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A subsidiary of steel company Evraz PLC has sued a construction company i= t hired for a $302 million expansion of a Colorado steel mill, allegin= g that the construction company caused more than $130 million in damages by= performing shoddy, incomplete work, endangering workers and creating delay= s.

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TOP NEWS

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Steel Co. Sues Construction Firms Over $300M Mill Expa= nsion

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By Daniel Ducassi

A subsidiary of steel company Evra= z PLC has sued a construction company it hired for a $302 million expansion= of a Colorado steel mill, alleging that the construction company caus= ed more than $130 million in damages by performing shoddy, incomplete work,= endangering workers and creating delays.

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Tribe Not Too Late To Recoup Fees In Bribe Case, Feds = Say

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By Elliot Weld

Federal prosecutors are asking a M= assachusetts judge to grant their late request for restitution to the Mashp= ee Wampanoag Tribe following the bribery conviction of its former chairman,= despite missing a deadline to seek compensation for legal fees.

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CIT Unrolls Aluminum Sheet Scope Ruling

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By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Court of International Tr= ade sent a scope ruling involving aluminum sheet by an automotive parts man= ufacturer back to the U.S. Department of Commerce, saying the agency's scop= e interpretation for anti-dumping duty purposes exceeded statutory analysis= limits.

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3M, Others Ask 6th Circ. To Undo Class Cert. In PFAS S= uit

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By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

3M, Chemours and other chemical co= mpanies Wednesday asked the Sixth Circuit to overturn an Ohio federal judge= 's decision to certify a class of plaintiffs who claim the businesses knowi= ngly put their health at risk for decades by selling and distributing "fore= ver chemicals."

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POLICY & REGULATION

Analysis

Biggest Environmental Policy Actions Of 2022

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By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Congressional Democrats gave Presi= dent Joe Biden a huge legislative win in 2022 with the Inflation Reduction = Act, which contained billions for environmental projects. Along with climat= e, chemical and environmental justice regulatory actions, the Biden adminis= tration continued to take a drastically different policy path from the one = that preceded it.

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LITIGATION

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NLRB Member Says 'Majority Ignores Reality' In Pension= Row

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By Beverly Banks

A split National Labor Relations B= oard panel determined that a concrete company must bargain with a union aft= er it unlawfully withdrew recognition, with a dissenting board member sayin= g the "majority ignores reality" over whether the union knew about the comp= any's exclusion of workers from pension and annual profit-sharing payments.

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Building Code Nonprofit Accuses Calif. Rival Of Rippin= g Off IP

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By Dorothy Atkins

A nonprofit that creates model bui= lding codes hit a California for-profit company with a copyright infringeme= nt suit in New York federal court Thursday, accusing the rival of "commerci= ally exploiting" its copyrighted international and custom building codes an= d publishing them online, while also removing some of the nonprofit's copyr= ight notices.

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4th Circ. Says Green Groups Can't Sue Over Trump NEPA = Rule

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By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday uph= eld a lower court's decision to toss environmental groups' challenge to a T= rump-era rule overhauling the National Environmental Policy Act, finding th= e groups lacked standing.

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Feds Also Want ND Kept Out Of DC Circ. Riverbed Row

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By Caleb Symons

The federal government says North = Dakota should not be allowed to participate in litigation over a Native Ame= rican tribe's bid to profit off mineral deposits under the Missouri River, = arguing that the case no longer involves state interests now that ownership= of the riverbed is not at issue.

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CIT Backs Commerce's Surrogate For Chinese Millwork Du= ties

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By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Court of International Tr= ade backed the U.S. Department of Commerce's choice of Brazil for surrogate= data in calculating anti-dumping duties on wood moulding and millwork prod= ucts from China, saying Commerce clearly established why its choice was rea= sonable.

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Analysis

The Biggest Environmental Law Decisions Of 2022 =09

By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Supreme Court broke impor= tant ground in 2022 with a long-awaited decision limiting the federal gover= nment's power to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, a jury in Mic= higan failed to decide whether public officials were liable for a lead-cont= aminated drinking water crisis, and a federal appeals court upheld the Bide= n administration's authority to craft greenhouse gas cost metrics.

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BANKRUPTCY

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Paint Pigment Maker Can Tap $55M In Ch. 11 Financing

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By Vince Sullivan

Paint pigment maker DCL Holdings U= SA Inc. received permission Thursday from a Delaware bankruptcy court to ac= cess a $55 million debtor-in-possession facility provided by some of its pr= epetition secured lenders.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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How Ga. Employers Can Allay Evolving Workers' Comp Ris= k

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As flexible employment arrangement= s become increasingly common, Emily Truitt at Swift Currie addresses how Ge= orgia employers with traveling and remote workers can mitigate the risk of = workers' compensation claims and how to handle investigations after an acci= dent.

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What 3 Legal Industry Trends From 2022 Mean For Next Y= ear

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Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey= & Africa looks back on the year in legal recruiting, including practic= e areas that saw the most movement, which regions seemed most ripe for new = office openings and who was promoted to partner, and makes some look-ahead = predictions for 2023.=20

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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4 Places Where BigLaw Firms Flocked In 2022

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By Kevin Penton and Aebra Coe

Larger law firms increasingly expa= nded their turf into locales such as Miami, Chicago and Washington, D.C., i= n 2022, following the business generated by emerging companies and industri= es expanding into new terrain.

Read full article »

Bonus Spotlight

Orrick Giving Associates The Gift Of Time As Well As M= oney

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By Tracey Read

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe = LLP associates will receive year-end bonuses that mostly match the scale se= t by Baker McKenzie in November, according to news reports Thursday.

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SEC Promoting Ex-WilmerHale Atty To Be New GC

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By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange C= ommission announced Thursday that Dan Berkovitz will step down as general c= ounsel next month to be replaced by the agency's deputy general counsel, wh= o once overlapped with him at law firm WilmerHale.

Read full article »

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Gov. Hochul Nominates Justice LaSalle For NY Chief Jud= ge

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By Tracey Read

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday th= at she has nominated Presiding Second Appellate Division Justice Hector LaS= alle as the next chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.

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White House Aide Says Atty Told Her To Mislead Jan. 6 = Panel

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By Dave Simpson

The special House committee invest= igating the Jan. 6 riots released interview transcripts from two witnesses = Thursday, including one from a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff= Mark Meadows, who alleges that a Michael Best & Friedrich LLP attorney= urged her to withhold information from the panel.

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Elon Musk's Attorney Alex Spiro Is Restless, Literally=

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By Anna Sanders

Trial attorney and Quinn Emanuel U= rquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro has developed a reputation fo= r his high-profile cases, pro bono work and eccentric clientele, including = Elon Musk and Jay-Z.

Read full article »

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Bankman-Fried Insiders Tap BigLaw Firepower For Defens= e

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By Jessica Corso

Two members of indicted FTX founde= r Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle have tapped former federal prosecutors a= nd the onetime leader of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enfo= rcement division to steer them through cooperation agreements with federal = investigators.

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Ill. Court Affirms Morgan Lewis Win In BDO Tax Shelter= Case

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By Celeste Bott

An Illinois appellate panel has af= firmed Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's win over claims the firm conspired = to help cover up illegal tax shelters that landed some former executives at= accounting firm BDO in prison, saying the former BDO clients who brought t= he suit knew about their injury roughly a decade prior.

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Full Fed. Circ. Urged To Halt Del. Judge's Funding 'In= quisition'

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By Ryan Davis

Nimitz Technologies LLC urged the = full Federal Circuit Wednesday to undo a Delaware judge's order requiring t= he company to produce documents about who is funding its patent suits, call= ing the order an "inquisition" that is "unheard of in the annals of the com= mon law."

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In Londo= n

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By Tabitha Burbidge

The past week in London has seen f= resh legal action brought against PrivatBank's former owner Bogolyubov over= sham transactions, law firm Farrer & Co launch commercial fraud claims= against five major banks, and the U.K. government's PPE supplier sued over= its £122 million contract. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

AXA XL Ltd.

Abu Dhabi National Insurance= Co. PSC

Amedisys Inc.

American Farm Bureau Federation<= /a>

American Petroleum Institute In= c.

American Road = & Transportation Builders Association

Archroma

Arrow Electronics Inc.

BDO USA LLP

Bank of America Corp.

Barclays PLC

Bloomberg

Brixmor Property Group Inc.

Defenders of Wildlife

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Earthjustice

Edison Electric Institute Inc.

Fordham University

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer= Healthcare Ltd.

H.I.G. Capital LLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

International Code Council Inc.

Knights PLC

LVMH Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

MasTec Inc.

Monsanto Co.

National Associatio= n of Clean Water Agencies

National Trust for Hist= oric Preservation

New England Patriots LP

New York Law School

New York University

Ripple Labs Inc.

Russell Investments Group LLC

Societe Generale

Southern Environmental Law Cen= ter

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Valeo SA

Veolia Environnement SA

Wanzek Construction Inc.


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LAW = FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Martin G. Weinberg Attorney at Law=

Shakespeare Martineau

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Central Intelligence Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Co= mmission

Council on Environmental Quality=

Executive Office of the Preside= nt

Fish and Wildlife Service

Georgia Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

National Labor Relations Board

National Marine Fisheries Servi= ce

New York City Police Department

Three Af= filiated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Atto= rney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S= . Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy= Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Co= urt of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals= for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeal= s for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals= for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals = for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Cou= rt for the District of Delaware

U.S. Distric= t Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. D= istrict Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Dis= trict Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection= Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United = States District Court for the District of Colorado

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