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The Third Circuit revived a suit Friday by the insurer and owner of a Phi= ladelphia apartment building seeking coverage from Security National Insura= nce Co. for $30 million in settlements after a construction accident injure= d two workers.

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3rd Circ. Revives $30M Balcony Collapse Coverage Suit =

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By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit revived a suit F= riday by the insurer and owner of a Philadelphia apartment building seeking= coverage from Security National Insurance Co. for $30 million in settlemen= ts after a construction accident injured two workers.

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DC Circ. Vacates DOE Boiler Efficiency Rule

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By Madeline Lyskawa

The D.C. Circuit upended the U.S. = Department of Energy's energy efficiency standards for boilers used in comm= ercial and multifamily residential buildings, finding Friday that the agenc= y has again failed to properly support its reasoning after its last trip to= the appellate court.

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Beacon Roofing Will Buy Back $804.5M In Stock From PE = Firm

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By Parker Quinlan

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. on Frid= ay announced an agreement to repurchase $804.5 million in preferred stock f= rom private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC that Beacon had sol= d in exchange for funding to buy a rival company's U.S. distribution networ= k.

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NYC Mayor's Supporters Ran Straw Donor Scam, DA Says

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By Rachel Scharf

Six people, including construction= company managers and an accountant, were charged in Manhattan state court = Friday with using straw donors to inflate public funding of Mayor Eric Adam= s' 2021 campaign in the hopes of obtaining city contracts once Adams took o= ffice.

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RISING STAR

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Rising Star: Mattos Filho's Alexandre Arlota

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By Chuck Slothower

Alexandre Arlota of Mattos Filho h= as advised owners of some of Latin America's largest natural gas plants and= wind and solar installations, earning him a spot among the construction la= w practitioners honored by Law360's Rising Stars.

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LITIGATION

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Construction Co. Says Insurer Must Pay For Crash Settl= ement

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By Hope Patti

A highway construction company sai= d its subcontractor's insurer must pay for the settlement of an underlying = suit over multiple motorcycle accidents that killed one and injured two oth= ers, telling a North Carolina federal court that the incidents were caused = by its subcontractor's failure to properly place work zone signage.

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Ex-VP Of Family Construction Co. Sued After Starting R= ival Biz

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By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina custom home build= er is suing its founder's son for allegedly absconding with a client to for= m his own rival business and continuing to trade on the family name even af= ter he was booted from the company, according to a state business court com= plaint.

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Munich Re Denied Reconsideration Of Fire Coverage Loss=

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By Riley Murdock

A Pennsylvania federal judge rejec= ted a Munich Re unit's request to rethink his March ruling tossing the insu= rer's fire coverage suit against a roofing company, standing firm on his de= cision to keep litigation concerning the underlying blaze in state court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Ghosting In BigLaw: How To Come Back From Lack Of Feed= back

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Junior associates can feel powerle= ss when senior colleagues cut off contact instead of providing useful feedb= ack, but young attorneys can get back on track by focusing on practical pro= fessional development and reexamining their career priorities, says Rachel = Patterson at Orrick.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Legal Industry Adds 5,100 Jobs In June

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By Kevin Penton

June's jobs report countered the n= arrative that the legal industry is bleeding jobs, with the sector in June = gaining approximately 5,100 jobs from the previous month, according to prel= iminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Nixon Peabody, Stroock Nix Their Merger Talks

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By Kevin Penton

Nixon Peabody LLP and Stroock &= ; Stroock & Lavan LLP have called off their merger talks, Stroock confi= rmed Friday.

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BCLP Co-Chair To Become Global CEO

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By Andrea Keckley

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP an= nounced Friday that it has chosen one of its co-chairs to assume overall le= adership of the firm as its global CEO.

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Perkins Coie Atty Ripped For Recruiting Court Clerk Mi= d-Trial

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By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge rejecte= d chipmaker NXP's request to declare a mistrial Friday in Impinj's $18.9 mi= llion patent case after learning Impinj's counsel at Perkins Coie LLP encou= raged the judge's clerk to join the firm once his clerkship ends, but said = the attorney's conduct was "totally inappropriate" and should "never happen= ."

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Hughes Hubbard Beats Retired IP Head In Email Access F= ight

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By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge declined= Friday to force Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP to allow retired intellectua= l property partner James Dabney continued access to firm email after a hear= ing in which Dabney said he used that email to bill a client separately.

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Twitter Rips Wachtell's $90M Fee Battling Musk To Clos= e Sale

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By Hailey Konnath

Twitter has accused Wachtell Lipto= n Rosen & Katz of exploiting "lame duck fiduciaries" as it "ran up the = tab" and collected a "gargantuan" $90 million fee helping it defeat Elon Mu= sk's effort to back out of his $44 billion acquisition, according to a laws= uit filed in San Francisco County court.

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Colleagues Remember Atty Marisa Maleck After Death At = 37

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By Ali Sullivan

Marisa C. Maleck, a King & Spa= lding LLP attorney and former U.S. Supreme Court clerk who died in April at= age 37, is being remembered by colleagues as an intellectually curious and= vibrant presence in Washington.

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Latham Partners Help Legal Aid DC Launch Endowment=

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By Alison Knezevich

A new $5 million endowment establi= shed by Legal Aid DC, with the help of supporters including Latham & Wa= tkins LLP, will boost efforts to provide services to low-income residents, = in a move that aims to ensure long-term financial stability in times of unc= ertainty.

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Giuliani Should Be Disbarred, DC Ethics Panel Says=

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By Alison Knezevich

A Washington, D.C., attorney ethic= s panel has unanimously recommended that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for his= efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn Pennsylvania's 2020= election results.

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Atty Can't Nix Anti-BLM Tweet Case As Disciplinary Tri= al Ends

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By Gina Kim

Attorney Marla Brown moved to dism= iss disciplinary charges Friday at the close of a California State Bar tria= l over her tweets calling for Black Lives Matter protestors to be shot, but= the judge declined to toss the case, calling it "complex," and asking for = additional briefing on First Amendment issues.

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NJ Attys Who Misuse Client Funds May Get 2nd Chance

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By Jack Karp

Disbarment for New Jersey attorney= s caught stealing client funds shouldn't always be permanent, and at least = some of those lawyers should be offered a path to earn back their licenses = as they are in most states, according to a report published Friday.

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Analysis

Justices Eye Intersection Of Domestic Violence, Gun Ri= ghts

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By Marco Poggio

In the fall, the U.S. Supreme Cour= t will hear a case centering on the intersection of gun rights and domestic= violence. Legal experts say it could be one of several cases involving the= Second Amendment the court will be called to decide following its landmark= ruling on gun rights last year.

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Trump Jr. To Testify In Michael Cohen's $1M Legal Fee = Trial

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By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York state judge said F= riday that Donald Trump Jr. should testify in a civil trial later this mont= h in which Michael Cohen seeks $990,000 from the Trump Organization to cove= r legal bills he claims he incurred because of his work for the company.

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Ex-Clerk Urges 2nd Circ. To Revive Sexual Harassment S= uit

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By Emily Sawicki

A former New York law clerk who ac= cused the state's judicial system of covering up for a judge she says sexua= lly harassed her asked the Second Circuit on Friday to revive her suit afte= r it was thrown out, arguing the district court "erroneously applied" a mul= tifactor test and "applied incorrect legal standards."

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Mich. Justices Preserve Court Funding Through Criminal= Fees

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By Carolyn Muyskens

A divided Michigan Supreme Court o= n Friday rejected a constitutional attack on the judiciary's ability to rai= se money by levying fees on criminal defendants, with some justices calling= for a legislative fix and two dissenting to say they would have struck dow= n the court-funding mechanism altogether.

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Sugarman Owed $350K In Failed Merger, Mass. Court Affi= rms

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By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts appellate court on= Friday upheld a jury's award of more than $350,000 in damages to Suga= rman & Sugarman PC for work by its attorneys and paralegals during an u= ltimately failed merger with a smaller workers' compensation practice.

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Northwestern Suspends Football Coach After Hazing Inci= dents

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By Elaine Brise=F1o

Northwestern University has initia= ted a two-week suspension, without pay, for its head football coach followi= ng a monthslong investigation led by ArentFox Schiff LLP that the school la= unched after receiving an anonymous tip last winter about ongoing hazing wi= thin the program, according to a statement released Friday.

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Feds Say Fake Angel Investor Stole $1.6M, Impersonated= Atty

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By Khadrice Rollins

A New York man has been charged wi= th stealing $1.6 million from four people by falsely claiming to be an ange= l investor in a startup company and allegedly impersonating an attorney who= was purportedly involved in the investments.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

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By Kevin Penton

Proskauer Rose, Kirkland and Goodw= in Procter head this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, as a California = federal jury cleared Gilead Sciences Inc. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industrie= s Ltd. in a $3.6 billion antitrust case.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week=

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By Sue Reisinger

Twitter is worried that Meta hired= away workers to build Threads, the new Meta app that copies Twitter's abil= ities. And California's Supreme Court says employers are not required to pr= otect a worker's family from COVID-19.

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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 H= SBC and Credit Suisse sued by an asset management company accused of lying = about being part of HSBC, Amgen hit rival pharmaceutical giant Janssen with= a patent claim, and 40 businesses and individuals join the legal battle ag= ainst law firm Metis Law for not warning them of an alleged Ponzi scheme. H= ere, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On La= w360

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For those who missed out, here's a= look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the= most buzz on Law360 last week.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aircastle Limited

Altria Group Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American International Group In= c.

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Amgen Inc.

Atlantic Inc.

BNSF Railway Co.

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc.

Brennan Center for Justice

Brooklyn Law School

Citizens Equity First Credit = Union

Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC

Coinbase Global Inc.

Community Health Resources

Credit Suisse Group AG

Dealogic LLC

Ferring BV

Finch Therapeutics Group Inc.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

M1 Ltd.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Munich Re Group

NXP Semiconductors NV

New Fortress Energy LLC

Nike Inc.

Philadelphia Contributionship

Phillips 66

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Inc.

Spire Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

State Bar of California

Stonepeak Infrastructure Partn= ers

TC Energy Corp.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industrie= s Ltd.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Football Association Ltd.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.


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LAW = FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Devonshires Solicitors

Stokoe Partnership Solicitors

Stroock & Stroock

Sugarman & Sugarman

Thompson Hine

Varner & Van Volkenburg

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California Supreme Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Competition and Markets Authori= ty

Delaware Court of Chancery

Department for Work & Pensions=

European Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Food and Drug Administration

Michigan Attorney General'= s Office

National Labor Relations Board

New York City Police Department

North Carolina Depart= ment of Transportation

U.S. Army

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

U.S. Copyright Office

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

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

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

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S= . District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

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