Complex Discovery
JULY 22, 2025
Editor’s Note: A sophisticated exploit targeting Microsoft SharePoint has cast a stark light on the risks tied to on-premise collaboration platforms. As organizations increasingly rely on SharePoint for internal documentation and workflows, the emergence of the CVE-2025-53770 vulnerability—exploited through the ToolShell framework—demands urgent attention.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Hackers exploited a security flaw in common Microsoft Corp. software to breach governments, businesses and other organizations across the globe and steal sensitive information, according to officials and cybersecurity researchers.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 22, 2025
Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Monday, July 21, introduced the AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act, which would chiefly bar artificial intelligence (AI) companies from using copyrighted works to train their generative AI tools without authors’ permission. The bill was announced less than a week after Hawley held a hearing of the U.S.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Britain plans to ban public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure, including the state-run health service, local councils and schools, from paying ransom demands to cyber criminals, it said on Tuesday.
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Attorney at Work
JULY 22, 2025
Brooke Lively says that with clear, measurable requirements, you can choose new partners wisely and with less fear. Here are three things that make a good partner. The post The Path to Partnership: Embracing the “P” Word Is the Key to Law Firm Growth appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
The United Nations’ highest court will deliver an opinion on Wednesday that is likely to determine the course of future climate action across the world.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Chubb followed up a challenging first quarter due to the California wildfires with second quarter net income of nearly $3 billion, up about 33% compared to the same quarter a year ago.
IP Watchdog
JULY 22, 2025
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in IGT v. Zynga Inc. affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) final written decision invalidating IGT’s patent claims to secured networks in gaming environments. The Federal Circuit found interference estoppel arguments raised by IGT to be directed to the PTAB’s unreviewable institution decision, and further held that the PTAB’s estoppel determination involved no “shenanigans” that could make the
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Major tech firms should commit to fully powering data centers with renewable energy by 2030, said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
Securities Docket
JULY 22, 2025
The main reason why Bitcoin is still a “thing” has little to do with payments. What’s pushed it to new stratospheric highs is its embrace by mainstream finance as a supercharged alternative to stocks, bonds, real estate and gold. A growing list of “Bitcoin millionaires” has made others hungry for some of the action, putting investment advisers under pressure to offer their clients some exposure to the digital token.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
The independent agency channel placed 61.5% of all property/casualty insurance written in the U.S. in 2024, a slight decline from 2023 where independent agents placed 62.2% of property/casualty lines nationwide.
IP Watchdog
JULY 22, 2025
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we explore the age-old question about whether it is best to keep an innovation as a trade secret or if it makes sense to seek patent protection. And while this question is not new, it is a question that has been getting more attention in recent years as patents in the United States become weaker, which makes trade secrets increasingly look like a viable alternative for a host of different innovations in a variety of technology fields.
Securities Docket
JULY 22, 2025
House Republicans have threatened to hold up funding for the US accounting standard setter over expanded income tax disclosures set to hit to corporate financial statements early next year. A spending proposal released Sunday by the House Appropriations Committee would bar the SEC from approving the annual budget for the Financial Accounting Standards Board unless it withdraws requirements that companies share more details about their tax obligations.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Bleach maker Clorox said Tuesday it has sued information technology provider Cognizant over a devastating 2023 cyberattack, alleging that the hackers pulled off the intrusion simply by asking the tech company’s staff for employees’ passwords.
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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?
Securities Docket
JULY 22, 2025
The SEC is denying a record percentage of whistleblower claims, including two in orders that sharply rebuked a previous award to billionaire activist investor Carson Block—signs the agency is enforcing rules and scrutinizing claims more strictly than in past years. The commission, now with a Republican majority, denied awards in 31 consecutive orders issued between April 21 and July 15 – covering at least 55 different tipsters, Bloomberg Law found in a review of all 65 final orders issued this y
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
British business leaders are putting a brake on their plans to combat climate change and do not believe the government’s approach to net zero is compatible with growth, a survey of 1,000 executives showed on Tuesday.
Securities Docket
JULY 22, 2025
Citadel Securities wants the US Securities and Exchange Commission to proceed more slowly on allowing “tokenized” securities to take off. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has spoken recently about streamlining traditional securities rules to help companies offer tokenized securities. The result could be investor confusion and an uneven playing field for exchanges and publicly traded companies, Citadel Securities said in a comment letter sent Monday to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force. […] “Tokenized se
Practice of Law
JULY 22, 2025
The gamers who are plaintiffs in a class-action suit against Sony might now be feeling similar to when they almost landed the killing blow on one of Elden Ring's notorious bosses before dying. Sure, they can try again, but they were so close. A U.S. District Court judge denied approval of a preliminary settlement between Sony and PlayStation 5 owners.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
The Texas Senate is doubling down with its attempt to ban hemp-derived THC, setting up another showdown with the House, where lawmakers are more amenable to regulating the substance than eliminating it from recreational use. Senate Bill 5 by Sen.
E-Discovery LLC
JULY 22, 2025
The Judges and Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland filed a “Motion to Dismiss & Opposing Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction” in USA v. Russell, et al., No. 1:25-cv-2029 (D. Md. Jul. 21, 2025). This is a lawsuit against all of the Judges of the District of Maryland, the Court itself, and the Clerk of the Court, arising out of a standing order of the Court that briefly stays certain habeas corpus petitions.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
A climate change case against Italian energy group Eni can continue, the country’s top appeals court has ruled, in a jurisdiction case that had been raised by environmental groups Greenpeace Italia and ReCommon.
Expert Witness Blog
JULY 22, 2025
In the case of R.M. Palmer Co. Explosion , No. 2023-12345 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 10, 2024), the testimony of a Furnaces Expert Witness was pivotal in determining the causes of a fatal explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, resulting in the deaths of seven workers and extensive property damage. Background of the Case In March 2023, an explosion occurred at the R.M.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Louisiana last week canceled a $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline, funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement, scrapping what conservationists called an urgent response to climate change but Gov.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 22, 2025
We can wager a bet (for charity of course) that 99.9% of litigators and 100% of litigants who read a judgment think – who paid the costs? The aim of this series, started in July 2022, was to enable practitioners.
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch’s firm Autonomy Corp.
Practice of Law
JULY 22, 2025
Once upon a time, not that long ago, e-cigs were marketed as a safer alternative to smoking. But research since then has raised concerns about the health risks of vaping, and that research is still a work in progress. Federal agencies have been cracking down on companies that make vapes, and how they’re marketed, to combat what’s seen as a vaping epidemic.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
The leader of W.R. Berkley Corp. has seen it before—some version of the MGA movie in which delegated underwriting authority is given to market participants whose ambitions aren’t always aligned with capacity providers. President and Chief Executives Officer W.
Securities Docket
JULY 22, 2025
A former senior banking supervisor and examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond agreed to pay over half a million dollars in earnings from trades on nonpublic information about Capital One Financial Corp. and New York Community Bancorp Inc., ending an SEC enforcement suit with a consent judgment. Robert Brian Thompson violated prohibitions around bank securities trading, using information about the banks he supervised to strategically buy and sell shares through a personal brokerage acc
Insurance Journal
JULY 22, 2025
Heffernan Insurance Brokers has acquired Pac Global Insurance Brokerage and formally added marine cargo expertise to its suite of services. Located in El Segundo, California, Pac Global joined as Heffernan’s marine cargo specialty practice on April 1.
The Marshall Project
JULY 22, 2025
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