The National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC) - the public-policy law firm of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America - plays a major role in shaping public policy on important legal questions of national concern to American business while achieving long-range improvements in the legal system.  Since its inception in 1977, the Litigation Center has participated in more than 1,500 cases as the voice of business in the courts.  Read more.

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Supreme Court in Jones v. Harris Associates, L.P., urging the Court to head off a new wave of frivolous lawsuits regarding the management fees that mutual funds pay their investment advisers. Read more.

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—On August 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc. The result is an extremely positive development for employers concerned with protecting the confidentiality of business records that are the subject of a government search warrant. Read more in a Case Alert here.

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Robin Conrad, executive vice president of the National Chamber Litigation Center, explains in a recent Santa Clara Law Review article that the Supreme Court is not pro-business as many in the media have suggested. Read the article here.