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JULY 10, 2024
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Attorney at Work
JULY 10, 2024
David Hunter | The biggest factor driving your financial health is your behavior — understand where your money is going and focus on these four metrics. The post Attorney Financial Planning Made Simple: 4 Vital Signs You Need to Track appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 10, 2024
The deadline for comments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on terminal disclaimer practice was July 9 and several key organizations weighed in just as the door was closing. One of those commenters was the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which claimed in its comment letter that “[t]he use of terminal disclaimers linking similar patent claims can exacerbate the exclusionary impact of patent thickets by forcing potential market entrants to inc
Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
Hurricane Beryl’s path of destruction through the Caribbean last week triggered a record $44 million payout to the nation of Grenada from a regional catastrophe insurance fund.
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WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
COLUMN > Write to Counsel Illustration © Getty/Alisa Zahoruiko WRITE TO US > If you have a question about legal writing that you’d like to see addressed in a future “Write to Counsel” column by UW Law writing faculty, please submit it to wabarnews@wsba.org , with the subject line “Write to Counsel.” BY David J.S. Ziff You don’t need to know much math as a lawyer.
Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
Society Insurance, headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, elected Sherman Brown of Chicago as a director at its annual meeting of policyholders. Thomas Gross retired from Society’s board of directors after serving for 27 years.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
A flood watch was declared for much of Vermont on Wednesday — the anniversary of last summer’s severe flooding — and also Thursday, with heavy rains in the forecast. As Gov.
Practice Panther
JULY 10, 2024
To operate a successful law firm, you must invest in a marketing strategy to compete with other lawyers in the industry. “Selling yourself” does not always come naturally for all lawyers; however, with the right marketing tips, it does not require that you have an outgoing personality or a lot of money. It does require that you put some thought into how you can market yourself and your law firm in a way that will attract new clients and keep current clients returning when they need legal service
Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
Elon Musk won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he refused to pay at least $500 million of severance to thousands of Twitter employees he fired in mass layoffs after buying the social media company now known as X. U.S.
IP Watchdog
JULY 10, 2024
Last week, just before the holiday weekend, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas issued a memorandum opinion supporting the entry of a preliminary injunction against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule banning non-compete provisions from U.S. employment contracts. While the requested relief is limited to the plaintiffs named in the action, the ruling marks an important victory for business interests opposing the rule and intellectual property advocates warn
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Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
An escalation in geopolitical conflicts is the biggest risk to the global economy, according to central bank reserve managers, who are generally positive about the world’s economic outlook, according to an annual survey released on Thursday.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
Washington’s anti-SLAPP statute analyzed in recent Court of Appeals decisions Illustration © Getty/wildpixel by Jessica L. Goldman Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) laws are of recent vintage and are intended to protect important public speech from costly, nonmeritorious lawsuits used to silence such speech. Thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., have anti-SLAPP laws.
Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
California’s attorney general said it reached a $50 million settlement with commodity traders Vitol and SK Energy Americas Inc. after it alleged the firms acted together to manipulate local gasoline markets.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
Attendees settle in for the first of three panels during the summit to discuss the current state of LGBTQ+ rights and advocacy in legal education. Photo by Lucy Booth BY SARAH N. HARMON It was an uncharacteristically warm Spokane spring morning on Friday, April 19, as over 150 attendees—local judges, attorneys, community members, and Gonzaga University undergraduate and law school students, faculty, and staff—filtered into Gonzaga University School of Law.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
A U.S. auto safety regulator said on Wednesday that three people have been killed and two seriously injured in the last nine months by low-cost faulty replacement air bag inflators.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 10, 2024
Unsurprisingly we are returning to the judgment in Pan NOx Emissions Litigations [2024] EWHC 1728 (KB). The judges gave some examples of parts of the claimants’ budgets in particular that had been “overbudgeted” They were not shy IN setting out their.
Insurance Journal
JULY 10, 2024
A blistering California heat wave over the past weeks and through the Fourth of July holiday could be topped off by the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 10, 2024
We are continuing with the examination of the judgment of Mr Justice Constable and Senior Costs Judge Saker in Pan NOx Emissions Litigations [2024] EWHC 1728 (KB). This time by looking at the court’s consideration of issues of proportionality when.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 10, 2024
This week, there were an average number of patent filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) with 38 new filings—two post grant reviews and 36 inter partes reviews (IPRs)—while the district court saw a below-average 48 new filings. At the PTAB, Directv filed seven petitions challenging as many Entropic Communications LLC [associated with FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC)] patents.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 10, 2024
The general observations made about the budgets in Pan NOx Emissions Litigations [2024] EWHC 1728 (KB) is of importance. The court was particularly scathing of the claimants’ budget. It also rejected the claimants’ contention that the defendants’ budget had been artificially.
Legal Dive
JULY 10, 2024
North America has so far adopted an “innovation-friendly” approach to AI regulations compared to countries in Europe and Asia, a report finds.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 10, 2024
I am grateful to barrister Matthew Snarr for sending me a better copy of the judgments of HHJ Sephton KC (sitting as a High Court Judge) in Shaw -v- Wilde, a copy of that judgment is available here Shaw v Wilde Final.
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JULY 10, 2024
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WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
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Legal Dive
JULY 10, 2024
A judge allowed claims alleging theft of trade secrets and breach of contract to proceed. First Citizens claimed an SVB alum hatched a plan to persuade more than 40 employees to follow him to HSBC.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
Bar Number: 21231 Cat Clark is a surprise litigator—she found she loved it several years after graduating from law school when she joined a litigation firm: “Never did I think that litigation was my path in law school.”. What is the most interesting case you have handled in your career so far and why? I find all my cases interesting, otherwise I don’t take them.
Securities Docket
JULY 10, 2024
Two former senior FTX executives who pleaded guilty to criminal charges and played a role in their boss Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction will be sentenced later this year. Former Director of Engineering Nishad Singh and former Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang will learn their fates on Oct. 30 and Nov. 20, respectively.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
COLUMN > A Note From the WSBA Executive Director BY TERRA NEVITT Recently, the WSBA Board of Governors approved new caseload standards for public defenders despite significant objections from many local government leaders and prosecutors. Most of the pushback related to valid practical concerns: Implementing the new standards would cost too much and, even if funding were not an issue, there simply aren’t enough lawyers going into public defense to do the work.
Securities Docket
JULY 10, 2024
Physicists calculate that approximately 85% of the matter in the universe is composed of “dark matter” that “does not absorb, reflect, or emit electromagnetic radiation and is therefore difficult to detect.” The S&P 500 currently trades at a price to book value of 4.2, suggesting that book value accounts for less than 20% of the S&P 500’s market value.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
COLUMN BY FRANCIS A. ADEWALE Believe it or not, by the time you read this update we will be past the midpoint of this fiscal year. 2024 has been a year of growth and great development for your Bar Association. For those in the WSBA Finance Department and on the Budget and Audit Committee, the March 31, 2024, financials mark the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
Securities Docket
JULY 10, 2024
Dale Chappell, a Humanigen Inc. board member, is properly subject to an asset freeze in an SEC case alleging he avoided $38 million in losses through insider trading, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday. Chappell, who is also the drugmaker’s chief scientific officer, will be allowed the equivalent of his Humanigen salary—$5,637.50 every two weeks—as a carveout from the asset freeze, along with money for legal fees and other specified family expenses, according to the court.
WA Bar News
JULY 10, 2024
COLUMN > Ethics & the Law Illustration © Getty/master1305 By Mark J. Fucile The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that roughly 750,000 people are employed in private sector legal occupations nationally. 1 Of these, about half are lawyers and the other half are non-lawyers. 2 These statistics underscore the critical role non-lawyers play in law firms large and small.
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