Law Sites
AUGUST 20, 2024
Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 20, 2024
There's a misplaced belief among lawyers, that rehearsing and practicing is for lily-livered, milksop fraidy-cats. Says who? The post Perfecting Your Presentation Skills appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Grenada has become the first country in the world to use a so-called hurricane clause in a government bond – a special feature that allows authorities to postpone debt payments in the wake of a major natural disaster.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 20, 2024
Analog Attorney | Indian pens are a thing — affordable, beautifully crafted and they write like a dream. The post The Affordable Joy of Indian Pens appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
An upstate New York jury has awarded more than $287 million in punitive damages and other compensation to a man and the estate of his deceased girlfriend following a fatal accident involving their Harley-Davidson “trike” motorcycle.
Complex Discovery
AUGUST 20, 2024
Editor’s Note: In a move that could shape the future of digital governance and online safety, San Francisco has launched a lawsuit against 18 websites and applications accused of producing AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). This case, led by City Attorney David Chiu, addresses the disturbing rise of platforms that exploit generative AI to create explicit images without consent, often victimizing women and girls.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
Journalists and book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson have filed suit against generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic, on behalf of a class of plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California – San Francisco Division, alleging widespread copyright infringement of “hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
A federal judge ruled the US Federal Trade Commission can’t enforce its near-total ban on noncompete agreements that was set to go into effect next month, blocking an effort by the agency to make labor markets more competitive.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 20, 2024
Tacit approval of Alaska Air acquiring the smaller carrier comes after the department sued to successfully block two previous airline combinations.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
US firms have warned that parts of a proposed cyber law could grant the Hong Kong government unusual access to their computer systems, highlighting the latest challenge to Western tech giants in the city.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday reversed and remanded the Western District of Texas district court’s decision that Claim 1 of Neonode’s patent for a tablet display was indefinite. Neonode sued Samsung Electronics for infringement of its U.S. Patent No. 8,095,879 and the district court ultimately said it found itself presented with “three equally competing interpretations of what” claim 1 means.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, announced the acquisition of Anthony James Insurance Brokers, subject to regulatory approval. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Complex Discovery
AUGUST 20, 2024
Editor’s Note: The rapid advancements in generative AI are reshaping the landscape of legal practice, offering new avenues for efficiency and innovation. This EDRM workshop, sponsored by HaystackID, provides an invaluable opportunity for legal professionals to gain practical insights into the implementation of AI-driven workflows. This workshop will explore the real-world applications of AI, from early case assessment to document review, offering a comprehensive view of how legal teams can harne
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those confirmed missing by Italian authorities along with British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch after the luxury yacht they were on board sank off the coast of Sicily early Monday.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2024
As an update to my previous posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, August 2021, 2022, 2023, and February 2024, the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank decision has just passed. Yet, there is still no end to the debate over when a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none” (as eloquently phrased over 76 years ago by then-Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Funk Bros
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Commercial property/casualty premium increases in the second quarter 2024 were flat or down from the previous quarter for all lines of business—evidence of a softening insurance market, according to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) quarterly survey.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 20, 2024
Companies don’t have to retreat from activism to avoid backlash if they align their values with their business in a way that makes sense, a law professor says.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Marsh, the insurance broker and Marsh McLennan subsidiary, announced the launch of a first of its kind $50 million port blockage insurance facility, covering shipping ports and terminals around the world.
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Your Trial Message
AUGUST 20, 2024
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Sometimes in civil cases, the plaintiff’s liability claim is opportunistic, wishful, or factually weak. Other times, it is real. Someone didn’t do their job, a danger was missed, or — in that Olympic champion of passive-voice phrases — “mistakes were made.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Las Vegas set a heat record of 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2C) in 1942, and for 82 years no weather system could budge it. Thermometers registered the same temperature four more times, all since 2005, without setting a new high.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 20, 2024
Amicus briefs in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ongoing lawsuit concerning its climate disclosure rule find institutional investors and businesses largely on opposite sides.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Taiwan’s CTBC Financial Holding Co. said it plans to buy smaller rival Shin Kong Financial Holding Co., a move that could form the island’s largest financial conglomerate.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 20, 2024
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said it closed down 615 cryptocurrency investment scams in the first year of a program to tackle fake investment websites. The closures comprise about 9% of the total 7,300 phishing and other investment scam websites the regulator said it identified in a Monday statement. Australians lost A$1.3 billion ($870 million) to investment scams last year, ASIC said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Thunderstorms are forecast across the Mediterranean from Corfu to Sicily, where a luxury yacht sank off the coast on Monday after being struck by a waterspout, a form of tornado.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 20, 2024
A suit by Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings LLP investors has mostly survived a recent US Supreme Court decision in their case holding that a “pure omission” can’t support a securities fraud claim, the Second Circuit ruled Monday. Allegations that the conglomerate omitted information about a regulatory trend and its effect on Macquarie’s fuel oil storage business must be excised from the proposed class action under the high court’s ruling, the appeals panel said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Litigation that seeks to win Medicare reimbursements from insurance companies has become a huge business over the last decade, making one Miami lawyer a billionaire and causing expensive, ongoing legal headaches for property-casualty insurers.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 20, 2024
In-house investigations counsel have been dissecting the Department of Justice’s new corporate whistleblower awards pilot program. The three-year initiative, effective Aug. 1, demonstrates the DOJ’s continued commitment to combating corporate crime. But it complicates one of the most critical tools in the fight against corporate malfeasance—the internal investigation.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
In Fernley, Nevada, east of Reno, there are 16 cords that rapidly charge electric vehicles — not bad for a city of just 24,000 people. This weekend, that ratio will be upended.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 20, 2024
“The allegations here show that Ye engaged in erratic, inappropriate, and antisemitic behavior between 2013 to 2018 and beyond,” Immergut said. “But the question before this Court is not whether to admonish Ye or hold Adidas morally accountable for Ye’s conduct,” she said. None of the targeted company statements are actionable for securities fraud, she said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
USAA announced that its chief executive officer and president, Wayne Peacock will retire during the first half of 2025, after 36 years at the company—serving the last five as CEO.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 20, 2024
In Michael Wilson & Partners, Ltd v Short [2024] EWHC 2113 (Ch) Master Clark granted the claimant relief from sanctions in a case that had become automatically stayed under CPR 15.11.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Ryan Specialty said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Greenhill Underwriting Insurance Services from Alera Group, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 20, 2024
In Christodoulides v Holbech [2024] EWHC 2172 (SCCO) Deputy Costs Judge Roy KC refused a claimant’s application to revisit a provisional assessment. The claimant (the paying party) had not complied with the rules when attempting to challenge the bill and.
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