Lawmatics
JUNE 18, 2025
As law firms grow, so do the complexities of managing both new leads and active cases. That’s why firms turn to purpose-built software to support each phase of the client journey, from intake to active cases and beyond. But having the right tools isn’t enough. Growth doesn’t come from stacking tools; it comes from connecting them in ways that simplify work and strengthen the client experience.
Law Sites
JUNE 18, 2025
Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.
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E-Discovery LLC
JUNE 18, 2025
Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(g) is called the “stop and think” rule. In Grullon v. Lewis , 2025 WL 1693425 (S.D.N.Y. Jun. 17, 2025), the court found a violation of that rule. The court held that: To satisfy the requirements of Rule 26(g)(1) and comply with counsel’s ethical obligations as an officer of the Court, counsel must be actively involved in searching and producing discovery to Plaintiff.
Law Sites
JUNE 18, 2025
When Chris Cartrett was named CEO of legal technology company Aderant in 2022, he did so with the mission of aggressively advancing a cloud-first strategy throughout the company’s suite of business and financial software for law firms.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
A coalition of pension funds and insurance companies holding a combined $9.5 trillion of assets has called on investors to ensure their portfolios aren’t supporting or enabling deforestation.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 18, 2025
Ivy Grey | A negative draft helps clarify your thinking before the real writing begins. Use GenAI to figure out what you don't want. The post What Comes Before the Zero Draft? Exploring the Negative Draft appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Law Sites
JUNE 18, 2025
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis’ gen AI technology, primary law content, and Shepard’s Citations within the Harvey platform and jointly develop advanced legal workflows.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
Liberty Mutual Insurance Appoints Bhatnagar President, Major Accounts, GRS North America; Fallon Announces Retirement Liberty Mutual Insurance, headquartered in Boston, named Neal Bhatnagar president, major accounts, of Global Risk Solutions (GRS) North America, effective July 7.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 18, 2025
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today holding that it does not have jurisdiction to review appeals outside of final decisions on the merits from the International Trade Commission (ITC) that affect the entry of articles. Realtek appealed the ITC's denial of its motion for sanctions against Future Link, arguing that both the ITC ALJ and the Commission itself violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by rejecting the sanctions request.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the insurance industry.
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IP Watchdog
JUNE 18, 2025
While the Alice v. CLS Bank decision has been with us for over 10 years, subject matter eligibility case law still seems to defy predictability. The recent Contour IP Holding case gives us a new data point and another curve on the road. In Contour IP Holding, a patented video streaming technology was initially struck down in the district courts as ineligible, only to be revived by the Federal Circuit in a rare 101 reversal.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near predominantly Black communities in Memphis.
Complex Discovery
JUNE 18, 2025
Editor’s Note: As Generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in enterprise systems and security workflows, it is no longer just a technological innovation—it’s a cybersecurity paradox. This article draws on the European Commission’s Generative AI Outlook Report – Exploring the Intersection of Technology, Society, and Policy (JRC142598) to examine how GenAI is reshaping both the tools of defense and the tactics of attackers.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
Descartes Underwriting, the Paris-based parametric insurer for climate and emerging risks, announced a strategic investment by Battery Ventures, a technology-focused investment firm. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
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?
IP Watchdog
JUNE 18, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today held a “USPTO Hour” webinar in which it shared the results thus far of its 2022 pilot program, the “Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response (DSMER) Pilot.” The DSMER Pilot was announced in January 2022 in response to a 2021 letter sent to the Office by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) asking then-interim Director Drew Hirshfeld to “initiate a pilot program directing examiners to apply a sequenced approach to patent examinat
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
Finland’s Sampo Oyj appointed Morten Thorsrud to succeed retiring Torbjorn Magnusson as chief executive officer, in a sign of continuity at the helm of the property and casualty insurer.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
What is the appropriate response of the court if a schedule of costs is served late? This is an issue considered in a recent High Court judgment. It provides a good opportunity to review the rules, the guidance, and previous.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court established rules of the road on Wednesday to determine when lawsuits challenging actions by the U.S.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
The courts encourages the use of jointly instructed experts However this does not mean that the case, or even key issues in the case, are necessarily determined by those experts. Here we have a case where the judge held that.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
An Oklahoma man faces felony charges for illegally growing marijuana, Attorney General Genter Drummond’s office announced. Hui Tang, 51, of Kingfisher, was arrested in the wake of a May 29 raid by The Attorney General Office’s Organized Crime Task Force.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
Is a person attending a public hearing entitled to sight of the skeleton arguments being used? Is disclosure confined to the press? What should happen if the skeleton refers to matters that fall foul of reporting restrictions? These are important.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
Waymo will expand into more areas of the San Francisco peninsula and parts of Silicon Valley, as the sole commercial robotaxi operator in the U.S. seeks to scale up operations, the Alphabet unit said on Tuesday.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
This is a case of many layers. It relates to an initial application to restrain the presentation of a winding up petition. The respondent asserted that they did not have no notice of the application and sought to set the.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
UBS Group AG said that information about the company had been stolen in a cyber attack on one of its suppliers, following a report a Swiss newspaper that data on more than 130,000 employees had been subject to a hack.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
There have been some strong judicial criticisms recorded on this site over the years. I cannot recall much stronger than this case where the judge stated that "the court's conscience was shocked" at the conduct of the claimant, both in.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
King Risk Partners, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the U.S., has acquired Nobles Insurance Agency in North Carolina, King Risk announced this week.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
It is eight days since CLB became a subscription site. I’m glad to say that the numbers visiting the site have not gone down and the membership system is working well. There are a number of common questions I am.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
In any other year, May 14 may well have been an energy disaster in Texas. Temperatures climbed to seasonal levels not seen in over a century: 92F in Dallas, 95F in Houston and 104F in Laredo.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 18, 2025
We are looking at a short postscript to the case examined in the previous post. The judge made observations that were critical of a witness who had made a statement in support of an injunction. The claimant asked for the.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 18, 2025
Ron Perelman told a judge that five of his paintings totaling over $400 million in value lost their luster from a fire in his Hamptons home, at the trial of his lawsuit seeking to force his insurers to cover the …
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