Law Sites
JULY 11, 2024
The American Arbitration Association today announced the launch of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable parties with multiple arbitration cases to streamline their case administration. The APIs will allow parties to send and receive documents, file new cases, and track case-related activities.
Attorney at Work
JULY 11, 2024
Streamline your time-entry process and you will stop losing money. Here's how. The post 5 Tips to Make Time Entry Less Painful for Lawyers appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 11, 2024
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal published a Director’s blog post today addressing the Office’s current backlog of patent and trademark applications, which the latest USPTO data shows to be 785,387 unexamined applications/ 25.6 months total pendency for patents and 14.5 months total pendency for trademarks. Vidal said in her blog post that “unpredictable macro effects, including a pandemic that had an outsized impact on our application inventories, have created an ‘i
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Heffernan Insurance Brokers acquired Costello Insurance Associates in Tempe, Arizona. Pat Costello and his team of five employees will continue to service their new and existing customers Costello services clients throughout the U.S.
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
Complex Discovery
JULY 11, 2024
Editor’s Note: Prudential Financial has drastically revised the scope of a recent data breach, with the number of affected customers ballooning from an initial 36,545 to over 2.5 million. This incident underscores the critical importance of robust cybersecurity measures for financial services and has raised significant concerns among cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of floods in the U.S.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks. Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest city are still without power, shutting stores and snarling traffic at non-functioning lights.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The court disrupted regulatory agencies with its major business rulings, although federal courts may need to offer new stability, according to a legal panel.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
A workers’ compensation insurer is entitled to continue to receive reimbursements from the Massachusetts second injury fund even after it stops writing business in the state, the state’s high court has ruled in an opinion reversing itself on the issue.
Legal IT Insider
JULY 11, 2024
BRYTER, the no-code platform for law firms and in-house legal departments, today (11 July) officially launches a new product-suite: AI Agents, which help legal teams to automate repetitive tasks such […] The post BRYTER launches AI Agents with major brand backing appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
North Carolina authorities have charged one woman and are on the lookout for another in connection with a scheme to defraud a State Farm insurance company of more than $195,000.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 11, 2024
In Broom v Aguilar [2024] EWHC 1764 (Ch) HHJ Paul Matthews (sitting as a High Court Judge) decided that a claim form had not been properly served when it was served at a time that the defendant was living abroad.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
New York University has settled a lawsuit filed last November by three Jewish students who said they had been subjected to “pervasive acts of hatred, discrimination, harassment, and intimidation” since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
With federal regulators and states clamping down on the practice, companies might take a hard look at how they’re presenting information on their websites and in their apps.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
A new Vermont-based captive insurer is promising to provide insurance for New York affordable rental housing buildings at a time when advocates say coverage is difficult to afford or obtain. The Milford Street Association Captive Insurance Co.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The retailer retreated from its diversity and climate goals after an “anti-woke” protest on social media — and ignited a backlash.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
An Iowa woman was sentenced on July 2, 2024 after pleading guilty to Tampering With Records (Aggravated Misdemeanor) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
Bill Hwang was found guilty of 10 out of 11 criminal counts, while former CFO Patrick Halligan was found guilty of all three counts he faced, including fraud and racketeering.
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?
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
A hard market combined with underwriting capacity from fronting companies allowed for robust growth in the MGA market in 2023, according to a new Conning strategic study.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The bank has made insufficient progress toward resolving nagging data quality, risk management and internal control issues, the OCC and Federal Reserve said.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
“It’s not like the tulip bubble or the tech bubble,” said Alisa Levin, co-founder of the legal search firm Greene-Levin-Snyder, adding that it could slow or stall but “I don’t think it’s going to burst.” Not long ago, $10 million annually was an astronomical sum for even the highest-profile lateral partners. More recently, $20 million—once “unheard of”—seemed to be the standard of top partner pay at the most elite firms.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Insurers in the United States may take a hit of about $2.7 billion from damage caused by Hurricane Beryl, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Co (KCC) said on Thursday. About 1.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
In short, my tenure as Director has coincided with extreme volatility and investor risk in the crypto markets. This has been vividly demonstrated by the dramatic increase in the number of complaints about crypto that investors submitted to the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (“OIEA”), from 820 in fiscal year 2019, the first year that OIEA’s annual list of Top Ten Categories of Complaints included crypto, to 5,357 in fiscal year 2023.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
SageSure, a managing general agent specializing in catastrophe-exposed markets in the Southeast and other states, along with its affiliated Anchor Re captive reinsurer and SURE reciprocal, announced they have secured a $60 million catastrophe bond, three months after SageSure closed …
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. agreed last month to pay $2.1 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the marketing and printing company violated disclosure and internal accounting control rules stemming from a 2021 cybersecurity breach. The settlement, which comes amid heightened SEC focus on cybersecurity, represents a new—and expansive—take on the accounting control provisions.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
MADISON, Wis.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
A bipartisan group of Senators unveiled a new proposal that would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks. Oregon Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, Michigan Senator Gary Peters, Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley are outlining a new version of a measure dubbed the “ETHICS Act,” Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Authorities in Western states warned of the rising risk of wildfires as hot conditions and low humidity dry out the landscape amid a protracted heat wave that is expected to bake much of the U.S. again Thursday.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
A U.S. appeals court has just deepened a split among the federal circuits on the proper test for asset freezes in cases brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the SEC cannot sidestep the stringent, four-part test for obtaining a preliminary injunction when it seeks to freeze the assets of a defendant in an enforcement action.
Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas
Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.
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