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Business & Human Rights Law

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Business & Human Rights Law - Global Market Leaders

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What the Team is Known For

King & Spalding’s business and human rights practice is best known for its impressive track record of advising the world’s leading corporations on all aspects of their business, social and human rights risks and responsibilities. The law firm offers:

• Expertise in numerous fields including international arbitration, public international law, international trade, energy, mining, international employment law, global human capital and environmental law.

• A team that is at the forefront of horizon-scanning and reporting on global developments.

• A strong reputation for defending and suing major corporations and assisting human rights victims before national and international courts and human rights bodies.

Strengths

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King & Spalding have consistently performed their job and over-delivered with diligence. 

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They're a strong team with deep expertise across a number of issues. I am incredibly impressed by their ability to synthesise massive amounts of information and provide practical, actionable guidance.

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Notable Practitioners

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Douglass Cassel
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Douglass Cassel
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Band 2

Douglass Cassel is based in New York and boasts a strong reputation advising clients on a range of human rights issues. He often assists large multinational businesses on environmental disputes, and has expertise on human rights policies, compliance and frameworks to counsel clients on their human rights obligations.

He is very practical, extremely knowledgeable and has made substantial contributions to the field.

Douglass Cassel is simply one of the best lawyers I have ever worked with.

Doug has both the intellectual depth of a professor, but is also a very good practitioner. He has a solid legal brain, is bilingual, versatile and extremely open-minded. He is a true thought leader.

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Peter Hood
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Peter Hood
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London-based Peter Hood often represents large multinational corporations and can advise on a range of human right matters. His expertise particularly lies in supply chain issues, due diligence, human rights policies and compliance with modern slavery legislation.

Peter has an encyclopedic knowledge of global human rights laws and comes to the field from a really practical perspective of what we can and can't do.

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Business & Human Rights Law
Douglass Cassel
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Douglass Cassel
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Peter Hood
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Peter Hood
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