Law Sites
JULY 30, 2024
In its first major pronouncement on the ethics of using generative AI in law practice, the American Bar Association has issued an opinion saying that lawyers need not become experts in the technology, but must have a reasonable understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the specific generative AI technology the lawyer might use.
Attorney at Work
JULY 30, 2024
Gray Robinson | How do you quiet the mental chaos so you can hear what your intuition is trying to tell you? The post Tuning Into Your Intuition Can Change Your Life appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Law Sites
JULY 30, 2024
With hallucinations continuing to haunt applications of generative AI in the legal field, Paxton AI, a startup for contract review, document drafting and legal research, today released results of a benchmarking study that showed its product achieved 93.82% average accuracy on legal research tasks.
IP Watchdog
JULY 30, 2024
Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) today introduced a bill to restore the presumption of injunctive relief to patent owners facing infringement. The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024 would essentially abrogate eBay v. MercExchange, a case that many patent owners argue has played a key role in weakening the value of patents in the decades since the ruling.
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Lawmatics
JULY 30, 2024
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Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Delta Air Lines has hired a law firm and will seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike over a global cyber outage earlier this month that disrupted flights around the world, CNBC reported on Monday.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Clients who try to reach Higginbotham executive Marc Spivey this week will be met with an unusual out of office message. Greetings! I am in Paris to cheer on my daughter Taylor who is competing in the 2024 Olympics.
Legal Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The bank is said to have interviewed diverse candidates for jobs that were already filled or for which they weren’t qualified to polish its DEI credentials.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the state’s insurer of last resort for homes and businesses on the Gulf Coast, will consider raising rates as climate change increases the chances of more severe storms and damages become more costly.
IP Watchdog
JULY 30, 2024
Strong intellectual property rights are a cornerstone of the modern American economy. When inventors and creators know that their work will be protected, they are more likely to invest time, money, and resources into developing new ideas and technologies. This, in turn, leads to the creation of new products, services, and entire industries, which drive economic growth and create jobs.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Crude oil pipelines connecting the busiest Texas oil fields to a critical export hub across the state are nearly out of space, threatening to cap US oil exports at a time when the world needs more.
Legal Dive
JULY 30, 2024
Robust cybersecurity risk management begins in the boardroom given the costs of disruption and tighter regulatory oversight.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
An Alabama woman was arrested after she was indicted by a grand jury, charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud. Allison Dawn Benton Davis, 53, of Dothan, was charged with 11 counts of insurance fraud, according to local news reports.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 30, 2024
In Playfair & Ors v Pannells LLP & Ors [2024] EWHC 1933 (Ch) Master Brightwell refused the claimants’ application for an extension of time for service of the claim form. The application was made before the time of expiry for.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Twice in less than two weeks, federal workplace safety inspectors found an Indiana contractor exposing employees to deadly risks of falls from elevation while they did framing work at two homes under construction in Perrysburg, Ohio Inspectors with the U.S.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 30, 2024
We are returning to the judgment of HHJ Paul Matthews (sitting as a High Court Judge) in Broom v Aguilar [2024] EWHC 1961 (Ch). The judge rejected an argument that a different order for costs should be made because the respondent/clamant.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.
E-Discovery Team
JULY 30, 2024
No attorney ever wants to read something like this in a Court Order responding to their court filing: Iovino’s objections are incorrect on the merits and appear to cite fictitious cases and made-up quotations.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
U.S. health officials last Friday announced a recall of some Boar’s Head liverwurst and deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people and caused two deaths. Boar’s Head Provisions Co.
IP Watchdog
JULY 30, 2024
The conventional wisdom given to burgeoning designers is never to name your brand after yourself. Yet designers rarely heed that advice, hoping to capitalize on the cache associated with their names when they are first starting out, and then selling the exclusive rights to use their names to larger companies, especially those with a portfolio of other brands under their belts.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
A U.S. judge ordered Wells Fargo to face a lawsuit alleging it defrauded shareholders by proclaiming its commitment to hiring diversity, even as it conducted sham job interviews of non-white and female applicants it had no plans to hire. U.S.
Securities Docket
JULY 30, 2024
Meanwhile, the SEC filed its much broader cybersecurity case against Solar Winds Corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer last October in the Southern District of New York. That matter included fraud charges but also alleged corporate violations of Section 13(b)(2)(B) and Rule 13a-15. Section 13(b)(2)(B) On July 18th, the District Court issued an order largely granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
A former insurance executive has pleaded guilty to defrauding his former employer, Allied World Insurance Co., of $1.5 million in a scheme involving a shell company, bogus invoices, and vendor kickbacks.
Securities Docket
JULY 30, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be dropping it’s charges against so-called third-party tokens, such as Solana’s SOL and Polygon’s MATIC, which have been part of its case against Binance, according to a court filing early Tuesday morning. According to the filing, the SEC has already informed the defendants, Binance and affiliated entities (namely Binance.US and founder Changpeng Zhao), that it “intends to seek leave to amend its complaint, including w
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
A unit of AXA Investment Managers has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Rivage Investment, a specialist private credit firm focused on infrastructure debt that oversees more than €7.7 billion ($8.3 billion) in committed capital.
Securities Docket
JULY 30, 2024
A research paper published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that companies that use “trust words,” such as “character,” “ethics,” and “honest,” in the MD&A section of their SEC Form 10-K “have lower information content” in their earnings announcements than firms that do not use trust words. In Can We Trust the Trust Words in 10?Ks?, Myojung Cho (Lubin School of Business, Pace University), Gopal V.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation system?
Legal Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The ruling marks the latest development in a lawsuit initiated by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong in 2020 seeking to hold the oil major accountable.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.
Legal Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The Justice Department criticized the company for failing to properly implement safety and compliance in its manufacturing.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Wildfire smoke may be worse for brain health than other types of air pollution, according to new research linking it to an increased risk of dementia.
Legal IT Insider
JULY 30, 2024
In this highly interactive webinar with senior executives from Symity and Microsoft, we looked at how law firms can leverage the new functionality in Teams Premium and how it can […] The post Webinar Replay: How to leverage Microsoft Teams Premium as your entry level Generative AI tool appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Insurance Journal
JULY 30, 2024
Cowbell, a provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), announced on July 26 that it has closed a $60 million Series C equity investment from Zurich Insurance Group, a global multiline insurer.
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