A group of domestic and foreign insurers including underwriters at Lloyd's of London have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damage claim, saying they have settled the dispute.
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Insurers Settle Bid To Arbitrate $7M La. Hurricane Ida Case

By Joyce Hanson

A group of domestic and foreign insurers including underwriters at Lloyd's of London have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damage claim, saying they have settled the dispute.

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White & Case Names 45 New Partners In Promotions Round

By Ashish Sareen

White & Case LLP said Thursday that it has promoted 45 lawyers from across the globe to its partnership, with its office in London accounting for a fifth of the cohort.

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Insurers Pay Into $340M UN-Backed Fund For Developing States

By Martin Croucher

Insurers have contributed to a $340 million fund for infrastructure projects in developing countries, an industry body said Thursday, as part of a United Nations-backed program to close the global protection gap.

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Sidley Hires Ex-A&O Shearman US Sanctions Head In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Sidley Austin LLP has hired the former U.S. head of sanctions from A&O Shearman, who is joining the firm's global arbitration, trade and advocacy practice in Washington, D.C., bringing experience to that team from the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

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Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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

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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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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NY Court Orders Hearing On Counsel Conflict In Drug Case

By Elizabeth Daley

A man who pled guilty to gun and drug charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison can argue for a new trial due to ineffective counsel after a similarly culpable co-defendant got a light sentence allegedly due to cooperation between their attorneys, a New York state appeals court said in a reversal.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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UC Law School Can Drop Hastings Name, Appeals Court Says

By Andrea Keckley

California is allowed to drop Serranus Clinton Hastings' name from the University of California's San Francisco-based law school, a state appeals court has ruled, backing a trial judge's decision to toss a lawsuit filed by the former chief state Supreme Court justice's descendants and various school alumni.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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Robbins Geller To Steer REIT Investors' Suit Over $787M Deal

By Sydney Price

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will lead a proposed class of investors in real estate investment trust Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. who claim they were misled by executives from the REIT ahead of a $787 million merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2023.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Adams Hoefer

Akin & Tate

Alston & Bird

Armstrong Teasdale

BCL Solicitors

Brett Wilson LLP

Burges Salmon

Caldwell Cassady

Cambre & Associates

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Carter-Ruck

Cooley LLP

Cox Byington

Dhillon Law Group

Dickinson Wright

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Florida Justice Institute

Foley & Lardner

Fountain Court Chambers

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Goldblatt & Singer

Hill Dickinson

Hillis Clark

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Keller Rohrback

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Lane Law Group LLC

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Leigh Day

Matrix Chambers

McKool Smith

Michael Yamamoto LLP

Miller Fair

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Parr Brown

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

RWK Goodman

Robbins Geller

Rule Garza

Rynearson Suess

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Sterlington PLLC

Stewarts Law LLP

Summerville Firm LLC

Taylor Wessing

Travers Smith

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Watson LLP

White & Case

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AXA SA

AXA XL Ltd.

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

American Bar Association

Anglo American PLC

Association of Corporate Counsel

Balfour Beatty PLC

Barclays PLC

BlackRock Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

Co-operative Group Ltd.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FedEx Corp.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Fort Point Capital

Global Infrastructure Partners

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

HDI Global Specialty SE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Iceland Foods Ltd.

International Finance Corp.

Investments Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson

L'Oreal SA

Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Lexington Insurance Co.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lloyds Bank PLC

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Marks & Spencer

Munich Re Group

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Consumer Law Center Inc.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association

National Westminster Bank PLC

Ocado Ltd.

OptumRx Inc.

QBE Insurance Group Ltd.

Ready Capital Corp.

Ritz-Carlton Company LLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

The Catholic University of America

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

UC Hastings Law

Visa Europe

Volcano Corporation

Waterfall Asset Management LLC

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

Louisiana Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Secretary of State for Health and Others

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

World Bank Group