Legal ramifications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

How has the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico affected law, politics, and commerce?

Our Law Firm Memos database offers a good starting point for tackling that very big question.  If you do a text search on “Deepwater Horizon,” you get 27 examples of in-depth legal commentary  on the oil spill and its impact.  The latest is yesterday’s “Spillover from the Spill,” courtesy of the smart folks at K&L Gates.