Law Sites
JANUARY 9, 2025
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IP Watchdog
JANUARY 9, 2025
The International Trademark Association (INTA) announced today that it has filed an amicus brief in a referral to the Grand Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that asks for clarification on registering human faces as trademarks. INTA urged the Grand Board to confirm that signs consisting of photorealistic facial images of people, including famous ones, are not per se excluded from trademark protection.
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E-Discovery LLC
JANUARY 9, 2025
In Fond-du-Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa v. Cummins , 2025 WL 26046 (Jan. 3, 2025), the court addressed privilege among two jointly related companies. Plaintiff, the Band, sought judicial review of a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and a mining company, PolyMet. PolyMet sought review of the U.S. Magistrate Judges decision that it failed to meet the burden of showing that approximately 500 documents were privileged.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The conflagrations tearing across Los Angeles are on track to be among the most expensive wildfire disasters in U.S. history, draining insurance coffers and threatening California’s massive state-sponsored insurance program.
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Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
A Delaware court approved the deal to settle a complaint accusing the automaker’s directors of overpaying themselves for several years.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A major grower said this week it is abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida’s signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases. Alico Inc.
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Insurers saw the third most expensive year for natural catastrophe losses in 2024 reaching a total of US$140 billion as climate change “is showing its claws,” according to Munich Re.
Civil Litigation Brief
JANUARY 9, 2025
Today we are revisiting anarticle by Master David Cook Advocacy before the QB Masters Some Dos and Donts * and it reminded me why I wrote the original series. These are invaluable sources of advice and information. Appearing before.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Flooding poses the greatest threat to supply chains this year, as warm ocean temperatures fuel more frequent and disruptive storms, including powerful hurricanes, according to a report.
Complex Discovery
JANUARY 9, 2025
Editors Note: This article offers a concise overview of the eDiscovery industrys mergers, acquisitions, and investments from 2001 through 2024. With a focus on the transformative activity of 2024, it examines key trends, historical milestones, and the relationship between M&A activity and market growth. The listing of events in this report is based on publicly available information, and while it may not capture every transaction, it is representative of the majority of significant activities
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The commercial property market is showing signs of stabilization, and buyers with favorable risk profiles will see rate decreases or low-single-digit increases this year, according to USI Insurance Services’ 2025 Commercial Property & Casualty Market Outlook.
Ball in Your Court
JANUARY 9, 2025
A practical guide for trial lawyers who want to try out AI LLMs (ChatGPT-4) in their practice and including simple-to-follow instructions and prompt examples.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov.
Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
Document management systems are often unwieldy, but there are ways to securely separate what’s important from what’s not — even as attorneys double down on remote work.
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
JANUARY 9, 2025
American International Group (AIG) said Christopher Flatt, currently head of AIG North America alternative channels, has been named global chief underwriting officer, effective immediately.
Destination Articles Blog
JANUARY 9, 2025
Attending legal conferences, seminars, and workshops is often part of your professional routine as a lawyer. These events help you stay updated on legal trends and earn the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits required to maintain your license. The bonus? Many of these events require travel, so you can make the most of your expenses by earning travel rewards.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence and so on researchers in the field of neuroergonomics are using technology to improve how …
Legal Dive
JANUARY 9, 2025
The suit, filed by workers at Hyatt Regency Long Beach, was the first of its kind under one of several city-level regulations intended to improve working conditions for hotel housekeepers.
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), headquartered in Philadelphia, named Steve Firko as executive vice president and chief operating officer overseeing all front-line customer-focused operating departments, including underwriting, field operations, claims, loss control, marketing, customer service, and operations.
Practice Panther
JANUARY 9, 2025
The cost of legal practice management software depends on its functions, features, and the number of users you plan to have. But as software has become more powerful and affordable to produce, it has also become more accessible to law firms of all sizes even solo practitioners. Pricing will vary depending on the vendor, of course, but so does the structure of said pricing.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently signed legislation increasing the minimum coverage limits of auto insurance for some mandatory coverages.
Destination Articles Blog
JANUARY 9, 2025
Attending legal conferences, seminars, and workshops is often part of your professional routine as a lawyer. These events help you stay updated on legal trends and earn the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits required to maintain your license. The bonus? Many of these events require travel, so you can make the most of your expenses by earning travel rewards.
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Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited Safeway $182,000 in proposed penalties for safety violations that reportedly put roughly 1,700 workers at risk of serious injuries at the company’s warehouse in Tracy, their largest facility in the nation.
Civil Litigation Brief
JANUARY 9, 2025
In Smith v McAlpine [2024] EWHC 3408 (KB) Senior Master Cook varied an order for costs that had been made after an application had been considered on the papers. After considering further submissions he found that his original order, that.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 9, 2025
Frantz’s move to DLA Piper’s New York office marks at least the fifth Big Law hire of a senior in-house lawyer this week, following moves to Husch Blackwell, Squire Patton Boggs, Sheppard Mullin, and Davis Wright Tremaine.[…] Macrae recruiter Jon Truster said he’s seeing senior in-house attorneys join Big Law firms at a higher rate as the compensation rift between Big Law and in-house widens.
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.
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
Apple clarified on Wednesday that it has never sold the data collected by its Siri voice assistant or used it to create marketing profiles, just days after settling a case in which it faced such accusations.
Securities Docket
JANUARY 9, 2025
Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwons criminal fraud trial in the U.S. has been tentatively scheduled for next January, allowing prosecutors and Kwons defense attorneys adequate time to review the massive six-terabyte trove of data expected to be produced during the discovery process. During an initial hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, lead prosecutor Jared Lenow told the court that the government expected to face additional delays due to challenges accessing encrypted information a
Insurance Journal
JANUARY 9, 2025
General agency Warner Pacific said it has acquired five general agencies from broker and fintech specialist, Acrisure, effective Dec. 1 2024. Financial terms were not disclosed. Westlake Village, California-based Warner Pacific’s Jan.
Civil Litigation Brief
JANUARY 9, 2025
An updated set of Additional Tables have been added to The Ogden Tables today to include the 0.5% rate that came into force in January. THE UPDATES The updates can be found on this link.
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