Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

If you ever worked in a large law firm (think BigLaw), it probably looked like balance would be much easier to achieve outside that institution. What a shock, then, to find out that work-life balance as a solo attorney is no easier to find, even without a senior partner breathing down your neck. Plus, your […] The post Finding Work-Life Balance as a Solo: Ethics Tips appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Law Sites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“Cooperation” has long been a hallmark of resolution of ESI issues. See, e.g., Historical ESI Highlights – Part VIII – Cooperation and The Cooperation Proclamation (May 31, 2022). It was an honor to be appointed by the U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland as the “ESI Discovery Supervisor” in a complex commercial case, with the task of “oversee[ing] the negotiation of an ESI protocol.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in harm’s way.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gemini Data, Inc., an AI software company, has sued Google, LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the rebranding of Google’s AI chatbot from BARD to GEMINI represents a “calculated decision to bulldoze over Gemini Data’s exclusive rights without hesitation.” In February 2024, Google announced it would be re-branding BARD to GEMINI and attempted to register the trademark with the U.S.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Chinese regulators on Friday hit PwC’s auditing unit in mainland China with a six-month business suspension and a record fine of 441 million yuan ($62 million) over the firm’s audit of troubled property developer China Evergrande Group.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Texas is inching closer to adopting revised oil and gas waste management rules for the first time in four decades. The Railroad Commission of Texas announced the draft rule at its Aug. 15 meeting and is now soliciting public comment.

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Complex Discovery

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article examines the rise in Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions in August 2024, reaching 218 deals—the highest since November 2023. The surge reflects strong M&A activity and increased legal scrutiny, highlighting critical implications for eDiscovery professionals. As transaction volumes grow, so do the demands for compliance, regulatory reviews, and data management.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tesco was not entitled to terminate some employees’ contracts and offer to rehire them on less favorable terms, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

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Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Nearly every general counsel is budgeting to add generative AI tools to their departments — and they’re all expecting to realize efficiencies by doing so.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cooler weather is aiding the fight against a large Southern California wildfire, one of three large fires in the region. The Bridge Fire exploded in size on Tuesday, forcing evacuations in the communities of Wrightwood and Pinion Hills.

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Practice of Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl shocked fans with the news that he fathered a child outside of his marriage. He married Jordyn Blum 21 years ago, and they have daughters, Violet, Harper, and Ophelia. His Instagram post read that: “I’ve recently become the father of a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage. I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), the international specialist insurer, announced the formation of a new Specialty Reinsurance division to support the company’s growth ambitions in the sector.

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Civil Litigation Brief

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The latest Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide is now available and can be found here. It is dated October 2014 but was published yesterday – well ahead of time. I am simply highlighting two aspects of the Guide.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Carlyle-owned claims management company Sedgwick said on Thursday it had secured an investment from private equity firm Altas Partners via a deal that valued it at $13.2 billion. The valuation is much higher than the $6.

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InHouseBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Legal luminary Sterling Miller strikes again - this time by releasing an article on cool tech for in-house counsel.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Swiss insurer Baloise is considering changes in its board of directors, Chairman Thomas von Planta said on Thursday after the company revealed plans to boost returns to shareholders.

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Legal IT Insider

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Osborne Clarke this week chucked the cat among the Gen AI pigeons by revealing the results of some testing the UK top 20 law firm has done in its own […] The post Legal IT Latest: GPT-4o v Harvey, Jus Mundi raises €20m, ContractPodAi hires a big name SVP of AI, and the latest product news appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Duffy Insurance Agency, based in Lynn, Massachusetts, has acquired The Cowan Insurance Agency of Haverhill, also in Essex County. The Cowan agency, founded in 1938, is a fourth generation family business now led by Stefanie (Cowan) Guillemette.

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Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The widely recognized technique for operational improvements was pioneered by manufacturing companies but its principles can work well for legal teams.

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Manufacturing 59

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft Corp. said it’s building an alternative for cybersecurity companies that now utilize the deepest layer of its operating system after a flawed update from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. triggered a global IT meltdown.

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Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A panel of judges at the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a bankruptcy court ruling that the bank aided and abetted the Ponzi scheme of former businessman Tom Petters.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits.

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

According to the SEC’s complaint, on June 7, 2022, Federico Nannini, of Coral Gables, Florida, was entrusted with material nonpublic information that his firm’s client, MasTec, was interested in acquiring IEA. The next day, Federico Nannini tipped his father, Mauro Nannini, who then purchased 34,500 shares of IEA over the next several weeks for $310,729.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

JM Wilson, headquartered in Portage, Michigan, promoted several team members in its home office. Kristin Bolhuis was promoted to property and casualty manager. She works with carrier underwriters and independent insurance agents in Michigan and Texas.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Key Takeaway: An Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) account is a trust account that sends earned interest to local Bar Associations. Interest funds are used for charitable causes like pro bono legal work. Whether you’re new to managing trust accounts or a seasoned attorney, you’ve likely heard the term “IOLTA” at this point in your career. Most lawyers in the United States are required to use Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) accounts to house and manage client funds.

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Civil Litigation Brief

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The result of clinical negligence cases sometimes rest on the views of expert witnesses. Sometimes it is the evidence of witnesses with different recollections of events. On many occasions it is the two issues combined.

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The SEC has quietly disbanded a group of enforcement lawyers who helped bring litigation fighting misleading environmental, social and governance disclosures for more than three years. The Securities and Exchange Commission shut down its Enforcement Division’s Climate and ESG Task Force within the past few months, an agency spokesperson told Bloomberg Law Thursday.

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Civil Litigation Brief

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We are returning to the judgment of Chief Master Shuman in In IlliquidX Ltd v Altana Wealth Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 2191 (Ch). This time looking at the issues relating to witness statements.

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A U.S. judge has awarded $102 million in legal fees to law firms Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll for their work on a $580 million settlement for investors who accused major banks of conspiring to curb competition in the stock lending market. In an order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in New York called the legal fee amount “fair and reasonable,” amounting to 17.06% of the settlement funds so far in the case.

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Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

SEC Chair Gary Gensler has stepped up enforcement since 2021, targeting investor fraud, cyber-related misconduct and misleading financial reporting.

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged now-defunct digital pharmacy startup Medly Health Inc’s. co-founder and former CEO, Marg Patel, former CFO, Robert Horowitz, and former Head of Rx Operations, Chintankumar Bhatt, with defrauding investors in connection with capital raising efforts that netted the company over $170 million. According to the SEC’s complaint, from at least February 2021 through August 2022, Patel and Horowitz provided financial information to existing and prospec

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Practice of Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When interpreting contractual and statutory language, it helps to understand the ordinary meaning of words. Judges typically turn to standard dictionary definitions when parsing the meaning of ambiguous words and phrases. This has worked well enough. But as extensive as they are, dictionaries are not exhaustive and may not include common phrases. For example, what is the ordinary meaning of a phrase like "physically restrained?

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A federal judge on Thursday told former FTX executive Ryan Salame that he could be hit with sanctions after Salame lied to the judge about prosecutors not making promises to him as part of his plea deal last year, CNBC reported. Ryan Salame pled guilty to campaign finance violations as well as running an unlicensed money transmitting business in September 2023, for which he was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in May.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of documents turned over by Michigan State University reveal nothing new about what the school might have known about years of sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar, the campus doctor who assaulted female athletes, the state …

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