Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Recently, Attorney at Work asked readers to share their note-taking habits and favorite note-taking tools. Read on for the results. The post Lawyers’ Note-Taking Habits: Analog Attorney Survey Results appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Law Sites
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation.
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Lawmatics
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
You wouldn’t set sail without a course—so why run a law firm without any clear KPIs? Custom dashboards are your navigational charts, guiding you through the sea of data toward smarter, more strategic decisions. In the latest Deep Dive Webinar, Product Manager Devon Roth delves into how these custom dashboard data visualizations can revolutionize your law firm's efficiency.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Hotter summers in Canada that have sparked wildfires in tourist areas, intense hailstorms and thunderstorms with severe flooding in major cities, all likely linked to climate change, are leading to personnel shortages and potentially claims adjustment delays, according to insurance …
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IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision affirming a district court’s finding that patent claims directed to “receiving metadata and organizing the display of video content based on that metadata” are abstract. The CAFC also rejected the patent owner’s argument that the district court improperly performed an Alice step two inquiry at Alice step one.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Insured losses have surged in the past decade as climate change in Canada sparks wildfires, intense hailstorms and thunderstorms with severe flooding in major cities. Insured losses from natural disasters averaged C$2.2 billion ($1.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
As the market for in-house insurance surpasses a record $200 billion, the underlying reasons for that boom show how a hotter, less stable planet is redrawing the risk map for corporations.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Last week we hosted our first annual Women’s IP Forum, which was a huge success. During early planning for the program USPTO Director Kathi Vidal was immediately enthusiastic and supportive. We were honored to have Director Vidal join us to kick off the program—a program that featured 100% women. In speaking with Renee Quinn at the program, Director Vidal would go on to discuss how she started down the STEM path and ultimately found herself with a career in law and specifically in the IP field.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Conifer Holdings announced that it completed the sale of its insurance agency operations for consideration equal to $45 million (subject to transaction expenses and customary purchase price adjustments), plus possible additional earn-out payments of up to $25 million based on …
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Both incorporation hubs try to get the right balance of protections for stakeholders but the way they do it leads to different biases.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Urban expansion, property exposure and climate change could fuel a 40% increase in annual natural-catastrophe losses for the global insurance industry, according to a new report.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Some customers deposited bad checks and immediately withdrew funds before the checks bounced in a glitch that went viral on TikTok. Now, some users have holds on their accounts.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday shut the door on businesses seeking to be paid by the state for restrictions that harmed sales during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Your Trial Message
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Every trial lawyer I know believes that they are adapting their communication in order to get the jury — or, for that matter, the judge — to understand. At the same time, they will still try to be concise, correct, and specific.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Fitch Ratings published midyear underwriting results for 19 non-life reinsurers, finding that the group’s average first-half 2024 combined ratio was 84.2, and forecasting continued profits for the rest of 2024 and 2025 also.
Practice Panther
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
This week, we’re spotlighting Slingbaum Law, a distinguished firm known for its dedication to justice and client care. Founded by Matthew Slingbaum, this growing firm with a team of eight specializes in nursing home negligence and medical malpractice cases. With a strong background in both medicine and law, Matthew has built a practice that combines his passions to help those in need.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Ryan Specialty, the Chicago-based international specialty insurance firm, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of the European managing general agent Geo Underwriting Europe BV (Geo Europe), part of London-based Ardonagh Group.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Florida-based Galois Capital Management LLC, a former registered investment adviser for a private fund that primarily invested in crypto assets, for failing to comply with requirements related to the safeguarding of client assets, including crypto assets being offered and sold as securities.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
AG Equipment Company, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma compressor packaging manufacturer, violated federal law when it fired 10 employees for failing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination because of their religious beliefs or medical restrictions, the U.S.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing the nation’s broker-dealer regulator, Finra, on its claim that success in kicking bad actors out of the industry explains why enforcement numbers have plummeted in recent years. Fines levied by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority have dwindled to half their recent levels, and the number of enforcement actions last year was the lowest in history, Bloomberg News reported in June.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Oil service company Halliburton on Tuesday said a cyberattack last month has caused “disruptions and limitations” to business applications that support operations.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. said it intends to pursue the $4 billion damages claim in London against the estate of the recently deceased British tech tycoon Mike Lynch. Just over a week after the bodies of Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, were recovered from the wreck of his sunken yacht, the US company said it planned to collect any damages that are awarded by a London court.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Authorities are investigating the weekend collapse of a portion of bleachers at a rodeo arena in Texas, injuring 12 people near San Antonio. Emergency responders arrived at the rodeo arena shortly after 9 p.m.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Short sellers are beefing up disclaimers in their research reports in the clearest signal yet that last month’s criminal charges against Andrew Left are reverberating through the industry. Hindenburg Research and Kerrisdale Capitalboth upped warnings in reports this week in the wake of the charges against Left, who is accused of misleading investors by making quick trades after issuing his investment recommendations.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had confirmed the 28th death in the United States stemming from a defective Takata air bag inflator since 2009. The issue has prompted the largest-ever recall in U.S. history.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Big Law firms have amassed more than $750 million in legal fees from cryptocurrency-related bankruptcies, but the lucrative work resulting from a scandal-plagued period is inching toward the finish line. A group of 22 major law firms is working on seven Chapter 11 bankruptcies stemming from the crypto fallout that began in 2022. They have been paid or requested fees worth $751 million as of mid-August, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of court documents.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXIS Capital Holdings and Lockton Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXIS Names White as Head of Aviation, Succeeding Wood AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Illumina will avoid a penalty of 432 million euros after a court ruled the European Commission did not have jurisdiction to challenge the company’s Grail acquisition.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Ryan Specialty, the Chicago-based international specialty insurance firm, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the property and casualty (P&C) MGUs owned by Ethos Specialty Insurance LLC from Ascot Group Ltd.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The lack of support for environmental and social proposals comes after the nation's second-largest asset manager supported just 2% in 2023.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Four people were injured after a bus carrying the Abilene Christian University football team was involved in a crash with another vehicle in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday night.
Legal IT Insider
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Gen AI startup Harvey has released a benchmarking framework for quantitatively evaluating the performance of large language models on real-world legal tasks. The model supplements, it says, prior work that […] The post “The Gen AI LLM benchmarking war starts here”: Harvey releases new evaluation framework appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
STEELE, N.D. (AP) — Tornadic winds knocked nearly four dozen train cars off a track in North Dakota, part of a storm system that spurred reports of five tornadoes across the Dakotas.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Eighty-five percent of corporate finance professionals now view such scams as an “existential” threat, a Medius study found.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Hewlett Packard said Monday it would continue legal proceedings to seek up to $4 billion in damages from British billionaire Mike Lynch’s estate in the UK. The U.S.
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