The New Jersey Supreme Court zeroed in Thursday on how far insurers can go in reserving their rights without taking a definitive position on coverage, as Mist Pharmaceuticals LLC accused Berkley Insurance Co. of stonewalling a $12 million settlement by hiding behind ambiguity in its "capacity exclusion" clause.
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NJ Justices Probe Insurer's Role In $12M Settlement Fight

By Carla Baranauckas

The New Jersey Supreme Court zeroed in Thursday on how far insurers can go in reserving their rights without taking a definitive position on coverage, as Mist Pharmaceuticals LLC accused Berkley Insurance Co. of stonewalling a $12 million settlement by hiding behind ambiguity in its "capacity exclusion" clause.

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Menendez Witness Avoids Prison After 'Honest' Testimony

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge allowed a former insurance broker from New Jersey to avoid prison Thursday, after prosecutors said his "extensive" cooperation helped secure the conviction of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges.

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Fired Jets Executive Fights Team's Use Of 'Privileged' Texts

By Elaine BriseƱo

A former finance executive suing the New York Jets for an alleged retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president now seeks an injunction to stop the organization from publicly disclosing or discussing certain text messages between her and her spouse.

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Jenn Mascott Of WH Counsel's Office Confirmed To 3rd Circ.

By Courtney BublƩ

The Senate voted 50-47 on Thursday to confirm Jenn Mascott, currently serving in the White House Counsel's Office, to the Delaware seat on the Third Circuit.

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LITIGATION

US Wind Fights For Countersuit Against Offshore Project Foes

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

US Wind Inc. is asking a Maryland federal court to allow it to proceed with claims against local governments and community, business and environmental groups that are challenging the approval of a wind energy project off the state's coastline.

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Cannabis Co. Says 'Disgruntled' Employee Stole Trade Secrets

By Jonathan Capriel

New Jersey cannabis products maker Kushi Labs LLC is suing its former employees, claiming they stole confidential trade secrets and took them over to a rival manufacturer, according to a federal lawsuit seeking at least $750,000 in damages.

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Investment Adviser Firm Sues Over Fraud Protection Patent

By Elliot Weld

Investment adviser firm FinTegrity LLC has sued Deutsche Bank and a Czech cybersecurity company in Texas federal court with claims they are infringing a patent that covers fraud protection technology.

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BeFrugal Marketing Firm Says Exec Steered Clients To Rival

By Julie Manganis

Affiliate marketing firm BeFrugal said in a lawsuit this week in Massachusetts state court that a senior vice president secretly co-founded a competing company, then steered major clients, including DirecTV and Samsung, to the new business.

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6th Circ. Says Facebook Posts About Firm Not Defamation

By Emily Sawicki

The Sixth Circuit has declined to revive a defamation suit over social media posts alleging an unethical connection between a New Jersey-headquartered law firm and members of the Flint, Michigan, city council.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

ADA Doesn't Stop At Prison Gates, 3rd Circ. Says In Reversal

By Parker Quinlan

The Third Circuit ordered a lower court to accept an incarcerated man's amended Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against a Pennsylvania prison that he says denied him proper medical treatment when a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed in his cell.

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PEOPLE

Ousted NJ US Attorney Rejoins McCarter & English

By Adrian Cruz

Months after she was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump from her role as New Jersey U.S. attorney, former federal prosecutor Desiree "Desi" Grace has rejoined McCarter & English LLP's Newark office as a partner, the firm announced Thursday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Up Next At High Court: Voting Rights & Warrantless Entries

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return Tuesday to hear oral arguments in four cases, including a dispute over the constitutionality of the last remaining provision of the Voting Right Act and whether federal prisoners seeking postconviction relief are subject to the same rules as state inmates.

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Atty's Due Process Claims Challenging Disbarments Trimmed

By Emily Sawicki

A former attorney has had most of a due process suit fighting his disbarment in Florida and reciprocal discipline in Massachusetts and New York thrown out, with a Manhattan federal judge finding that New York lacks personal jurisdiction over out-of-state disciplinary officials.

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CFTC Crypto Task Force Head Returns To Akin

By Aislinn Keely

The former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Digital Asset Task Force has left the agency to return to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel in its white collar defense and government investigations practice.

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9th Circ. Flouting 'Imperial Judiciary' Warning, Judges Assert

By Jeff Overley

A large contingent of Ninth Circuit judges accused colleagues Friday of ignoring recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions limiting legal remedies in politically charged disputes, adding fresh fuel to a heated debate over the judiciary's handling of suits against the Trump administration.

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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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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Paddington Bear's creators and Studio Canal sue the company behind Spitting Image, Blackpool Football Club's former owner Owen Oyston bring a fresh claim against the club, and Mishcon de Reya sue a Saudi investment group.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the full Ninth Circuit held that denials of California anti-SLAPP motions can no longer be appealed in the midst of litigation.

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NJ Senate President Calls For Monitor Of State AG Unit

By Madison Arnold

New Jersey Senate President Nicholas Scutari on Friday called for the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the state's Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, saying it has been troubled with failed prosecutions, botched investigations and misconduct.

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Ga. Judge Charged With DUI At Florida Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia judge who heads up the state's council of superior court jurists was arrested for driving under the influence outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club this week after hitting another vehicle with his Mercedes, according to arrest records.

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Brief

Bill Would Let Judges, Prosecutors Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney BublƩ

Two Republicans have introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would allow current and retired federal judges and state, local and federal prosecutors to carry concealed firearms in response to increasing concerns about judicial security.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

It is of little solace to general counsel that most big law firms hiked their billing rates this year just slightly less than last year's increase. And it looks like Elon Musk is settling with the former chief legal officer and the general counsel of Twitter, along with two other executives, over their suit to obtain millions in promised severance pay. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Retribution, Intent Claims May Defuse Bombshell James Case

By Phillip Bantz

The Trump administration's indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is tightly crafted and offers a straightforward presentation of the government's case, but experts say James appears to have a strong argument that she did not intend to break the law and is being unfairly targeted for what amounts to a minor offense.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Arnold & Porter

Ayres Jenkins

Bird & Bird

Blake Morgan LLP

Boyden Gray

Brown & Crouppen

Bryan Cave

Butzel Long

CMS Cameron McKenna

Clifford Chance

Constantine Law Ltd

Cooper Levenson

Coughlin Midlige

Creed & Gowdy

DLA Piper

Dean Omar

Edwin Coe

Foley & Lardner

Fried Frank

Frost Brown

Gibbons PC

Gibson Dunn

Gouchev Law

Gowling WLG

Graves Garrett

Greenberg Traurig

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Howard Kennedy LLP

Hunters Law

Jones Day

Keystone Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lento Law Group

Lenzo & Reis

Lowell & Associates

Lowenstein Sandler

Marzulla Law

McCarter & English

Mishcon de Reya

Mizerowski Thon

Morgan Lewis

Morse Barnes-Brown

Nabarro LLP

Norton Rose

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Law

Shakespeare Martineau

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Solomon Ward

Sullivan & Cromwell

TLT LLP

Taylor Duma

Taylor Wessing

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Walker Morris LLP

Weber Gallagher

Weightmans LLP

Wiggin LLP

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AXA SA

AXA XL Ltd.

Akin's

Akrimax Pharmaceuticals LLC

Allianz SE

American Bar Association

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Association of Corporate Counsel

Bank of America Corp.

Barclays PLC

Big Lots Inc.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Comerica Inc.

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

Court of Arbitration for Sport

DePuy Synthes Cos.

Deutsche Bank AG

DraftKings Inc.

EE Ltd.

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC

Eventbrite Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Fifth Third Bancorp

Fitch Ratings Ltd.

Fort Point Capital

Google LLC

International Finance Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

MasterCard Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Micron Technology Inc.

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co.

New York Jets LLC

New York State Bar Association

Ohio State University

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Prison Policy Initiative

S&P Global Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Signature Resolution LLC

Sky PLC

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

The Catholic University of America

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

The Florida Bar

Twitter Inc.

Universal Music Group NV

Virgin Media Inc.

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Wellpath

X Corp.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Financial Conduct Authority

Florida Supreme Court

National Institutes of Health

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Legislature

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court