Just named the most powerful law firm in sports, Proskauer Rose has landed a high-profile assignment of a different variety: representing a group of concert promoters suing syndicates of British insurer Lloyd’s of London for refusing to pay out a claim related to a Lady Gaga concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, that was scheduled for June 2012 but subsequently canceled.

The planned show was nixed last May after Jakarta police refused to issue Lady Gaga—real name: Stefani Germanotta—a permit in the face of protests by religious groups and conservative politicians in country, The New York Times reported at the time. The Times also reported that one of Indonesia’s largest Islamic groups had called the often-risqué singer "a pornography icon."

Now, according to sibling publication The National Law Journal, concert promoter Live Nation, the singer’s touring company, and talent agency The Atom Factory are suing three Lloyd’s syndicates in U.S. district court in California for breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in connection with the canceled show. In their complaint [PDF], which was filed March 1, the plaintiffs claim the Lloyd’s syndicates failed to honor "Terrorism Policies" in the three companies’ contracts that should have covered them for losses incurred by the cancellation.

The complaint claims that the Jakarta concert was called off "to prevent bodily injury and property damage and to protect the lives and safety of Lady Gaga, all members of the Born This Way Tour, and the public . . ." The suit goes on to alleged that the plaintiffs had purchased a total of three terrorism policies from the Lloyd’s syndicates that covered concerts on the tour between April 19, 2012 and March 17, 2013, which allegedly promised to cover the companies for any net losses suffered from the "necessary cancellation" of a performance as a direct result of acts or threats of terrorism.

The companies state in the suit that they each suffered losses as a result of the canceled performance, but that Lloyd’s denied coverage "based on language and purported conditions that are not contained in the terrorism policies."

The complaint points to a May article in the The Australian reporting that supporters of the Islamic Defenders Front had purchased more than 150 tickets to the concert with the intention of stopping the performance. Germanotta herself tweeted in May that Indonesian authorities had asked her to censor the performance and that some religious extremists had threatened violence. (Germanotta’s tour was later canceled completely, last month, after the performer decided to undergo surgery for a chronic hip injury. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the losses from the 21 canceled shows could exceed $25 million, with promoters and insurers likely to be at odds over who will be responsible for those costs.)

Live Nation, Mermaid Touring, and The Atom Factory are all represented by a Proskauer Rose team that includes Chicago-based litigation partner Paul Langer and associate Joshua Pollack, in Los Angeles, according to court filings. When reached for comment by The Am Law Daily, Langer—who left Mayer Brown with two other partners in 2008 to establish Proskauer’s Chicago office—declined to comment on the suit.

It was not immediately certain who is representing the Lloyd’s syndicates. A Lloyd’s spokesman provided The Am Law Daily with the following comment: "The Lloyd’s insurance market always seeks to settle valid claims as quickly as possible."

The three companies are seeking damages in excess of $75,000 on each of the two causes of action stated in their complaint.

LOHAN’S SUIT AGAINST PITBULL IS TOSSED, LAWYER IN THE DOGHOUSE

Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit against musician Pitbull over the inclusion of her name in the hit 2011 song "Give Me Everything" ended with the actress is getting nothing. Lohan’s lawyer is probably wishing she could say the same.

On February 21, a New York federal judge granted the motion to dismiss Lohan’s complaint filed last March by McDermott Will & Emery on behalf of Pitbull (real name: Armando Christian Perez), as well as such other named defendants as Sony Music Entertainment, RCA Music, the singer Ne-Yo, and Afrojack, a disc jockey.

Lohan filed the suit in November 2011, claiming that the lyric "So, I’m tiptoein’, to keep flowin’, I got it locked up, like Lindsay Lohan" violated her right to privacy and caused her emotional distress while unjustly enriching the defendants. (Though Lohan originally filed the suit in New York State court, McDermott had it moved to federal court based on the fact that Lohan officially resides in California, not New York.)

In his order dismissing the suit [ PDF], U.S. district judge Denis Hurley wrote that the song is a work of art and is therefore protected under the First Amendment. While acknowleding a "relative sparsity of case law" regarding lawsuits over public figures named in songs, Hurley also noted that the mere use of Lohan’s name in the song was not enough to "meet the threshold for extreme and outrageous conduct" that would merit a claim of intentional emotional distress.

McDermott litigation partner Marcos Jimenez, who led the firm’s team along, with associate Audrey Pumariega, tells The Am Law Daily that the lack of precedent makes this decision all the more notable. "This really [is] an important case in the sense that it further establishes the right of artists and musicians to express themselves, even to the point of using others named in songs without having to worry about being sued by other people," Jimenez says.