An award assignee owed about $48 million by Spain following a dispute over revoked renewable energy subsidies has pressed a D.C. federal court to let it seek "substantial" assets the country likely holds in New York, saying there are no attachable assets in the District of Columbia.
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Spain Faces $48M Asset Hunt In NY Over Energy Dispute

By Joyce Hanson

An award assignee owed about $48 million by Spain following a dispute over revoked renewable energy subsidies has pressed a D.C. federal court to let it seek "substantial" assets the country likely holds in New York, saying there are no attachable assets in the District of Columbia.

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Jilted Citgo Buyer Takes Aim At Special Master's Fee Bid

By Rose Krebs

Jilted Citgo bidder Gold Reserve Ltd. continues to urge a Delaware federal court to reject a special master's bid for another $15.3 million in fees, saying he hasn't shown he is complying with a court order aimed at reducing his expenses.

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Energy Firms Ordered To Split Trade Secrets Case Settlement

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas Business Court judge ordered two energy companies to split a settlement that resolved a trade secrets case relating to cost-cutting measures taken on a $639 million acquisition of Shell assets, finding both parties were entitled to the settlement funds.

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RENEWABLES

Galvanize Caps $370M Fund To Decarbonize Real Estate

By Charlie Innis

Galvanize raised $370 million for a fund to invest in undercapitalized commercial buildings in the U.S. and modernize them with energy efficiency upgrades, the company said Thursday.

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NUCLEAR

NJ Court Skeptical Firm's Blog Posts Defamed Holtec

By George Woolston

Holtec International urged a New Jersey state appeals court Thursday to revive its defamation suit against Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins PC over a blog post about the firm's representation of a former Holtec executive, but its argument that the post was subject to an anti-SLAPP exception was met with skepticism.

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MINING

Gold Mine Poses No Certain Threat To Belugas, Gov't Argues

By Jonathan Capriel

The federal government wants to end litigation by environmental groups seeking to stop a mining company from expanding gold extraction efforts within an Alaska national park, telling a federal court that any alleged harm to the endangered beluga whales living in a nearby bay is speculative.

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PEOPLE

Baker Botts Adds Ex-Edison Electrical Executive To DC Team

By Jack Rodgers

Baker Botts LLP has hired a former executive director from the Edison Electric Institute, an association that represents investor-owned electric power companies, where he worked for more than a decade and recently focused on coordinating engagement with federal agencies on climate and energy issues.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Volunteering With Scouts Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Serving as an assistant scoutmaster for my son’s troop reaffirmed several skills and principles crucial to lawyering — from the importance of disconnecting to the value of morality, says Michael Warren at McManis Faulkner.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

OpenAI Practices Law Without A License, Insurer Alleges

By Lauren Berg

OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.

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Analysis

UK Law Sector's Private Equity Boom Offers Lessons For US

By Ryan Boysen

Private equity money is pouring into the U.K. legal sector, fueling a wave of consolidation in consumer-facing practices and offering a glimpse of what it could look like if outside investment in the U.S. legal industry takes off.

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Criminal Contempt Of DOJ Attys Unlikely For Violating Orders

By Jack Karp

Federal judges have been floating the possibility of holding government attorneys in criminal contempt of court for violating immigration-related court orders, a potentially shocking move that scholars say is unlikely and probably less effective than civil contempt orders.

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Lindsey Halligan Faces Fla. Bar Investigation, Watchdog Says

By Lauren Berg

The Florida Bar is investigating Lindsey Halligan, the former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who pursued controversial indictments against President Donald Trump's political opponents, according to a letter the Campaign for Accountability made public Thursday.

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Troutman And Former Atty Push To Limit Scope Of Bias Trial

By Jake Maher

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and a former associate suing the firm for racial discrimination and retaliation this week fought over the role that charged language and calculations of financial damages should play in an upcoming trial.

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Atty's Scheduling Error Dooms Appeal In AT&T Forfeiture Suit

By Patrick Hoff

An AT&T worker can't ask the Ninth Circuit to review the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming the telecommunications company misused forfeited 401(k) funds, with a California federal judge saying his attorney's busy schedule was "one of the least compelling excuses" for filing a late appeal.

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Analysis

A Look At Four States' Tort Reform Legislation Fights

By Y. Peter Kang

There are currently four states debating whether to install business-friendly tort reform legislation or medical malpractice guardrails. The issues include a potentially brutal showdown in California over auto collision litigation and efforts in Florida to expand wrongful death liability for healthcare providers.

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Ex-Judge In Wis. Says ICE Prosecution Theory Has No Limits

By Britain Eakin

A former Wisconsin judge has said the government's case against her for obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has no limiting principle and wrongly turned her authority to manage her courtroom into a federal felony for impeding ICE.

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Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana Judicial Nominees Advance

By Courtney Bublé

Four judicial nominees advanced out of committee Thursday along party lines, which included two for Texas.

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Boy Scouts of America

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Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

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Elliott Investment Management LP

Federalist Society

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Hamilton Lincoln

Holtec International Inc

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

Ketchum Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

LinkedIn Corp.

Mesquite Energy Inc.

National Mining Association

NextEra Energy Inc.

Nippon Life Insurance Company of America

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Sanchez Oil & Gas Corp.

The Florida Bar

Tract

Uber Technologies Inc.

Virginia State Bar

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

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DWF LLP

Deneys Reitz

Eimer Stahl

Express Solicitors

Gibson Dunn

Gimbel Reilly

Greenberg Traurig

Gupta Wessler

Haffner Law PC

Heyman Enerio

Hunton Andrews

Javerbaum Wurgaft

Keystone Law

King & Spalding

Kudman Trachten

Leach & Walker

Lehotsky Keller

Littler Mendelson

McManis Faulkner

Morris Nichols

Munger Tolles

Nathan Sommers

O'Melveny & Myers

Pashman Stein

Potter Anderson

Pure Legal

Richards Layton

Roberts Jackson

Sidley Austin

Stoel Rives

Stowe Family Law LLP

Strang Bradley

Troutman

Weil Gotshal

White and Williams

Wigdor LLP

Williams & Connolly

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Chickaloon Native Village

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

National Park Service

National Security Council

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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

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

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin