Fri.Oct 11, 2024

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Keys to Using GenAI in Your Law Practice? Caution and Common Sense

Attorney at Work

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Lawyers get sanctioned for filing bogus cases concocted by generative AI. This storyline is all too familiar to us legal professionals. While these headlines deliver a powerful cautionary message, they should not deter you from using GenAI in your law practice. What Lawyers Need to Know About GenAI […] The post Keys to Using GenAI in Your Law Practice?

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In Austin for ClioCon, Competitor AffiniPay Put On A Guerilla Marketing Sideshow

Law Sites

Clio’s choice of Austin, Texas, for its Clio Cloud Conference this year was a foray into enemy territory, and the enemy responded strategically with guerilla tactics of its own. Austin, as it happens, is the home base of AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay, CASEPeer and Docketwise, all of which are competitors to Clio.

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A Stipulation is a Binding Contract

E-Discovery LLC

“A stipulation has all the binding force of a contract.” Waterworks Restoration Baltimore, LLC v. Shine Home Improvements, Inc., 2024 WL 4198164, at *1 (Apls. Ct. Md. Sept. 16, 2024) (unreported) (citation and quotations omitted). Parties stipulate “to save the time of the court, the expense and difficulty of producing witnesses, and for other good reasons,” and therefore “they are bound by that stipulation.

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New York Mets Hit With Class Action Alleging Biometric Privacy Violations

Insurance Journal

The company that owns the New York Mets professional baseball team is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging the organization collects and profits from fans’ biometric information at its stadium, CitiField, in violation of the city’s biometrics privacy …

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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AI predicted to fuel mass litigation against companies

Legal Dive

A cybersecurity-like response process will be needed to manage what’s coming, two risk specialists say.

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Milton’s Surprise Was the Damage Unleashed by Powerful Winds

Insurance Journal

Storm Weakened But Still Brought 120-mph Winds to St.

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Agents Report Limited Damage But More Claims Expected As Floridians Return Home

Insurance Journal

Insurance agents and carriers in the path of Hurricane Milton reported only minor damage to their own offices and homes but a rapidly growing number of claims from residential and commercial policyholders for roof, flood and auto damage.

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Lessons from Lisa Marie Presley: Make Estate Plans and Funeral Arrangements

Practice of Law

Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, died in 2023. She left behind her memoir, which her daughter, Riley Keough, completed. In the book From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie details her grief after her son, Benjamin Keough, died by suicide at age 27. She admitted to keeping her son’s body in a coffin with dry ice for two months before burying him at Graceland, Elvis’ home in Memphis, TN.

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Wisconsin Recycling Company Fined $202K for Exposing Workers to Lead, Cadmium

Insurance Journal

A follow-up inspection by federal workplace safety investigators in April 2024 found a Janesville, Wisconsin recycling company continuing to expose employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled cathode ray tubes from older TVs, despite being cited …

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Does the Prosecution of a Topless Woman Expose Gender Inequality in Minnesota Law?

Practice of Law

The Minnesota Supreme Court recently delved into a provocative legal debate concerning the boundaries of indecent exposure laws. The case has raised significant constitutional questions about equal protection and the intent behind the exposure, with arguments touching on whether such laws are applied equally to men and women. Let’s look at what happened.

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Fitch Expects Insurance Industry Losses of Up to $50B From Milton

Insurance Journal

Fitch Ratings expects Hurricane Milton to cause between $30 billion and $50 billion in insured losses to push total industry losses in 2024 above $100 billion for the fifth straight year.

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Life Inside, Remixed: How I Found Peace in the Prison Garden

The Marshall Project

Bobby Bostic was only 18 when he was sentenced to 241 years behind bars. To his surprise, weeds, water and soil put the St. Louis native on the path to healing.

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Coal Expansion Helps Lure Insurers Back to Australia Producer Whitehaven

Insurance Journal

Whitehaven Coal Ltd., one of Australia’s largest coal producers, shelved a planned special purpose vehicle originally intended to provide in-house insurance after finding external insurers willing to take on the risk. The development follows Sydney-based Whitehaven’s $3.

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Politics in the workplace can become a nightmare for employers

Legal Dive

Employers and HR teams must contend with a polarized electorate — also known as their employees — as the November U.S. election nears.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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West Texas Town Endures Another Well Blowout, Putting Residents at Risk

Insurance Journal

TOYAH — After a restless night of sleep, Elida Machuca texted her neighbor, searching for answers. The air around her house in this West Texas town stunk of rotten eggs. “Last night, about 1 a.m.

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ClioCon Roundup: Is the billable hour dead, and other existential questions 

Legal IT Insider

Will Gen AI be the death of the billable hour? How should we be training staff to use technology now? And what does Clio’s $900m investment mean for end users? […] The post ClioCon Roundup: Is the billable hour dead, and other existential questions appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Bayer Must Pay $78 Million in Latest Roundup Cancer Trial, Jury Finds

Insurance Journal

Bayer must pay $78 million to a Pennsylvania man who said he got cancer from using the company’s Roundup weedkiller, a state court jury in Philadelphia found on Thursday. The verdict follows previous consecutive victories for Bayer in that court.

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SEC sanctions Moog Inc. for alleged bribes

Legal Dive

The SEC and Justice Department filed 21 enforcement actions last year alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

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People Moves: Alliant Adds Moseley to Midwest Office

Insurance Journal

Kama Moseley, JD, PLCS, CAPI, has joined Alliant Insurance Services as Senior Vice President, Producer with Alliant Private Client. Alliant Private Client. Alliant said that Kansas-based Moseley will enhance the national brokerage’s presence in the Midwest.

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Next Gen Lawyers Bring AI Chops to the Workplace

Securities Docket

Law schools are embracing AI in the classroom, equipping future lawyers with the courses and skills to spearhead what could be a technological revolution in law. And as those AI-savvy graduates enter the workforce, they’re introducing cutting-edge AI techniques to their more experienced colleagues. Alex Crowley, an IP associate at Baker McKenzie who graduated from Northwestern Law School in 2021, took an AI legal reasoning course as a student that he says is now integral to his daily practice.

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MIC Global Applies to Become Lloyd’s Coverholder of Greenlight Re’s Syndicate 3456

Insurance Journal

MIC Global (MIC), the full-stack embedded micro insurance provider, announced it has applied to become a Lloyd’s coverholder of Greenlight Re’s Syndicate 3456, subject to applicable approvals.

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Two Firms That Avoided SEC Charges Offer Self-Reporting Lessons

Securities Docket

The firms were accused in orders issued Sept. 23 and 24 of failing to capture, retain, and supervise electronic messaging content. Eleven of them were fined a combined $88 million for recordkeeping shortcoming. The remaining two—broker dealer Qatalyst Partners and investment adviser Atom Investors—avoided civil penalties because of self-reporting, cooperation, and prompt remediation of identified issues.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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Economic Challenges, Cyber, and People Risks Top UK Businesses’ Concerns: Marsh

Insurance Journal

Economic and financial challenges (43%), cyber threats (39%) and people-related risks (38%) are the top three concerns facing UK businesses over the next 12 months, according to new research by Marsh McLennan.

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Bitnomial Exchange Sues U.S. SEC for Over Extending Its Crypto Jurisdiction

Securities Docket

Crypto exchange Bitnomial filed suit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying the regulator overextended its jurisdiction in seeking to regulate a proposed XRP futures contract together with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In a Thursday filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the company said the futures fall solely in the CFTC’s remit and the SEC’s involvement would add significantly to the company’s

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Inszone Acquires San Antonio Insurance Services

Insurance Journal

Inszone Insurance Services announced its acquisition of San Antonio Insurance Services, Texas-based agency known for its strong focus on trucking insurance and a broad array of property and casualty solutions.

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NDAs

Securities Docket

… the US Securities and Exchange Commission has a “whistleblower protection” rule that makes it illegal to punish or threaten anyone to stop them from reporting a potential securities law violation, and it interprets that rule to mean that an NDA itself could be a threat to whistleblowers unless it has a paragraph explicitly saying “oh but feel free to tell the SEC about any potential securities law violations… ” If you are a company and you have sloppy legacy NDAs, what can you do a

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.

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Pilot Dies in Crash of Replica WWI-Era Plane During Upstate New York Airshow

Insurance Journal

A replica of a World War I-era fighter plane caught fire and crashed during an airshow in upstate New York, killing the pilot, according to police. Brian Coughlin, 60, died Saturday after the Fokker D.

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Nano Magic: SEC Order Retroactively Terminating Trading Suspension

Securities Docket

Blockbuster stuff from our friend Jacob Frenkel: today, the SEC issued an order granting Jacob’s client’s petition to retroactively terminate a trading suspension entered back in April 2020 in the matter of Nano Magic. That, by itself, is remarkable. But a look at the administrative proceeding record in the matter ([link] reflects a long and hotly contested litigation in which, among other things, Jacob and his team forced the Enforcement Staff to acknowledge that they misrepresented

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ANOTHER LATE CLAIM FORM CASE: COURT HAD NO POWER TO EXTEND TIME: IF IT DID THEN THE CLAIMANT’S APPLICATION WOULD HAVE BEEN REFUSED IN ANY EVENT

Civil Litigation Brief

The case of Farnham Town Council v Secretary of State for Levelling Up Housing & Communities & Anor [2024] EWHC 2458 (Admin) (Tim Smith, sitting as a High Court Judge) is far from being the first case about service of.

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Nearly 50% of U.S. Investors Plan to Invest in Crypto ETFs: Charles Schwab Survey

Securities Docket

U.S. investors are very much keen on investing in exchange-traded funds (ETF) that hold cryptocurrencies, a new survey commissioned by financial services giant Charles Schwab showed on Thursday. Some 45% of respondents said they plan to invest in crypto via ETFs over the next year, up from 38% a year earlier, surpassing demand for bonds and alternative assets.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.