Attorney at Work
JANUARY 7, 2025
Process Improvement Tips | Essential steps to ensure your annual legal fee increases are thoughtful, fair and easy to implement. The post Annual Legal Fee Increases: 5 Ways to Make It Easier appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Law Sites
JANUARY 7, 2025
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E-Discovery LLC
JANUARY 7, 2025
In Howard v. Ashworth , 2024 WL 5264677 (E.D. Wis. Dec. 31, 2024), an inmate sued correctional officers from Waupun Correctional Institution for allegedly intercepting his correspondence based on a retaliatory motive. The court held that a party need not show that litigation was anticipated when the party is actually in litigation. The court allowed the inmate to proceed on certain claims.
Law Sites
JANUARY 7, 2025
Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, and that last August launched a sophisticated AI agent for law capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows, today rolled out Playbooks, a contract-review feature designed for in-house teams working in corporate legal departments.
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
An avalanche killed one skier and injured another after the group they were in triggered the large snowslide while ascending a mountain in western Wyoming.
Law Sites
JANUARY 7, 2025
Housing Court Answers, a nonprofit tenants’ rights organization in New York City, today launched Roxanne, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered tool created to help tenants navigate issues related to housing repairs.
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Legal Dive
JANUARY 7, 2025
In deals with the Federal Trade Commission, two building services companies will no longer stop their employees from going elsewhere. One of the deals isn’t backed by the FTC’s incoming chair, though.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Moody’s Ratings changed the sector outlook for the global property/casualty insurance industry to stable from negative last month, pointing to personal lines price hikes in the U.S. and UK as a reason for the upgrade.
Ethicking
JANUARY 7, 2025
If any of you are in need of 2.5-3 on-demand ethics CLE hours (depending on how your state counts time), or are curious about what happens when people who are not me* try to make ethics CLE fun, Cleveland-based Squire Patton Boggs has created a free long-form ethics CLE musical. (Hey, I run a legal ethics snark blog, and wrote a State Bar ethics article based on an REM earworm , Im not judging.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla vehicles after reports of some crashes linked to its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature.
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RPC Strategies
JANUARY 7, 2025
I hope you enjoy reading this blog post. If you want our team to manage your growth marketing strategies, just click here. by Melissa Rogozinski and Nate Nead A version of this article first appeared in Law Journal Newsletter on January 1, 2025. The digital world is buzzing with claims that SEO is dead, buried by the rise of AI. But the truth is more nuanced.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
According to the MarketScout Market Barometer, the composite rate for U.S. personal lines increased about 5.8% in 2024 the highest yearly jump in a dozen years.
Complex Discovery
JANUARY 7, 2025
Editors Note: The eDiscovery landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by a clear shift toward off-premise, cloud-based solutions. This article, informed by insights from the 2024-2029 eDiscovery Market Size Mashup by ComplexDiscovery O , explores the factors fueling this transition and its implications for legal, technology, and corporate stakeholders.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Reinsurance buyers generally found ample capacity during the January renewals as well as increased reinsurer appetite, which led to risk-adjusted rate reductions and improved terms and conditions for clients that could demonstrate differentiated strategies, reinsurance brokers Aon, Gallagher Re and …
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Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
You still have a large swath of the digital asset space unregulated in the US regulatory system and its important given the adoption weve seen by some traditional financial institutions, the huge demand for these products by both the retail and institutional investors that we fill this gap, Behnam said. He said the CFTC remained well positioned to be a spot regulator for digital commodity assets.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Boosting growth and profitability is a goal for all U.S. insurance agents and brokers, but until recently that has been easier to assert than to achieve consistently.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
A man from the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for his role in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits. Shahriyar Bolandian, 36, was sentenced by United States District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. to 24 months in federal prison. A forfeiture order will be imposed at a later date.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars.
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Complex Discovery
JANUARY 7, 2025
Editor’s Note: The following article examines Apples proposed $95 million settlement addressing privacy violations linked to its Siri voice assistant. This case highlights critical challenges in data protection and transparency, providing cybersecurity professionals with insights into safeguarding sensitive user information and mitigating unintentional breaches.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
AM Best has removed under review with negative implications and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” (Excellent) of Sutton Specialty Insurance Company (SSIC) and Sutton National Insurance Company (SNIC), which …
Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
I just got a press release for a new thriller about the Depository Trust Co., and youd better believe that if you write a thriller about DTC and send me the press release Im going to mention it here. (Its called The Vault, by Stuart Z. Goldstein.) DTC is the clearinghouse that, among other things, owns pretty much all of the stocks and bonds in America: If you buy stock at your brokerage, what you actually get is an entry on the books of your broker saying that you own the stock, and what the br
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Just days after convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was ordered to pay almost $15 million to Nautilus Insurance Co.
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Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
In the case of the sun and the earth and which revolves around which, for example, it may seem to an earthbound observer that the star orbits the planet; a Martian, however, would swiftly ascertain the truth. A trader trying to work out the correct value of the 10-year Treasury can assay the US growth rate, its inflation outlook, the geopolitical outlook and the likely behavior of fellow investors and a host of other factual influences and decide whether to buy or sell at the current price.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries have agreed to purchase London Aviation Underwriters Inc. (LAU), in a stock and cash transaction. Financial details of the deal, which is expected to close early in 2025, were not disclosed.
IP Watchdog
JANUARY 7, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday in a per curiam decision affirmed two Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions for Microsoft, agreeing that the challenged claims of two patents directed to matching tasks to different computer processor types to improve processing efficiency were invalid for obviousness.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S as a disruptive winter storm brought the possibility of the heaviest snowfall in a decade to some areas.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
Trump 2.0 Set to Launch Early in the New Year … One area on which the agency under Gensler focused that is likely to also be a priority under Atkins is with respect to cryptocurrency. A variety of high-profile crypto firms and crypto agencies previously hired Atkinss consulting firm, and Atkins himself is not only well known to the crypto community but he has served, according to the Wall Street Journal (here), as its trusted consigliere.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
China said 32 people have been killed and another 38 were injured by an earthquake that struck its far western region of Tibet. The epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake that hit around 9:05 a.m.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 7, 2025
But his enforcement dissents, which have not been previously reported in detail, and Reuters’ interviews with more than a dozen former SEC officials and academics, provide insight into how deep that skepticism was. They suggest Wall Street is set for a much easier ride after years of aggressive enforcement under Democratic Chair Gary Gensler, whose SEC levied over $20 billion in penalties and other charges.[…] “He put us through our paces,” said former SEC assistant enfor
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Ryan Specialty, a specialty insurance services firm and trading partner for agents and brokers, plans to acquire Nashville-based Velocity Risk Underwriters, with a closing date early this year.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
Local law enforcement officials in Fort Lauderdale are investigating the deaths of two individuals found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue Airways Corp. plane after it arrived at the Florida airport on Monday.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 7, 2025
A winter storm is poised to pummel Texas and the US South later this week, putting the region at risk of blackouts and travel mayhem.
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