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A Calif. Law May Aid Homeowner Recovery After LA Fires

Reconstruction bottlenecks following the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires mean that certain homeowners insurance... (more story)

Tracking The Rare 'Quick Look' Win In FTC's Zillow-Redfin Suit

The Federal Trade Commission’s suit claiming that Zillow illegally paid Redfin to exit the apartment rental market... (more story)

How Reserve Studies Fit Into Condo Association Compliance

In the five years since the Surfside condominium collapse and as states like New Jersey establish related safety m... (more story)

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Justices Will Resolve Circuit Split Over Pipeline Payouts

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a circuit court split over how to determine what gas infrastructure project developers should pay landowners in eminent domain proceedings, a move encouraged ... (more story)

Simpson Thacher Steers Bridgepoint On $1.4B Investor Buy

Private investment company Bridgepoint Group PLC said Monday that it will buy Kayne Anderson, an alternative real estate investor, for $1.4 billion in a deal steered by Simpson Thacher and Kirkland.

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4 Firms Advise Public Storage's $1.2B Acquisition Deal

Public Storage will acquire Public Storage Canada in a $1.2 billion cash and shares deal guided by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Torys LLP, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP and Osler Hoskin & Har... (more story)

McGuireWoods Guides Chevron-Microsoft Natural Gas Deal

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to build a natural gas facility in Pecos, Texas, that will power a multibillion-dollar Microsoft data center campus for 20 years in a development deal advise... (more story)

Insurer Says NJ Atty Sank Coverage By Not Cooperating

Hanover Insurance Co. has asked a New Jersey federal court for a declaratory judgment finding that it doesn't have to defend an attorney and his firm in a suit over a real estate deal gone wrong, telling the c... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Paul Weiss, Kirkland

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and bui... (more story)

Faegre Drinker Adds Withers Int'l Arbitration Atty In NY

A former Withers litigation and arbitration special counsel has joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as a New York partner.

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High Court Lets Fed's Lisa Cook Keep Job For Now

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook cannot be immediately removed from her post, a setback for President Donald Trump as he seeks to further remake the central bank's leadership.

Firm Beats DQ Bid Over Deposition In Housing Authority Suit

A Connecticut judge has denied a bid to disqualify Rose Kallor LLP from representing a Connecticut housing authority and related entities in litigation accusing a former employee of misappropriating funds, say... (more story)

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JPM's Construction Debt Grows As Wells Pulls Back By $1.6B

JPMorgan's construction debt on the books rose in the first quarter while Wells Fargo continued to pare its construction debt holdings during the period, showing contrasting narratives for the nation's two big... (more story)

FAIR Plan To Face 1st Coverage Trial Over Los Angeles Fires 

The first trial against California's last-resort insurer over an alleged underpayment of insurance benefits connected to the Los Angeles fires implicates pressing fire issues in the Golden State. Law360 breaks... (more story)

Conn. Justices Say Local Rent Board Can Enter Eviction Fight

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a municipal fair rent commission to get involved in a landlord-tenant eviction action in state court, finding the local body clearly has an interest in advocat... (more story)

11th Circ. Challenges Exclusion In Arson Death Dispute

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a property insurer's argument that an exclusion for a failure to maintain an apartment complex freed it from defending the owner in a wrongful death suit stemming from arson.

Zillow, Redfin Tell Court Their Partnership Is Not Illegal

Property listing companies Zillow and Redfin urged a Virginia federal court not to presume that their $100 million partnership agreement, which is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple ... (more story)