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Commercial real estate landlords are more willing than in previous cycles= to turn over the keys for their distressed properties to their lenders, bu= t creditors also face a quandary on what to do with troubled buildings, att= orneys said during a Thursday panel hosted by Law360 Real Estate Authority.

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Attys See More Borrowers Willing To Ditch= Distressed CRE

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By Charlie Innis

Commercial real estate landlords a= re more willing than in previous cycles to turn over the keys for their dis= tressed properties to their lenders, but creditors also face a quandary on = what to do with troubled buildings, attorneys said during a Thursday panel = hosted by Law360 Real Estate Authority.

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Pipeline Builder Wins $4.5M Verdict Again= st Marathon Unit

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By Daniel Ducassi

A Colorado state jury on Thur= sday awarded $4.5 million to a pipeline construction company, concluding th= at a Marathon Petroleum subsidiary wrongfully withheld final payments for a= $40 million pipeline project.

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Chicago Pol Sold His Power For Law Firm B= usiness, Jury Told

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By Celeste Bott

One of Chicago's longest-serving l= ocal politicians, former Alderman Edward Burke, used his considerable power= to "line his own pockets with money," leveraging his position to steer bus= iness to his personal law firm and attempting to get a job for a family fri= end, federal prosecutors told a Chicago federal jury Thursday.

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Green Groups Want Alaskan Oil Project Blo= cked During Appeal

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By Crystal Owens

A coalition of conservation groups= is asking a federal district court for an injunction to block ConocoPhilli= ps Alaska from beginning construction activity on its planned Willow drilli= ng project while the coalition appeals the project's approval to the Ninth = Circuit.

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State Telecom Roundup: The Biggest States= ' Broadband Gaps

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By Nadia Dreid

As the Biden administration prepar= es to start releasing some of the $42 billion it has allocated for state br= oadband expansion under the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment= 60;program, the proposals on how states plan to use the funding have begun = rolling in, revealing a lot about the current lay of the land in each state= when it comes to internet access.

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DOE Floats Looser Enviro Reviews For Clea= n Energy Projects

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By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Energy put = forth proposed amendments to its regulations governing compliance with the = National Environmental Policy Act on Thursday — measures the Ame= rican Council on Renewable Energy heralded as streamlining the siting and p= ermitting of critical transmission and clean energy projects.

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$100M In State Dept. Deals Survive Incumb= ent's Block Bid

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By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims h= as refused to block the U.S. Department of State from awarding deals worth = $100 million for technical, administrative and staffing support, rejecting = an incumbent company's claim that the awards were made via a flawed price e= valuation.

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Feds Award $192M For Conservation, Water = Projects

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By Tom Lotshaw

The Biden-Harris administration ha= s said it's steering two blocks of funding totaling more than $192 million = to support dozens of high-priority projects to conserve and restore habitat= s and manage water resources, with a significant amount of funding going to= improvements led by tribes.

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Feds Urge 1st Circ. To Affirm OK Of Mass.= Wind Energy Project

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By Madeline Lyskawa

The federal government has said th= e First Circuit should reject a group of Nantucket residents' attempt to re= vive an effort to block a massive offshore wind energy project off the coas= t of Massachusetts, arguing that it thoroughly considered the project's pot= ential impact on the North Atlantic right whale.

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Looking For Defense Contract Appeal Trend= s In Annual Report

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A deep dive into the Armed Service= s Board of Contract Appeals annual report for the 2023 fiscal year reveals = increases in the number of cases filed, pending motions and expedited or ac= celerated cases, while the board disposed of fewer cases than in prior fisc= al years, say Scott Flesch and Alexandra Prime at Miller & Chevalier.

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2nd Circ. Holding Could Disrupt SEC Disg= orgement Methods

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A recent Second Circuit decision i= n U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Govil that held disgorgement t= o be an equitable remedy has the potential to substantially disrupt the SEC= 's long-standing approach to monetary remedies in many of the cases the age= ncy brings, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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Law Firms Staying Put And Expanding In St= rong Office Market

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By Jake Maher

U.S. law firms are opting to stay = in place and expand their footprints rather than move or downsize, as the l= egal office space market stays on track for the strongest year since the CO= VID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, a new report shows.

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Ex-White House Counsel Says AI Rules Are = A Long Way Off

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By Aaron West

Legislative guardrails surrounding= artificial intelligence are still a long time coming, former White House c= ounsel Dana Remus said in a moderated conversation on Thursday in which she= discussed how public transparency surrounding AI will be key but might not= be so helpful when it comes to legislation in other areas.

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Google's CLO Gets Earful From Judge Over = Deleted Chats

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By Bonnie Eslinger

The California federal judge overs= eeing an antitrust trial over Google's Android app market tore into its Chi= ef Legal Officer Kent Walker on Thursday after ordering him to court to ans= wer questions about its evidence preservation practices, telling him "you o= f all people should have known that there was no excuse for not preserving = chats."

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5th Circ. Drops Ethics Case After Bankrup= tcy Judge Quits

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By Rick Archer

The Fifth Circuit has dropped an e= thics complaint against former Texas bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones over a= n undisclosed romantic relationship with a former Jackson Walker LLP attorn= ey, saying now that he has quit the bench he is no longer subject to discip= linary action.

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SEC Adopts Conflict Of Interest Rules For= Clearing Agencies

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By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange C= ommission on Thursday voted to adopt a regulation intended to mitigate poss= ible conflicts of interest at financial intermediaries known as clearinghou= ses by, among other things, setting a floor on the number of independent di= rectors and establishing ground rules governing firms' relationships with c= ontractors.

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NY Appeals Court Temporarily Lifts Trump = Gag Orders

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By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York appellate court justice= temporarily suspended gag orders against Donald Trump in the state attorne= y general's civil fraud case Thursday, expressing deep skepticism about the= decision to limit the former president and his attorneys from speaking abo= ut the trial judge's law clerk.

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Trump Insists Jan. 6 Irrelevant To Electi= on-Interference Case

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By Phillip Bantz

Donald Trump's lawyers argued Wedn= esday that "inflammatory allegations" of his involvement in the Jan. 6 atta= ck on the Capitol building lack a "shred of evidence" and are irrelevant to= his Washington, D.C. criminal election-interference case.

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Ga. Judge Issues Protective Order In Trum= p Election Case

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By Ryan Boysen

The Georgia state court judge over= seeing the landmark election interference racketeering case against former = President Donald Trump and others has imposed a gag order that will prevent= some discovery materials from being made public, one day after a defense a= ttorney admitted he'd leaked plea deal videos to the media.

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Manhattan DA Says Trump Must Face Hush Mo= ney Trial

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By Frank G. Runyeon

The Manhattan district attorney to= ld a New York state judge that Donald Trump's attempts to dismiss the hush = money indictment against him ignore the facts and the law, accusing the ex-= president of an "expansive and corrupt criminal scheme to conceal damaging = information from the voting public."

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DC Ethics Office Fights Ex-DOJ Atty's Bid= To Nix Case

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By Emily Sawicki

The Washington, D.C., ethics offic= e pursuing charges against a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney and= Trump ally accused of 2020 election-related ethics breaches has pushed bac= k on an attempt by the attorney to dodge the case based on what he alleged = were "inconsistent theories."

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Defense Atty Cops To Bribing SDNY Clerk = For Case Referrals

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By Rachel Scharf

A criminal defense lawyer pled gui= lty Thursday to paying tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to a clerk in= the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in exchange = for client referrals over more than a decade.

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Scholars Back NAACP In Fight Over SC Leg= al Advice Law

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By Marco Poggio

A group of legal scholars has urge= d the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to prevent a South Carol= ina law, which bars nonlawyers from giving legal advice, from applying to a= new eviction-help program by the NAACP, saying the program is necessary to= confront the state's dire access to justice crisis, court documents show.

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Hawaii Utility Investors Can't Have 3 Fi= rms Lead Maui Fire Suit

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By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has sho= t down a bid by three investors to be named joint lead plaintiffs and = for their respective counsel to be named as lead counsel in a suit against = Hawaii's largest electric utility company, saying that while the investors = have claimed their request is in the best interests of the proposed class, = they haven't shown how.

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4th Circ. To Let Woman Seek Fees In Reli= gious Rights Suit

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By Mike Curley

The Fourth Circuit is letting a Vi= rginia school board member pursue attorney fees for a judgment in her favor= on claims that the Fairfax County sheriff violated the First Amendment and= the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 by having= her photographed without her hijab.

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ACLU Sues Over Fla. Pro-Palestine Campus= Org's Shut Down

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By Lauren Berg

The American Civil Liberties Union= , on behalf of the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in= Palestine, slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis and university officials with a feder= al lawsuit Thursday, alleging their order that state universities shut down= the campus organization violates students' First Amendment rights.

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Petition Watch: Sidney Powell, Talk Ther= apy, Title IX

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By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court receives th= ousands of petitions for review each term, but only a few make the news. He= re, Law360 looks at four petitions filed in the past two weeks that you mig= ht've missed, including cases challenging attorney sanctions for frivolous = 2020 presidential election legal challenges and questions over the constitu= tionality of New York's remote talk therapist licensing regime and Title IX= disciplinary proceedings.

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COMPA= NIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Civil Liberties Union

American Council on Renew= able Energy

Apple Inc.

Arctic Slope Regional Corp.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Burger King Holdings Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Center for Biological Divers= ity Inc.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Coinbase Global Inc.

ConocoPhillips Co.

Cushman & Wakefield Inc.

Defenders of Wildlife

Earthjustice

Epic Games Inc.

Georgetown University

Google LLC

Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc.

Institute for Justice

J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

Match Group LLC

Nat= ional Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Fish & Wildlife F= oundation

Natural Resources Defense Coun= cil

The District of Columbia Bar

The Field Museum

The Neiman Marcus Group LLC

Theory LLC

Trump Organization Inc.

Univ. of South Florida

University of Southern Califor= nia

Vineyard Wind LLC


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Chalmers Adams Backer

Chandler Falconer

Cohen Cooper

Continental PLLC

Cook Craig & Francuzenko

Law Office of Steven Brendemuehl

GOVE= RNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Armed Services Board of = Contract Appeals

Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Ocean Energy Manageme= nt

Bureau of Reclamation

California Public Utiliti= es Commission

California Supreme Court

Central Intelligence Agency

Defense Contract Audit Agency

Defense Contract Management Ag= ency

Defense Logistics Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Illinois Supreme Court

Michigan Attorney General'= s Office

Missile Defense Agency

National Aeronautic= s and Space Administration

National Marine Fisheries Servi= ce

Nation= al Telecommunications and Information Administration

New York Attorney General'= s Office

South Carolina Attorney = General's Office

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S= . Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

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

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

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court= for the District of Alaska

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

U.S. Distri= ct Court for the District of South Carolina

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

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

U.S. Dis= trict Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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

U.S. Navy

U.S. Securities and Excha= nge Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

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