Law Sites
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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E-Discovery LLC
OCTOBER 11, 2024
“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.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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Complex Discovery
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Editor’s Note: McDonald’s recent legal action against the U.S. meatpacking industry’s ‘Big Four’—Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef—marks a significant moment in antitrust litigation, with serious implications for both corporate governance and market competition. By accusing these industry giants of manipulating beef prices through collusion, McDonald’s aims to expose practices that allegedly violate the Sherman Act.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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 …
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2024
A cybersecurity-like response process will be needed to manage what’s coming, two risk specialists say.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Practice of Law
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
The Marshall Project
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Practice of Law
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Legal IT Insider
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
… 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
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Storm Weakened But Still Brought 120-mph Winds to St.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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
Civil Litigation Brief
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 11, 2024
The SEC and Justice Department filed 21 enforcement actions last year alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 11, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Chicago-based Cumberland DRW LLC with operating as an unregistered dealer in more than $2 billion of crypto assets offered and sold as securities, in violation of the registration requirements of the federal securities laws that are designed to protect investors. According to the SEC’s complaint, since at least March 2018 through the present, Cumberland has acted as an unregistered dealer by buying and selling crypto assets offered and sold as
Legally Speaking
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Welcome to Clio Con Clips 2024, the mini podcast series based on our latest visit to Clio Con. Here, we discuss our thoughts and findings with the guest speakers that attended this influential event. Our first guest, Jack Newton is the founder and CEO of the innovative and inspiring legal tech company Clio.
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