Attorney at Work
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Brooke Lively | When was the last time you reviewed your firm's organizational structure — and challenged the status quo? The post Transforming Law Firm Organizational Structure: Why You May Not Need a Lawyer In Charge appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Law Sites
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States.
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E-Discovery LLC
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Plastics Industry Assoc. v. Bonta , 2024 WL 4699927 (D.D.C. Nov. 6, 2024), held in part that the defendant’s act of serving a “preservation demand” on the plaintiff in the forum district did not confer long-arm jurisdiction over the serving-defendant in that forum. “Preservation notices” are routinely sent to a potential opposing party in order to trigger the common-law duty to preserve potentially responsive information by putting the recipient on notice that litigation should be anticipated.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ford Motor Co. agreed to a $165 million civil penalty to settle allegations the company failed to recall cars with defective rearview cameras in a timely manner, the second-largest fine ever levied by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
During a scheduled markup hearing of three key patent bills today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) announced they would delay consideration of both Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership Act (PREVAIL Act), respectively. However, the Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act of 2024 moved forward to the Senate floor.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A group of subsidiaries of Allstate have filed a subrogation suit against Hyundai and Kia to get back costs paid to insureds for damages when their cars suddenly erupted in flames. According to the lawsuit, now in U.S.
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Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Rapper Nelly won’t face drug charges following his arrest this summer at a St. Louis-area casino, a prosecutor said. Nelly was arrested at 4:45 a.m. Aug.
Legal Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
“The fact that so few of the G2000 companies are on track to reach net-zero emissions is alarming,” the director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management told ESG Dive.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A jury has awarded the city of Baltimore $266 million in damages in its suit against pharmaceutical firms McKesson and AmerisourceBergen for their part in the city’s opioid epidemic.
Legal Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The meetings, a common strategy for employers during union drives, “have a reasonable tendency to interfere with and coerce employees” in the exercise of their rights, the Board decided.
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Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said its enforcement has led to fewer workers dying. OSHA, a part of the Department of Labor, said it investigated 826 worker deaths in fiscal year 2024.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
OpenAI, Inc. has won a fight at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to preliminarily enjoin Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc. and its owner, Guy Ravine, from using the marks “OpenAI” or “Open AI” in commerce. But one of the three judges dissented, calling the findings in the district court’s orders granting the injunction “confusing and insufficiently explained.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Typhoon Usagi struck the northern Philippines on Thursday afternoon, the fifth powerful storm to impact the country in three weeks, with the system set to swing north and move toward Taiwan.
Securities Docket
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Not every asset is a security. Former Chairman Clayton and I have both said that bitcoin is not a security, and the Commission has never treated bitcoin as a security. Our focus, rather, has been on some of the 10,000 or so other digital assets, many of which courts have ruled were offered or sold as securities. Putting this in context, aside from bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins, the rest of this market approximates $600 billion.
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Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide burn ban is in effect until November 30 due to an increased fire risk as the state continues to experience drought conditions and a record number of outdoor fires.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Patterson + Sheridan, LLP is seeking technical professionals for patent preparation and prosecution with Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Biomedical Engineering (with electrical engineering specialty) backgrounds. No prior legal experience is necessary.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A federal judge set an April retrial date on Tuesday for Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times, even as lawyers on both sides for the first time said they hope to engage in talks to settle the …
Complex Discovery
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article provides insights from a recent study on the “illusion of information adequacy,” a cognitive bias in which individuals assume they have sufficient information to make informed decisions, even when critical data may be missing. While the study itself did not focus on cybersecurity, information governance, or eDiscovery, its findings apply to these areas where data gaps can lead to vulnerabilities, compliance issues, or legal challenges.
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Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Commercial insurance market Lloyd’s of London is restructuring its data, operations and change departments, which will involve outsourcing some of those units’ work, a Lloyd’s spokesperson said on Thursday.
Securities Docket
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Just think about it! You are an enterprising lawyer, you watch television news, you see a story that is like “Chipotle doesn’t put enough meat in burritos,” and you would like to turn that news item into several million dollars for yourself. How do you do it? The obvious victims of Chipotle’s actions here are the customers who pay $11.50 for a burrito with an ample scoop of meat but get only a skimpy scoop of meat.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The operator of an Indiana home care company may have to pay more than $172,000, including $86,000 in overtime wages, for violating federal wage laws, the Department of Labor announced.
Securities Docket
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The former FTX executive who wrote computer code that enabled his imprisoned former boss Sam Bankman-Fried to steal billions of dollars from cryptocurrency customers has built software to help the U.S. government uncover fraud in the stock market. Federal prosecutors made the disclosure in a Wednesday court filing seeking leniency for Gary Wang, FTX’s former chief technology officer, at his scheduled Nov. 20 sentencing before U.S.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Apple Inc. faces a lawsuit from a UK consumer group over allegations its monopoly on data storage breaches competition law, in a fresh class action that could ultimately cost the tech giant billions.
E-Discovery Team
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Generative AI is revolutionizing legal technology, providing tools to automate and enhance the workflows of legal professionals. However, developing effective AI applications requires an understanding of lawyers' daily challenges. A study by IBM researchers outlines six design principles for creating AI tools tailored to legal practices: design responsibly, for mental models, for appropriate trust, for generative variability, for co-creation, and for imperfection.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Texas’s worker’s compensation market is stable and steadily growing. The workers’ compensation market is one of the few consistently profitable lines in the state, according to the Worker’s Compensation Annual Report 2024 from the Insurance Council of Texas.
Complex Discovery
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article captures a significant development for Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) tech ecosystem, as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) invests €15 million in Cogito Fund II to support early-stage tech enterprises. As part of a larger €125 million initiative, this investment will drive fintech and climate-tech innovation across CEE markets, offering crucial financial resources to startups at a pivotal growth stage.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is accepting public comments on revised static forms: DWC Form-005, Non-Subscriber Notice to Division of Workers’ Compensation. DWC Form-007, Employer’s Report of Non-Covered Employee’s Work-Related Injury or Illness.
Civil Litigation Brief
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
I have had enough cases for a webinar on service of the claim form since about February this year. Claim form issues have been a major part of the blog throughout 2024 (and there may be more to come…). This.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Fidelis Insurance Group, a Bermuda-based global specialty re/insurer, announced a new strategic partnership with Euclid Mortgage Insurance Services LLC, a managing general agency that specializes in underwriting credit risk on portfolios of residential mortgages.
Legal Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
After losing a lawsuit against the FTC, both companies agreed to cancel the deal, calling the legal process “uncertain and unlikely to be resolved.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A claim provision requiring insureds to seek underinsured benefits from their auto insurer within three years of an accident is unenforceable in New Hampshire because it restricts the insureds’ right to obtain the same benefits they would have received if …
Legal Dive
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The government-sponsored enterprise admitted in its Q3 report that it had experienced financial losses due to loan misrepresentation.
Insurance Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of police and dismissed a lawsuit alleging negligence in the 2020 death of a woman who was in custody in suburban Detroit.
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