Attorney at Work
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Pursuing personal projects or part-time work is not new for lawyers, but the great reassessment has amplified the discussion. The post Should Lawyers Consider a Side Hustle? appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
The New Hampshire State Police reported that troopers are investigating the death of an adult male found dead at the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID).
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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Beginning in 1952, neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean began developing the thesis that humans have a triune brain, a part of which consists of a reptilian complex that controls the instinctive behaviors involved in survival and reproduction of the species. David Ball and Don Keenan adapted it in their 2009 book Reptile, arguing that plaintiffs attorneys should appeal to the reptilian part of the brains of jurors.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools.
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Practice Panther
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Over the past decade, cloud computing has seriously changed how law firms operate, offering convenient access to files and legal practice management software from virtually anywhere. Most law firms now use cloud-based services for tasks ranging from document storage to billing systems. Despite its growing adoption, cloud-based technology comes with legal and ethical challenges that require careful consideration.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this week’s scramble to find consensus on a government spending bill.
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Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Frisco, Texas contractor repeatedly exposed workers to serious hazards by sending them into unprotected trenches without providing a means of escape.
Complex Discovery
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article sheds light on the troubling use of surveillance technology in Serbia, where tools designed for law enforcement are being used to target journalists, activists, and members of civil society. Amnesty Internationals findings reveal how devices like Cellebrites forensic tools and NoviSpy spyware are employed to bypass security, extract private data, and monitor communications, often without any legal justification.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Catastrophe-bond issuance rose to a record this year, increasing the overall market to almost $50 billion, as insurers transferred more risk from costly climate disasters to private investors.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Part I of our summary concluded with a discussion about the potential impact of the recent U.S. Federal elections on the regulation of patents relating to industry standards, including with respect to the availability of injunctive relief. We pick up our discussion on a related note, by turning to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), where the primary remedy is an exclusion order.
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Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Insurance trade organizations are always working for the industry so Insurance Journal asked them: What are the top priorities and/or challenges heading into 2025? Here are the responses we received: David A.
Securities Docket
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Hiring good people for compliance departments is getting harder as young professionals increasingly gravitate toward business careers with more curb appeal. Many in the sector say it is a struggle to hire top early-career professionals, in part because of its emphasis on helping companies stay ahead of legal requirements. It is also a grind to recruit young professionals with the necessary mindset and skills for compliance work, employers say. […] You dont go to school to become a complian
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
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Securities Docket
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C. is proud to announce the addition of Lisa Zornberg, a leading practitioner and former Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Zornberg, known for her skills as an advocate and her effectiveness in court, will join as a partner on March 3, 2025.
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Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
federal government has dropped huge gates at the mouths of three inlets, as well as internal waterway barriers from a plan to protect New Jersey’s back bays from the type of catastrophic flooding they endured during Superstorm Sandy.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Regime change is upon on us! You two [Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy] have been identified among those who will have considerable influence on policy and procedure for various government enterprise in the coming presidential administration. Hence, I write this letter in the hope it may affect your thinking as to the patent system and its current implementation in the United States.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
The National Flood Insurance Program has been renewed for another three months. On Dec.
Securities Docket
DECEMBER 26, 2024
President-elect Donald Trumps pick to police Wall Street and corporate America is poised to focus on enforcement actions against individual executives and to roll back Biden-era regulations, sparking more private litigation against companies and their leadershipand, often, leaving insurers on the hook. Its potentially just open season on government regulation, said Bradley Dlatt, a Perkins Coie attorney who represents corporate policyholders.
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Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Preconstruction work to collect data to design a new Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is scheduled to begin in January, according to Maryland officials.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation Special Agents arrested a former employee with the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans on December 20 for allegedly committing workers’ compensation fraud.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
B.F. Saul Insurance, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, appointed John Horcher, Jr. as a commercial lines producer. Horcher is based in Philadelphia. Horcher’s previous roles include vice president positions at Marsh, HUB International and Arthur J.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
The top U.S. watchdog agency for consumer finance on Monday accused Rocket Homes, a unit of Rocket Companies, and The Jason Mitchell Group of real estate brokerages of an illegal kickback scheme to steer mortgage applications back to Rocket.
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Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Cockpit voice recordings released Wednesday indicate Japanese coast guard pilots wrongly thought they could enter an active runway minutes before being struck by a Japan Airlines Co. jet.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Kazakh authorities said that a rescue team has recovered 38 bodies at the crash site of Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer SA 190 aircraft as clean-up efforts continue.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Afina Insurance Advisors Inc. (Afina Insurance). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Afina Insurance is a property/casualty insurance broker serving clients in greater Chicago.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A boat explosion at a South Florida marina has left one person dead and six others injured, officials said. The explosion occurred Monday night about 6 p.m.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Matt PetgHockey player Matt Petgrave has called the death of Adam Johnson “a tragic accident” in a public appeal for donations to his legal costs amid a police investigation.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit last week in Lancaster County District Court against Change Healthcare alleging violations of the state’s Consumer Protection and Data Security Laws.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Florida’s Department of Financial Services has posted its enforcement actions for much of the last half of 2024, listing 12 insurance agents and 43 adjusters who were penalized, suspended, or had their licenses revoked or voluntarily surrendered them.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
In late September, an experienced pilot at low-cost European airline Wizz Air felt anxious after learning his plane would fly over Iraq at night amid mounting tensions between nearby Iran and Israel.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 26, 2024
Some infectious diseases saw a huge surge in 2024, with the spread attributed in part to climate change, declining vaccination rates and the advent of new pathogen variants.
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