Law Sites

JUNE 5, 2025

In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity Pro subscribers will get access to exclusive offers from LegalZoom, including discounts on legal services and products tailored for individuals and small businesses.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 5, 2025

Gene Commander | Mergers allow future-focused midmarket and smaller law firms to assemble a dynamic mix of highly skilled talent. The post Talent-Driven Law Firm Mergers:A Smart Growth Strategy for Firms of All Sizes appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Microsoft dominates small law tech, but it’s fumbling the AI agent transition. Google sees the opening. The Unexpected Opening In most small law offices, youll find a familiar tech stack: Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams. Microsoft is the default productivity suite for the legal world. It has been for decades.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity to support 300,000 homes. But securing that power isn’t as simple as plugging into the grid.

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Law Sites

JUNE 5, 2025

A new benchmarking study reveals that artificial intelligence adoption in corporate legal departments is gaining momentum, with 38% of surveyed teams already using AI tools and another 50% actively exploring implementation. However, significant barriers around trust, data privacy, and measurement persist as the legal profession navigates this technological shift.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

A cargo ship that was abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after catching fire Tuesday was carrying cars from several Chinese automakers, according to people familiar with the matter.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Longtime Alabama insurance agent and former congressional candidate Ken McFeeters announced he is running for governor of Alabama next year, casting himself as a political outsider and accusing his opponent U.S. Sen.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2025

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC dismissing Dolby Labs’ appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for lack of an injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing. In so ruling, the Federal Circuit held that, although patent owners might have the right to dispute unnamed real parties in interest (RPIs) during inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, the America Invents Act (A

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is “fully staffed” with weather forecasters and scientists after concerns were raised about some offices losing 24-hour staffing ahead of hurricane season.

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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

JUNE 5, 2025

Winston Churchill’s parliamentary talks and his speeches, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, are still considered masterful today. He was a gifted orator whose speeches inspired the United Kingdom to continue to resist the German war conduct against London and the UK. What is unusual about his reputation as a great speaker is that he was not a natural orator at all.

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JUNE 5, 2025

A senior executive at the UK’s National Wealth Fund has criticized the country’s banks and money managers for what he characterized as their failure to embrace the risk levels needed to drive the low-carbon transition.

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Practice of Law

JUNE 5, 2025

He was known for being the lawyer who took on some of the largest companies in the country to fight for the rights of the little guy. With his sentence of 87 months for wire fraud on June 3, 2025, the now-disbarred Tom Girardi may only have prison yard disputes to try to litigate in his future. A sentence of over seven years for an 86-year-old man might seem excessive to some, but it pales when compared to the scope of Girardi's perfidy.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

Former customers of the late Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff will recoup $498.3 million under a settlement on Wednesday with the liquidators of two Luxembourg funds, boosting their recovery to about $15.26 billion.

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Practice of Law

JUNE 5, 2025

Alabama pays millions to private attorneys to defend them from some of their alleged bad deeds—but now, that defense has gone spectacularly wrong. A federal judge is considering sanctions against the law firm representing Alabama after one of its attorneys used AI to cut corners in court. Crises Create Contracts In 2018, Alabama's men's prisons were cited for having the nation's highest homicide rate.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

China is considering imposing safety requirements for driving assistance systems, as more of the country’s automakers offer such features on cars to attract buyers.

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Practice of Law

JUNE 5, 2025

In the introduction to his opinion for the 10-7 full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on a book censorship case, Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan added a few attempts at humor. Mocking some of the arguments made in Little v. Llano County as "unusually overcaffeinated," he chided the plaintiffs for thinking "Llano County had planned to stage a book burning in front of the library.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier than publicly known.

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The Marshall Project

JUNE 5, 2025

A violence prevention program is pairing cognitive behavioral therapy with other support to keep high-risk teens out of jail.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager.

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Practice of Law

JUNE 5, 2025

When it comes to the practice of yoga, there are a bevy of permutations. The combination of exercising and meditation continues to grow in popularity. Traditional styles such as Hatha and Vinyasa have been joined by Bikram (think really hot), prenatal (think really pregnant), and offshoots that involve beer bottles or baby goats. Having yoga classes on the beach or an ocean-adjacent park sounds like a perfect location for reflective stretching.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

No one was checking IDs or for weapons before a party boat cruise that ended with a shooting that hurt 11 people in South Carolina over Memorial Day weekend, a lawyer for one of the victims said.

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Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 5, 2025

This series is giving rise to more cases than I initially thought.  Here we look at an example of a claimant wishing to pursue a specific line of argument but having to accept that it was not pleaded and that.

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

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

A Republican attempt to block states from enforcing new artificial intelligence rules over the next decade has drawn growing bipartisan objections, exposing tension in Washington over allowing for more unchecked AI development.

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Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 5, 2025

The webinar on Part 36 that I broadcast earlier this week is now available on YouTube and can be found here. Links to previous webinars on Part 36 can be found below. MATTERS COVERED IN THE 2025 WEBINAR This.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp Suite.

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Complex Discovery

JUNE 5, 2025

Editor’s Note: The European Unions evolving cybersecurity framework is shaping the terrain for risk management, regulatory compliance, and digital resilience. ENISAs updated NCSS Interactive Map offers a powerful lens into how national strategies are operationalized across the EUessential intelligence for professionals managing cross-border data, breach response, and discovery obligations.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

Brennan & Co. insurance agency, based in Savannah, Georgia, is now part of Patriot Growth Services, a brokerage and insurance services firm that has grown rapidly since its founding in 2019.

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Securities Docket

JUNE 5, 2025

… As of June 1, the CFTC is down to two membersone Republican and one Democrat. For those who love gridlock, this will be great. For the rest of us who (knowingly or not) benefit from the efficient operation of CFTC-regulated markets, its terrible. […] It gets worse. Both sitting commissioners have announced their resignations. And one of them, Kristin Johnson, is already working overtimeher appointment expired months ago.

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Insurance Journal

JUNE 5, 2025

OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday.

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Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 5, 2025

There have been a large number of cases where the courts have been critical of attempt to “re-open” judgments at the stage where the draft judgment is circulated. We see another example here. The judge reviewed the cases on this.

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