Attorney at Work
JUNE 27, 2024
Sally Schmidt | If you haven't learned your client's preferences, you are basically saying you don't care what's important to them. The post From the Client’s Perspective: How to Keep Client Relationships From Veering Off Track appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
E-Discovery LLC
JUNE 27, 2024
In Stuart v. County of Riverside , 2024 WL 3086634 (C.D. Cal. Jun 14, 2024), the assertion of work product protection in a privilege log supported an inference that the subsequent deletion of ESI was done with a culpable state of mind. “Work product” protection begins when material is prepared in anticipation of litigation. The duty to preserve is triggered when litigation is reasonably anticipated.
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Complex Discovery
JUNE 27, 2024
Editor’s Note: This concise article offers cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals a valuable snapshot of the current cyber threat landscape, particularly concerning China. It efficiently highlights key strategic insights, regulatory considerations, and technological trends crucial for these professionals. By touching on collective defense strategies, data protection needs, incident response lessons, and the importance of cross-sector collaboration, the article
IP Watchdog
JUNE 27, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a draft Request for Comments (RFC) today seeking public feedback “on the current state of the experimental use exception jurisprudence and whether legislative action should be considered to enact a statutory experimental use exception.” The experimental use defense to patent infringement arises out of jurisprudence dating back to 1813 that allows some non-commercial experimentation with patented subject matter for limited purposes.
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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips
JUNE 27, 2024
There are a volume of available ideas and outlines for the discovery deposition of a medical malpractice expert including advice to not take the deposition at all in some circumstances. Here is a very basic outline, you can use as a format for your case. A. INTRODUCTION 1. Identification of attorney. 2. Important to understand question before answering.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 27, 2024
Few, if any, artists own the master recordings to their early albums. Not the Beatles, not Dylan, not Springsteen. Taylor Swift is no different. Labels gamble on acts and part of the upside if they hit—the quid pro quo, if you will—is owning valuable master recordings. Without control of these potential assets, they would likely walk away from most deals.
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 27, 2024
This week we have looked back at some of the consistent topics on this blog over the past 11 years: expert evidence; witness statements; proving things, among them. I could have added many others: Part 36; service (or non-service) of.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 27, 2024
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing on June 12, 2024 titled the “The U.S. Intellectual Property System and the Impact of Litigation Financed by Third-Party Investors and Foreign Entities.” They were tasked with examining the impact of third-party funding and foreign entities regarding U.S. patent litigation.
Legal IT Insider
JUNE 27, 2024
Register to receive Legal IT Insider’s Generative AI Report, out soon! Generative AI is the biggest technological development since the creation of the internet and will transform the way that […] The post LITI Launches 2024 Generative Ai Report appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 27, 2024
As part of the looking back series this week I have chosen a case from the “Proving things” series in June 2017. The post looked at the judgment of HHJ Paul Matthews (sitting as a High Court Judge) in Jones -v- Oven.
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Legal Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
This 6-3 ruling strikes down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house system for deciding civil fraud penalties.
MyCase
JUNE 27, 2024
Reducing your law firm overhead goes hand in hand with better serving your clients. After all, with more consistent cash flow, you can spend more on the critical resources, tools, and staff that make or break your reputation. Even with a steady influx of clients and cases, many law firms struggle to maintain steady revenue. Over time, even small leaks can lead to missed opportunities and unsatisfied clients.
Legal Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
The organization also asked employers about menopause benefits for the first time in the history of its annual employee benefits survey.
MyCase
JUNE 27, 2024
Do you know how much money flows into and out of your practice—and whether business expenses and profits are serving your firm’s goals? Taking charge of your law firm’s spend management strategy is crucial to running and maintaining a successful practice. Tracking client expenses, managing monthly budgets, and keeping tabs on your expenses, operating costs, and profitability paves the way for a sustainable future.
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Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is issuing this announcement to inform the public of an emerging criminal tactic used to further defraud cryptocurrency scam victims. This PSA is an update to Alert Number I-081123-PSA, published on 08/11/2023, titled, “Increase in Companies Falsely Claiming an Ability to Recover Funds Lost in Cryptocurrency Investment Scams.” Using social media or other messaging platforms, fraudsters posing as lawyers representing fictitious law firms may c
SW&L Attorneys Blog
JUNE 27, 2024
Contributor: Adam Justinger Introduction Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be on a jury ? Have you ever been summoned for jury duty ? Oftentimes as lawyers, we get asked how to get out of jury duty. While this is normally said in a joking manner, it is important to understand how important jury duty is in our society. As a citizen, it is your civic duty to serve on a jury when called.
Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
A federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, convicted a Florida man today for his lead role in an international conspiracy to break into U.S. citizens’ homes, violently kidnap and assault them, and steal their Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Remy St Felix, 24, of West Palm Beach, was a leader of a robbery crew that targeted cryptocurrency owners through violent home invasions.
The Marshall Project
JUNE 27, 2024
As crime data again becomes a flashpoint in the presidential campaign, experts push for better national statistics.
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Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
Bradley is pleased to announce that Robert “Bob” J. McGahan has joined the firm as a partner in the Banking & Financial Services and Government Enforcement & Investigations practice groups. Mr. McGahan joins from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP.
Legal Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
The Biden and Trump administrations have stepped up use of briefs in private antitrust actions. How they’re wielded might point to where the agency will sue next.
Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
In a move that significantly bolsters its presence in Paris and further strengthens its global litigation platform, Paul Hastings LLP announced today that premier white collar defense and investigations lawyer, Antonin Lévy, and his preeminent litigation and investigations boutique, Antonin Lévy & Associés, will join the firm. The 12-lawyer team, which includes Lévy, partners Ophélia Claude, and Joris Monin de Flaugergues, and nine associates, will be folded into Paul Hastings’ global platfo
Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
Financial trading platform Robinhood Markets Inc. prevailed in a suit alleging it agreed to freeze trades of highly shorted GameStop stock options after the 11th Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the case. The US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in a Wednesday opinion held that investor plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege an unreasonable restraint of trade because they didn’t allege harm to a relevant market.
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Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
Until now, the SEC’s campaign against AI washing has targeted registered investment advisers, broker-dealers and public companies. For example, SEC Chair Gary Gensler declared in March 2024 that “AI washing, whether it’s by financial intermediaries such as investment advisers and broker dealers, or by companies raising money from the public, that AI washing may violate the securities laws.
Securities Docket
JUNE 27, 2024
Market orders are famously risky, because occasionally prices surprise you. So 99.99% of the time, what happens is that you see Amalgamated Widgets stock trading at $20 per share, and you say “I would like some of that,” and you put in an order to buy 100 shares of Amalgamated Widgets at whatever the market price is, and by the time you press the button on your order and it runs through your broker’s systems and gets to the trading venue and gets filled, the price is, like, $20.01, or $20.02, or
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