Law Sites
JANUARY 9, 2025
With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the ninth-annual Startup Alley atABA TECHSHOW, April 2-5,2025.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
With aerial firefighting returning as strong Southern California winds died down for a bit, damage assessments from a handful of destructive Los Angeles area blazes are sure to become clearerlikely pushing up billion-dollar-plus insured loss estimates put forth from fires …
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E-Discovery LLC
JANUARY 9, 2025
In Fond-du-Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa v. Cummins , 2025 WL 26046 (Jan. 3, 2025), the court addressed privilege among two jointly related companies. Plaintiff, the Band, sought judicial review of a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and a mining company, PolyMet. PolyMet sought review of the U.S. Magistrate Judges decision that it failed to meet the burden of showing that approximately 500 documents were privileged.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The conflagrations tearing across Los Angeles are on track to be among the most expensive wildfire disasters in U.S. history, draining insurance coffers and threatening California’s massive state-sponsored insurance program.
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
A Delaware court approved the deal to settle a complaint accusing the automaker’s directors of overpaying themselves for several years.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A major grower said this week it is abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida’s signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases. Alico Inc.
Trial Strategy Today brings together the best content for law professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Insurers saw the third most expensive year for natural catastrophe losses in 2024 reaching a total of US$140 billion as climate change “is showing its claws,” according to Munich Re.
Complex Discovery
JANUARY 9, 2025
Editors Note: This article offers a concise overview of the eDiscovery industrys mergers, acquisitions, and investments from 2001 through 2024. With a focus on the transformative activity of 2024, it examines key trends, historical milestones, and the relationship between M&A activity and market growth. The listing of events in this report is based on publicly available information, and while it may not capture every transaction, it is representative of the majority of significant activities
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Flooding poses the greatest threat to supply chains this year, as warm ocean temperatures fuel more frequent and disruptive storms, including powerful hurricanes, according to a report.
Ball in Your Court
JANUARY 9, 2025
A practical guide for trial lawyers who want to try out AI LLMs (ChatGPT-4) in their practice and including simple-to-follow instructions and prompt examples.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The commercial property market is showing signs of stabilization, and buyers with favorable risk profiles will see rate decreases or low-single-digit increases this year, according to USI Insurance Services’ 2025 Commercial Property & Casualty Market Outlook.
Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
Document management systems are often unwieldy, but there are ways to securely separate what’s important from what’s not — even as attorneys double down on remote work.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov.
Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
The suit, filed by workers at Hyatt Regency Long Beach, was the first of its kind under one of several city-level regulations intended to improve working conditions for hotel housekeepers.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
American International Group (AIG) said Christopher Flatt, currently head of AIG North America alternative channels, has been named global chief underwriting officer, effective immediately.
Practice Panther
JANUARY 9, 2025
The cost of legal practice management software depends on its functions, features, and the number of users you plan to have. But as software has become more powerful and affordable to produce, it has also become more accessible to law firms of all sizes even solo practitioners. Pricing will vary depending on the vendor, of course, but so does the structure of said pricing.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence and so on researchers in the field of neuroergonomics are using technology to improve how …
Destination Articles Blog
JANUARY 9, 2025
Attending legal conferences, seminars, and workshops is often part of your professional routine as a lawyer. These events help you stay updated on legal trends and earn the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits required to maintain your license. The bonus? Many of these events require travel, so you can make the most of your expenses by earning travel rewards.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), headquartered in Philadelphia, named Steve Firko as executive vice president and chief operating officer overseeing all front-line customer-focused operating departments, including underwriting, field operations, claims, loss control, marketing, customer service, and operations.
Civil Litigation Brief
JANUARY 9, 2025
In Smith v McAlpine [2024] EWHC 3408 (KB) Senior Master Cook varied an order for costs that had been made after an application had been considered on the papers. After considering further submissions he found that his original order, that.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently signed legislation increasing the minimum coverage limits of auto insurance for some mandatory coverages.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 9, 2025
Frantz’s move to DLA Piper’s New York office marks at least the fifth Big Law hire of a senior in-house lawyer this week, following moves to Husch Blackwell, Squire Patton Boggs, Sheppard Mullin, and Davis Wright Tremaine.[…] Macrae recruiter Jon Truster said he’s seeing senior in-house attorneys join Big Law firms at a higher rate as the compensation rift between Big Law and in-house widens.
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited Safeway $182,000 in proposed penalties for safety violations that reportedly put roughly 1,700 workers at risk of serious injuries at the company’s warehouse in Tracy, their largest facility in the nation.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 9, 2025
Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwons criminal fraud trial in the U.S. has been tentatively scheduled for next January, allowing prosecutors and Kwons defense attorneys adequate time to review the massive six-terabyte trove of data expected to be produced during the discovery process. During an initial hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, lead prosecutor Jared Lenow told the court that the government expected to face additional delays due to challenges accessing encrypted information a
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers.
Civil Litigation Brief
JANUARY 9, 2025
An updated set of Additional Tables have been added to The Ogden Tables today to include the 0.5% rate that came into force in January. THE UPDATES The updates can be found on this link.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Apple clarified on Wednesday that it has never sold the data collected by its Siri voice assistant or used it to create marketing profiles, just days after settling a case in which it faced such accusations.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 9, 2025
Cryptocurrency platform Kraken during a court hearing Wednesday appeared unlikely to revive a key legal defense in its battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over whether it should have registered as a securities broker. Judge William H. Orrick III said he had already determined in a prior ruling that Kraken couldnt invoke the major questions doctrine, a legal principle that says agencies lack regulatory power over important economic issues unless Congress explicitly designated th
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
General agency Warner Pacific said it has acquired five general agencies from broker and fintech specialist, Acrisure, effective Dec. 1 2024. Financial terms were not disclosed. Westlake Village, California-based Warner Pacific’s Jan.
E-Discovery Team
JANUARY 9, 2025
The article explores Google's quantum computer, Willow, which reportedly performs computations that would take classical computers longer than the universe's age. Scientists, such as Hartmut Neven, suggest that this speed stems from utilizing parallel universes. Innovations like real-time error correction allow quantum systems to minimize noise interference.
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Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.
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