Chinese and Southeast Asian investment banks are fighting especially hard for market share, while some French banks are switching their focus to Asian bond markets, away from Europe where activity is slow.

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One possible new territory where preemption is not a big problem is litigation over environmental debacles. (Witness the recent extraction of money from gasoline refiners who damaged groundwater with a federally approved additive.) The tort mavens also talked about switching to securities law, a field not especially starving for practitioners.

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