Law Sites
AUGUST 1, 2024
I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of law schools that offer AI classes. The survey found that 55% of responding law schools offer such classes. A Reuters news story picked up on that and reported, “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 1, 2024
I have spent a good deal of my career trying to get lawyers to spend less time with other lawyers and more time with clients and prospects. In many cases, a lawyer’s business development and networking efforts are more effective when spent in industry or business-related organizations than bar association groups. However, there are certainly times when relationships with other lawyers can lead to client development opportunities, especially when those lawyers don’t do what you do.
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Law Sites
AUGUST 1, 2024
For a law firm, choosing and deploying software raises many questions. How do I protect client confidentiality? Where does artificial intelligence fit in? What is the best software for my firm’s needs? How do I drive staff training and adoption?
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 1, 2024
Teddy Snyder | Listicles’ unique format conveys a message more effectively than clutter on the page. Even for legal arguments. The post Get Your Point Across With a Listicle appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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The Marshall Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
California's Proposition 36 is one effort to return the U.S. to "tough-on-crime" tactics despite declining crime rates. Can reformers stop rollbacks?
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 1, 2024
On the same day that a group of senators introduced a bill—the “NO FAKES Act”—to create a right for individuals to control digital replicas of their voice and likeness, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a report addressing digital replicas created by artificial intelligence (AI). This is part one of the agency’s broader report on issues related to the exploding use of generative AI platforms.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch near Skellytown, he decided he had had enough.
Ball in Your Court
AUGUST 1, 2024
Yesterday, I sought to defend the value of my law school course on E-Discovery & Digital Evidence to a law Dean who readily conceded that she didn’t know what e-discovery was or why it would be an important thing for lawyers to understand. It was a bracing experience.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf job applicant because of his disability.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 1, 2024
In a precedential decision today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determination that all claims of a patent on voice command technology were unpatentable, but clarified that arguments not raised in a PTAB request for rehearing are not necessarily forfeited on appeal.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
Massachusetts businesses with more than 25 employees must disclose salary ranges when posting jobs, under a new bill signed into law Wednesday that puts the commonwealth in line with 10 other states that already require pay transparency.
The Marshall Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
News Inside Issue 17 features the opinions of justice-affected people on Trump’s felonies, and a nonfiction comic about death penalty mitigation.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
BNP Paribas is in exclusive talks with French insurer AXA to buy 100% of its AXA Investment Managers arm at an agreed price of 5.1 billion euros ($5.50 billion), the euro zone’s biggest bank said on Thursday.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 1, 2024
In Goodfellow v Warren Boyes & Archer (A Firm) [2024] EWHC 2015 (KB)Master Thornett rejected an argument that a former partner in a solicitors’ practice had been validly served when proceedings were sent to the company that had purchased that.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 1, 2024
In the judgment today in Signature Litigation LLP v Ivanishvili [2024] EWCA Civ 901 the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier decision of Costs Judge Leonard that a series of bills rendered by the appellant solicitors were not interim statute.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
Potential initial public offerings by a slew of UK financial services firms could drive the next stage of Europe’s recovery after momentum in new listings slowed sharply.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 1, 2024
In Wells v Hornshaw & Ors [2024] EWHC 2019 (Ch) Mr Justice Adam Johnson rejected a petitioner’s argument that a Part 36 offer remained open for acceptance. There had been a trial after the Part 36 offer had been made. .
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
A report from Moody’s Ratings service contends that one good hurricane this year could wipe out the Florida Cat Fund’s reserves, potentially forcing it to place a small surcharge on Florida insurance premiums to finance more debt.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 1, 2024
Even if the SAFER Banking Act passes, the infrastructure exists within the cannabis industry for third parties to do the kind of accrediting the Joint Commission does for the healthcare field, says attorney F. Miles Adler.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
The attorney general for Washington, D.C., sued StubHub on Wednesday, accusing the ticket resale platform of advertising deceptively low prices and then ramping up prices with extra fees.
Legal IT Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
In this 28th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, discusses with leading legal analyst Ari Kaplan some of the latest large […] The post Charting Change in Legal Podcast, episode 28 – Listen Here! appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 1, 2024
Delaware’s new corporate law amendments taking effect Thursday reinforce common practices vulnerable to litigation, after a landmark court order invalidating a billionaire founder’s veto rights over board decisions, corporate attorneys say. William Regner, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, said the amendments will allow clients to be “a bit more relaxed about putting something in an agreement rather than in a charter.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
Apple on Thursday asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by federal and state antitrust regulators accusing it of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market, saying the case would have a judge redesign its popular iPhone.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 1, 2024
Because the SEC’s victory came in the form of a jury verdict, there is no opinion articulating the basis on which the jury concluded the defendant breached a duty to his employer by using information he learned through his employment to trade in another company’s securities. As a result, employers are left wondering what the Panuwat verdict means for them and their employees.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, announced the launch of its Active Cyber Insurance in Germany through its subsidiary, Coalition Insurance Solutions GmbH. Coalition’s offerings became available on Aug. 1, 2024.
Expert Witness Blog
AUGUST 1, 2024
Introduction In the case of Bryan v. Swisher , No. 22-995 (Ga. Ct. App. 2023), the expertise of an Accident Reconstruction Expert Witness was crucial.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
Geo Underwriting, the managing general agency and subsidiary of Ardonagh Advisory, announced it will acquire Navigators & General (N&G) from Zurich UK. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 1, 2024
Enabling business functions to create contracts in Slack and other workspaces helps increase buy-in, the head of a legal tech company says.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 1, 2024
A hacking group believed to be linked to the Chinese government stole passwords and documentsfrom a Taiwanese government-affiliated research center that specializes in computing, cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 1, 2024
Don Lemon says the social media platform used his fame and failed to pay him after Musk abruptly canceled their express content agreement.
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