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The liquidating trustee in Klausner Lumber Two LLC's Chapter 11 bankruptc= y case agreed to settle an unsecured claim of more than $18.8 million from = two claimants that were new market tax credit lenders to the sawmill for al= most $6 million in cash, the trustee has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge.

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Trustee In Sawmill's Ch. 11 Seeks $6M Set= tlement Payout OK

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By Emlyn Cameron

The liquidating trustee in Klausne= r Lumber Two LLC's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case agreed to settle an unsecured= claim of more than $18.8 million from two claimants that were new market t= ax credit lenders to the sawmill for almost $6 million in cash, the trustee= has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge.

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Amerisure Must Cover Crane Damage Suit, C= ontractor Says

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By Hope Patti

An Amerisure unit must defend and = indemnify a utility contractor in an underlying lawsuit over a 200-ton cran= e that was damaged when it fell through the ground at a jobsite, the contra= ctor has told a Georgia federal court, saying its insurer's reliance on var= ious policy exclusions is misplaced.

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Mich. Jury Awards $4M To Trucker Crushed = By Equipment

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By Jonathan Capriel

A Michigan federal jury has hit a = seller of pre-owned industrial equipment with a $4.5 million verdict on cla= ims its employee allowed a 4,000-pound load to fall on a truck driver despi= te knowing the employee was a "poorly trained" hi-lo forklift operator whom= colleagues were afraid to work with.

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Insurer Says $58M Wrongful Death Judgment= Not Covered

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By Jennifer Mandato

An Oklahoma City construction comp= any's insurer has told a federal court that it doesn't have to indemnify th= e company for a $58 million judgment against it in an underlying wrongful d= eath suit, stating the company breached its policy by entering into a pretr= ial agreement to pay a guaranteed sum.

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Judge Accepts Feds' Logic For Aluminum Du= ty Expansion

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By Alyssa Aquino

The U.S. Court of International Tr= ade has signed off on the U.S. Department of Commerce's inclusion of an aut= omaker's heat-treated aluminum imports in duty orders targeting Chinese alu= minum sheet, finding that Commerce had sufficiently explained its decision.

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Insurer Wants Out Of Georgia Camp's Tree-= Cutting Dispute

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By Elizabeth Daley

An insurer has told a Georgia fede= ral court it should not have to defend developers blamed for wrongfully cut= ting down 120 feet of trees on a property line shared with a children's sum= mer camp.

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Trump's Experts Can Testify In NY Fraud T= rial, Judge Rules

=09

By Frank G. Runyeon

Donald Trump on Thursday defeated = a bid by the New York attorney general to exclude four defense experts in t= he attorney general's civil fraud trial against the former president and hi= s real estate empire, with the state judge presiding over the fraud trial s= aying his decision to allow the testimony stemmed from a desire not to be o= verturned on appeal.

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PEOPLE

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Crowell Brings On Stroock Litigator And H= is 9-Atty Team In NY

=09

By Xiumei Dong

Crowell & Moring LLP announced= Monday that it has brought on a litigation partner and his team of nine la= wyers from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP as the legacy New York fir= m undergoes dissolution.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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A Bird's Eye View Of NYC's New Parapet In= spection Law

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Building owners in New York City s= hould be ready for the city's new parapet inspection requirements going int= o effect in January, which will likely necessitate additional construction = work for countless buildings not previously subject to formal inspections, = says Benjamin Fox Tracy at Braverman Greenspun.

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A Look At Successful Bid Protests In FY 2= 023

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Attorneys at Sheppard Mullin look = beyond the statistics in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s = recent annual report on bid protests, sharing their insights about nine cat= egories of sustained protests, gained from reading every fiscal year 2023 d= ecision in which the protester had a positive result.

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Navigating Discovery Of Generative AI In= formation

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As generative artificial intellige= nce tools become increasingly ubiquitous, companies must make sure to prese= rve generative AI data when there is reasonable expectation of litigation, = and to include transcripts in litigation hold notices, as they may be relev= ant to discovery requests, say Nick Peterson and Corey Hauser at Wiley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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How Military Service Bolstered These Atto= rneys' Careers

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By Tracey Read

Attorneys who are also veterans sp= oke to Law360 Pulse recently about how their experience in the military hel= ped them transition into law, and why law firms should actively recruit vet= erans.

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A&O Hit By Cyberattack As Shearman Me= rger Looms

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By Marialuisa Taddia

Allen & Overy LLP confirmed on= Thursday that it has been hit by a ransomware attack, less than a month af= ter sealing a merger with Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.

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NY Bar Groups Seek To End Atty Brick-And-= Mortar Office Rules

=09

By Lynn LaRowe

The New York State and New York Ci= ty bar associations urged Gov. Kathy Hochul in a joint letter on Wednesday = to sign a bill repealing the century-old requirement that lawyers admitted = to practice in the state maintain physical office space, saying it is "anti= quated" and its early purpose no longer exists.

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Mich. State Bar Says Judges Ethically Mus= t Keep Up With AI

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By Emma Cueto

The State Bar of Michigan has issu= ed an opinion stating that judges have an ethical obligation to understand = advancing technology, including artificial intelligence, and to ensure its = use in the legal system is consistent with the law, making Michigan one of = the first state bars to explicitly address the issue.

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Ga. Joins States With Military Spouse Att= y Licensing Process

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By Andrea Keckley

Ahead of Veterans Day, the Supreme= Court of Georgia announced Thursday that it has revised its rules to creat= e an admissions process for military spouses licensed to practice law in a = state outside Georgia.

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Google In-House Attys Joked About 'Fake P= rivilege,' Jury Told

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By Bonnie Eslinger

Two in-house Google lawyers commun= icating on an internal company chat joked about "fake privilege" — a = practice of unnecessarily involving a lawyer in a matter to make it confide= ntial — an attorney for Epic Games showed jurors in a California fede= ral antitrust case against the tech giant.

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Inflexion To Sell Chambers To PE Firm In = £400M Deal

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By Marialuisa Taddia

Private equity group Inflexion sai= d on Friday that it has agreed to sell Chambers and Partners to Abry Partne= rs in a deal that values the legal rankings giant at more than £400 mi= llion ($490 million).

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Analysis

Paul Clement's Big Idea: Overrule Chevron= , Ease Polarization

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By Jeff Overley

America's entrenched political pol= arization has been blamed on gerrymandering, cable news, social media, demo= graphics and other intractable issues. But one of the U.S. Supreme Court ba= r's most accomplished advocates sees a solution hiding in plain sight: a ru= ling in his favor in perhaps the biggest showdown of the high court's term.

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Barrett On High Court Colleagues: 'Heat S= tays On The Page'

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By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Con= ey Barrett described the atmosphere among the justices as "collegial" while= speaking at a Federalist Society event Thursday night, adding that the nin= e try not to let their ideological differences spill over into their interp= ersonal relationships.

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NYC Mayor Retains WilmerHale Amid Federal= Probe

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By Andrea Keckley

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has= hired WilmerHale as the federal government investigates his campaign fundr= aising operation, with his former chief counsel acting as co-leader of the = BigLaw team, Law360 Pulse has learned.

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New Calif., Mich. District Judges Includ= e Pro Bono Advocate

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By Courtney Buble

The U.S. Senate voted 51-44 on Thu= rsday to confirm Mónica Ramírez Almadani to the Central District = of California and voted 53-42 to confirm assistant U.S. attorney Brandy McM= illion to the Eastern District of Michigan, setting a record for Black judg= es, and for people of color overall, confirmed to the bench under President= Joe Biden.

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Ariz. And Pa. Federal Judges To Take Sen= ior Status

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By Ryan Boysen

Two federal judges in Arizona and = Pennsylvania have announced they will take senior status next year, potenti= ally allowing President Joe Biden to appoint their successors.

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Sen. Judiciary Panel Delays Subpoena Vot= e After GOP Threat

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By Courtney Buble

The Senate Judiciary Committee pos= tponed its planned vote Thursday on whether to authorize subpoenas of influ= ential conservatives Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo in Democrats' Supreme Cour= t ethics probe — a move Sen. Dick Durbin attributed to "scheduling is= sues" but that also followed Republicans' threat to press for their ow= n subpoenas.

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OneCoin Legal, Compliance Exec Cops To C= rypto Fraud

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By Khadrice Rollins

A Bulgarian woman pled guilty in M= anhattan federal court Thursday to her role in the $4 billion OneCoin globa= l multilevel marketing cryptocurrency scam that ran from 2014 through 2019.

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Returning Crowell Atty Talks 'Existentia= l' Threat Of FCA Wave

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By Ken Downey Jr.

Michael Shaheen, a former U.S. Dep= artment of Justice trial attorney, has returned to his former law firm, Cro= well & Moring LLP, where he'll draw on his long experience in False Cla= ims Act work amid fears of a new wave of post-pandemic fraud claims.

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'Going Home In A Body Bag': Abuse Claims= Surface In TM Row

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By Andrew Karpan

The Washington, D.C.-based tradema= rk board has banned a notable Columbia Law School professor from comin= g anywhere near the deposition of one of his former employees and one of hi= s former students, following complaints about his "continued verbal abuse a= nd occasional physical intimidation."

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Atty Reprimanded For Coaching Client Dur= ing Zoom Depo

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By Julie Manganis

An attorney caught whispering answ= ers to his client during a 2021 deposition conducted via Zoom has received = a public reprimand from the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

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9th Circ. Urged To DQ Judge, Revive Gov'= t Vax Mandate Case

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By Aaron West

A group of federal workers and con= tractors brought its denied disqualification bid to the Ninth Circuit this = week, asking the appellate court to side with the workers in their push to = have a Southern District of California judge step down from their vacc= ine mandate lawsuit due to financial conflict concerns.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

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By Kevin Penton

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, W= inston & Strawn LLP and Spector Roseman & Kodroff PC lead this week= 's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California judge certified three c= lasses of athletes challenging NCAA restrictions on their name, image and l= ikeness rights.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate Ne= ws Of The Week

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By Michele Gorman

A recently released study shows th= at while general counsel want more diversity from outside law firms, many a= ren't taking steps to make that a reality. Meanwhile, a former top corporat= e lawyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison for an attempted bribe o= ver an airport project. These are among the stories in corporate legal news= you may have missed in the past week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You M= issed In London

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By Tabitha Burbidge

The past week in London has seen B= arclays and Santander face the music in a group claim from investors involv= ed in a failed film-financing scheme, AmTrust bring legal action against th= e insurer of failed law firm Pure Legal, and investment bank Greenhill begi= n legal action against shuttered law firm Ince Gordon Dadds. Here, Law360 l= ooks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And= Stories On Law360

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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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Podcast

Law360's Pro Say: At Trial, SBF Was His = Own Worst Enemy

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Last week's conviction of cryptocu= rrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was fueled in part by the FTX founder's = unusual decision to take the stand in his own defense, an ambitious gambit = that did not pay off, as Bankman-Fried now faces decades in prison for his = crimes.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APTIM Corp.

ASRC Federal Holding Co.

Agricultural Retailers Associ= ation

Amentum Services Inc.

American Bar Association

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.

Apple Inc.

Arabella Advisors

Atain Specialty Insurance Co.

Burford Capital LLC

Chambers and Partners

Chevron Corp.

Dolese Bros Co.

English Premier League

Environmental Defense Fund Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Federalist Society

Financial Times Group Ltd.

General Dynamics Corp.

George Washington University

Google LLC

Great American Insurance Co.

Guidehouse Inc.

HSBC Holdings PLC

Harvard University

Health Care Compliance Associ= ation

Infinite Global

International Business Ma= chines Corp.

Johns Hopkins All Childre= n's Hospital

KPMG International

Massachusetts Board of Ba= r Overseers

Match Group LLC

Monsanto Co.

National Cable &am= p; Telecommunications Association

National Collegiate Ath= letic Association

National District Attorn= eys Association

Natural Resources Defense Coun= cil

Netflix Inc.

New Civil Liberties Alliance

New York City Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

Pacific Legal Foundation

Public Counsel

Ritz-Carlton Company LLC

Soros Fund Management LLC

Spotify Technology SA

State Bar of Michigan

Supervalu Inc.

Target Corp.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industrie= s Ltd.

The Impact Fund

The New York Times Co.

The State University of New Yor= k

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

Turk Hava Yollari AO

Twitter Inc.

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University of Georgia

Valeo SA

Veritas Capital Fund Managem= ent LLC

Vinci SA


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Devonshires Solicitors

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Herbert Smith Freehills

Signature Litigation LLP

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General&= #39;s Office

European Union

Federal Acquisition Regul= atory Council

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commissi= on

Georgia Supreme Court

HM Revenue & Customs

International Trade Commission

National Security Agency

New York Attorney General'= s Office

Social Security Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney&= #39;s Office for the District of Colorado

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

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

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

U.S. Coast Guard

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

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of He= alth and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

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

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

U.S. Dist= rict Court for the Northern District of Georgia

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

U.S. Environmental Protection= Agency

U.S. General Services Adminis= tration

U.S. Government Accountabili= ty Office

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

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