Attorney at Work

JANUARY 2, 2025

Law firms face increasing pressure to justify their fees as more price-sensitive clients turn to ALSPs or expand their in-house legal teams. Instead of engaging in a price war, the author of LinkedIn for the Savvy Executive: Promote Your Brand with Authenticity, Tact, and Power, says investing in law firm branding is a wiser strategy. Why […] The post Branding to Combat Pricing Pressure: Why Lowering Fees Isnt the Answer for Law Firms appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 2, 2025

Spivey v. BP Exploration & Production, Inc., 2024 WL 5246598 (E.D. La. Dec. 30, 2024), addressed the question of whether every document hit by a search term must be produced. In Spivey , Plaintiff Spivey and American Petroleum Institute (API) agreed to search terms to be used by the producing non-party, API. After the agreed search terms were run, API withheld some of the documents as non-responsive.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Verisk said on Thursday it will be the first modeler to request a review of its wildfire catastrophe model under a reform pushed by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara.

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Legal Dive

JANUARY 2, 2025

The bank cautioned in an October filing that it was in talks with regulators over issues with its Bank Secrecy Act compliance programs.

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Litigation

Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Leaders from a US dockworkers’ union and the group that represents their employers are set to resume contract talks on Jan. 7 as the threat of a strike looms, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

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Securities Docket

JANUARY 2, 2025

How much should a director at a publicly traded company get paid? Keep in mind that this is very much a part-time job, since the overwhelming majority of directors have full-time (and often very responsible jobs) doing other things, like, say running their own publicly traded company. I thought about this because late on the Friday before many people disappeared, Microstrategy filed this 8-K announcing three new directors, all of whom already appear to have very full-time jobs, among them servin

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Practice Panther

JANUARY 2, 2025

Legal case management software has become a vital tool for firms of all sizes and fields of practice. A poll by Statista found that following 2020, the vast majority of firms saw a moderate to high positive impact on their operations, primarily with their document management (83%), finance management (76%), and time tracking (74%). Cloud-based technology has expanded how software can support attorney work and legal case management software is the product of that expansion.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

A Pennsylvania battery firm has been found responsible for paying $22.25 million in backpay to workers to cover the actual time they spent changing and showering for their jobs working with hazardous materials.

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Legal Dive

JANUARY 2, 2025

The agency’s call for the tech giant to divest Chrome because of its search dominance goes beyond the competition issues that were raised in the high-profile monopoly case, the company says.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

A U.S. government fund to compensate people swindled by Bernard Madoff announced its tenth and final distribution on Monday, saying it will have paid out $4.3 billion to 40,930 of the late Ponzi schemer’s victims. Richard Breeden, the former U.S.

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

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Litigation

Legal Dive

JANUARY 2, 2025

Well-executed investigations can protect the entity involved as well as the individuals affected by its results, writes Joycelyn Stevenson, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Nexus Underwriting, a Brown & Brown group business, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Arma Fusion Ltd., the parent company of Arma Underwriting Ltd.

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Practice Panther

JANUARY 2, 2025

Lawyers have been creating blogs since the early days of the internet, and its easy to understand the appeal. Writing has always been central to the legal profession, and blogs offer an opportunity to connect with clients while showcasing expertise in a more accessible format. That said, for attorneys who are used to drafting legal briefs rather than casual blog posts, starting a blog might seem daunting.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

SageSure closed the acquisition of GeoVera Advantage Insurance Services LLC in Fairfield, California. The entity will now function as a newly formed managing general agent and includes the residential earthquake risk underwriting franchise.

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Litigation

Your Trial Message

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Heres a scenario we often see when watching deliberations in a mock trial: The subject of the defendants alternate damages number comes up, and jurors see it as a weakness. Even when the defense attorney has supplied all of the responsible caveats (e.g.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Investment bank Morgan Stanley said on Thursday it had decided to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, becoming the latest U.S. lender to quit the sector’s top global climate coalition.

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Civil Litigation Brief

JANUARY 2, 2025

The question of when a hearing has been adjourned and when time starts running for applying to the trial judge for permission to appeal was considered by Mr Justice Freedman inMex Group Worldwide Limited v Stewart Owen Ford & Ors[2024].

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

LULING, La. (AP) The crew of a tugboat was quickly rescued when their vessel sank into the Mississippi River following a collision with a tanker ship in Louisiana. The U.S.

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Speaker: Kaitlyn "The Persnickety Paralegal" Story

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Civil Litigation Brief

JANUARY 2, 2025

I am speaking about costs for housing lawyers on the 10th January 2025 in a webinar arranged by Steve Cornforth. Booking details can be found by emailing Steve on stevecornforthconsultancy@gmail.com THE WEBINAR This webinar looks at how housing.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Risk & Insurance Management Society today announced that effective Jan. 1 Kristen Peed will serve as president for 2025 the organization’s 75th anniversary year.

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Securities Docket

JANUARY 2, 2025

Five trends emerged in 2024 that are likely to continue: conservative influencer Robby Starbuck, emboldened by success, expects to target more companies to dismantle their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; companies have increasingly been changing the ways they talk about DEI to avoid political conflict; conservative forces in Washington have set their sights on corporate and government DEI programs; legal groups challenging diversity programs will persist; and more companies are expe

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the computers of senior US Treasury Department leaders as part of a recent breach of the agency, according to a US official and another person familiar with the matter.

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Litigation

Civil Litigation Brief

JANUARY 2, 2025

I am grateful to Navid Hakimmaani, Consultant Solicitor at Collins Benson Goldhill LLP, for sending me a copy of the judgment of HHJ Mark Gargan in Smith -v- AXA Insurance UK PlC & Spectra Drive Limited (24th December 2024), a.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

The world’s biggest climate coalition for financial firms is making adjustments after several high-profile banks, insurers and asset managers opted out.

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Securities Docket

JANUARY 2, 2025

Paul Bilzerian has been on the run from the Securities and Exchange Commission for so long that he now owes the agency $180 million with interestalmost three times what a court initially ordered him to pay. For 31 years, the agency has tried and failed to collect a $62 million judgment against the former corporate raider for securities fraud. To avoid paying the penalty, Bilzerian pleaded poverty and twice declared bankruptcy.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Last year, there were 5,283 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States, a 3.7% decrease from 5,486 in 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The fatal work injury rate was 3.

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Complex Discovery

JANUARY 2, 2025

Editor’s Note: The IRSs final regulations targeting DeFi participants and the concurrent legal challenges highlight the increasingly complex intersection of innovation, regulation, and legal scrutiny in the digital finance sector. This notable case has significant implications for decentralized finance, fintech operations, and regulatory policy in the U.S., sparking vital discussions about privacy, constitutional rights, and economic competitiveness.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) announced the acquisition of Acumen Solutions Group LLC, a Melville, New York-based insurance agency. Founded in 2012, Acumen provides personal insurance and customized commercial insurance programs, with specialties in the construction, real estate, and aviation industries.

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Securities Docket

JANUARY 2, 2025

Now that the money has been spent and the politicians elected, crypto executives are turning their attention to getting the actions they want in place. The industry has paid a lot of people a lot of money and is going to expect to see the receipts, says Hilary Allen, professor at the American University Washington College of Law. Top of the wish list is a friendlier SEC.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Waves of intense cold will send temperatures plunging as much as 20F (11C) below normal across the central and eastern U.S. this month, triggering ice storms that could down power lines and snarl travel from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic.

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Securities Docket

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Fifth Circuit wont miss out on all major litigation during the next four years, even as the conservative appeals court is expected to lose its status as a go-to spot to challenge federal policies during Donald Trumps upcoming presidential term. The New Orleans-based appeals court heard major federal challenges during the first Trump administration.

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Litigation 52

Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as “spring water.

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