented from revisiting and reconsidering their own prior awards?
Do intervening or changed circumstances justify revision of an award intended to be final?

Schwartz and a fellow panelist will focus on the topic of “Reconsideration and Changed Circumstances,” including a discussion of whether international arbitrators are prevented from revisiting and reconsidering their own prior awards, and whether labels make a difference.

For more information or to register go to: http://westlegaledcenter.com/program_guide/course_detail.jsf?courseId=29150546.

Schwartz, who is resident in King & Spalding’s Paris office, is a former secretary general of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Over the past 30 years, he has acted on behalf of some of the world’s largest companies, public authorities and sovereign states in international arbitration proceedings in all of the principal European arbitration venues, as well as in Asia and the United States. He has particular experience in disputes arising out of major infrastructure projects and in the oil and gas, telecommunications and information industries.

About King & Spalding
Celebrating 125 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Houston, London, New York, Paris, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and, according to a Corporate Counsel survey in August 2009, ranks fifth in its total number of representations of those companies. For additional information, visit www.kslaw.com.


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