Law Sites
AUGUST 26, 2024
On Sept. 19, The Resolution Center celebrates its 30th anniversary. Long formerly known as the North Shore Community Mediation Center, it is an organization that provides conflict resolution and training services to a broad swath of communities north of Boston.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 26, 2024
Yuliya LaRoe | Client credit allocation conversations don’t have to be contentious. Here's how to keep calm and ensure your contributions are rewarded. The post Mastering the Art of Client Credit Allocation Conversations appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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E-Discovery LLC
AUGUST 26, 2024
While the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are detailed and precise, there are gaps. For example, the Rules do not specify when a spoliation motion must be filed. That gap has been filled by common-law. When Should a Spoliation Motion Be Filed and Decided? (Dec. 26, 2020); Spoliation Motions Denied as Untimely – Another Wake-Up Call (Sept. 8, 2023); Another Spoliation Motion Denied as Untimely (Mar. 14, 2024).
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 26, 2024
Jockeying for position among the leading generative AI large language models (LLMs) has amplified their differences. Training models and code access are the source of some of the biggest disagreements. Should code for generative and other forms of AI be open or proprietary, protected under copyright, trade secret or even patent? There is a lot riding financially on the outcome, and there are good arguments for and against.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Conflicting federal policies may force thousands of residents in flood-prone areas to pay more for flood insurance or be left unaware of danger posed by dams built upstream from their homes and worksites, according to an Associated Press review of …
Practice of Law
AUGUST 26, 2024
In what many are calling an absurd move, Disney claimed that a widower whose wife died from an allergic reaction after dining at a restaurant in Disney Springs, Florida, has no right to sue in court. According to Disney, he waived his right by agreeing to the terms and conditions when he purchased Disney World tickets on the app and subscribed to Disney+.
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 26, 2024
The 8th Circuit’s ruling that a sexual assault claim must go to court sheds light on how the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act has shaken up arbitration law.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Australians can now legally ignore unreasonable after-hours work calls and emails under new government legislation that came into effect on Monday, drawing criticism from business groups.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 26, 2024
We also spent a good deal of time discussing obviousness, KSR, and how at least sometimes, perhaps even often depending on the wording of the rejection from the examiner, you really only need to argue a lack of teaching, suggestion and motivation to persuade examiners that the claims you seek are nonobvious and allowable. “Evidence is still a requirement for motivation to combine,” Rogitz said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 26, 2024
On day one of IPWatchdog’s inaugural Women’s IP Forum, which was also National Women’s Equality Day, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal shared her insights for women seeking to move into leadership positions in IP and the challenges she’s had to face along the way, both personally and professionally—from being told she shouldn’t play guitar or drums at age seven to redirecting (and even harnessing) misogynist comments and bullies she has encountered along the way.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
AM Best said it has assigned and placed under review with negative implications a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of bbb+ (Good) to the $40 million, 9.5% surplus notes due 2044 issued by Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 26, 2024
As regulatory and litigation pressure weighs on companies, general counsels are taking a more active role in ESG strategies, per a recent survey conducted by Corporate Counsel and Morrison Foerster.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Insurers in Louisiana have until Friday, Aug. 30 to compete a data call relating to property and casualty homeowners’ insurance policies and commercial lines property policies during the 2024 hurricane season.
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 26, 2024
The department’s “80/20” guidance for dual job workers is inconsistent with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the court held.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees’ health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel, putting workers’ coverage at risk despite the U.S.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 26, 2024
We are looking again at the skills necessary to take accurate witness statements. Here we revisit a real gem of an article by Ula Cartwright-Finch and Alex Waksman of Herbert Smith Freehills on the accuracy of witness statements and the.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states sued RealPage on Friday, accusing the property management software company of using algorithms to help landlords illegally collude and drive up rents for apartments.
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 26, 2024
“Citi was compelled to replace [Kathleen Martin] as Data Transformation Chair — the role. was too important for Citi to tolerate [her] underperformance,” the bank said Thursday.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Finnish forestry company Stora Enso Oyj suspended some harvesting activities after thousands of endangered freshwater pearl mussels died at one of its sites.
Ethicking
AUGUST 26, 2024
As reported by Above the Law and the Legal Profession Blog , a Colorado lawyer received a 60-day suspension, stayed if he successfully completes a two-year probationary period, for posing as a judge and a former deputy district attorney in blog comments submitted to a moderator. The stipulated decision (and I suppose I should include a warning that there is uncensored profanity in the decision) was brief, and notes a violation of Colorado Rule 8.4(c) , which, like its ABA counterpart , prohibits
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a warning about a sophisticated phishing scam targeting motor carriers.
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Securities Docket
AUGUST 26, 2024
As crypto investing becomes more mainstream and institutionalized with bitcoin ETFs, Wyoming is already pushing into the next phase of growth for crypto: consumer payments. The state is creating its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, called the Wyoming stable token, which it plans to launch in the first quarter of 2025 to give individuals and businesses a faster and cheaper way to transact while creating a new revenue stream for the state.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s initiative to use antitrust laws to protect workers faces a key test starting Monday when the agency will argue the merger between grocery chain Kroger and its rival Albertsons would crush unionized workers’ bargaining …
Securities Docket
AUGUST 26, 2024
Nearly half of all the corporate money flowing into the election has come from the crypto industry, according to a report this week from the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen. The sum, approximately $119 million, was raised from a mix of contributors, with Coinbase and Ripple accounting for more than 80% of the donations.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Global specialty insurer Chaucer hired Alex Baker as class underwriter within its political violence and crisis management team. Baker will lead the delivery of their growth strategy and portfolio management in the US market.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 26, 2024
Private equity firm Broadstreet Inc. asked a Texas federal court to block a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the firm’s real-estate development plans. Broadstreet’s targeted activities don’t “fall within the scope” of the SEC’s authority to regulate securities, the complaint, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
New Jersey has raised the cap on fees for attorneys handling workers’ compensation cases from 20% to 25% of settlements. The primary sponsors of S2822/A3986 were Senator Joseph Lagana and Assemblymen Anthony Verrelli and Robert Karabinchak.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 26, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced awards of more than $98 million to two whistleblowers whose information and assistance led to an SEC enforcement action and an action brought by another agency. The first whistleblower’s tip prompted the opening of the investigations, and thereafter provided critical additional information and ongoing assistance.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Texas chemical producer TPC Group Inc. has restored normal operations at its facility that spewed thick, black smoke into the Houston sky for almost four hours Monday.
Practice of Law
AUGUST 26, 2024
After their celebrated reunion, some twenty years after their initial split, everyone believed that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopes, or "Bennifer", finally had their fairy tale ending. This didn’t happen, unfortunately. Two years after their reunion, Lopez filed for divorce. Divorces are common in Hollywood, but this story has a detail rarely heard among the rich and famous: there was no prenuptial agreement.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 26, 2024
Utility firm Hawaiian Electric raised going concern doubts on Friday after disclosing that it did not have a financing plan in place for the $1.99 billion Maui wildfire settlement it reached earlier this month.
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