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Federal Court Dismisses ROSS Intelligence’s Remaining Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters

Law Sites

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.

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To Master New Legal Technology, Adjust Your Training Methods to Different Learning Styles

Attorney at Work

Here’s a quick guide to four core learning styles and how you can apply them to better master legal tech. The post To Master New Legal Technology, Adjust Your Training Methods to Different Learning Styles appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Here’s the Video of Our Legaltech Week Panel Recorded Live Friday at RelativityFest in Chicago

Law Sites

Several of our regular Legaltech Week panelists were in Chicago for RelativityFest last week, so we took the opportunity to get together and broadcast our show live from the same room (instead of Zoom squares). If you missed it Friday, here’s the video recording.

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Florida’s Heritage Stock Price Drops After ’60 Minutes’ Report on Adjusters

Insurance Journal

Just as Florida property insurers face another round of storm claims, CBS News has raised questions about alleged insurer fraud stemming from claims incurred in the last major storm – Hurricane Ian, which hit much of southwest Florida two years …

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Exclusive: Novaplex launches Compare to complete missing piece of document drafting suite

Legal IT Insider

Independent UK document production provider Novaplex is bringing new comparison software to market following two years of development and collaboration with ten early adopter law firms. Founded in 2008, Novaplex […] The post Exclusive: Novaplex launches Compare to complete missing piece of document drafting suite appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Insured Losses Top $5B With Heavy Flooding But Few Covered by Flood Insurance

Insurance Journal

Estimates of insured losses from Hurricane Helene continue to range around $5 billion, not including flood insurance losses, as the death toll in the Southeast continued to rise, approaching 100 by Monday morning.

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USPTO Issues Final Rule on Director Review Process, Scraps After Final Consideration Pilot

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized its rule formalizing the interim Director Review process the Office has been following for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions under the America Invents Act (AIA) since the Supreme Court’s Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew decision. In July 2021, the USPTO announced that it would be implementing an interim rule at the agency in response to the late June 2021 decision in Arthrex v.

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How to Choose a Law Firm Name

Practice Panther

Whether you’re opening a new law firm or looking to refresh your current branding, it’s important to choose a name that your audience will identify with. This name will last with your firm for a lifetime and will have an impact on everyone at the firm. It will impact your firm’s marketing , reputation, and lead generation. If you’re feeling the pressure, take a deep breath.

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Thieves Hunting for Copper Are Vandalizing American EV Chargers

Insurance Journal

Rick Wilmer spends most of his work days at the office. But every so often, the chief executive officer of ChargePoint Holdings Inc.

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OpenAI’s For-Profit Shift: Restructuring and Executive Movements Reshape AI Landscape

Complex Discovery

Editor’s Note: OpenAI’s restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation marks a critical juncture for the company and its future in artificial intelligence. Initially founded as a nonprofit to ensure AI benefits humanity, OpenAI now shifts towards a model that balances profitability with societal impact. This move, sparked by over $13 billion in investments and internal leadership transitions, mirrors the strategies of competitors like Anthropic and xAI.

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4.2 Magnitude Earthquake Hit California South of San Francisco

Insurance Journal

An earthquake registering magnitude 4.2 shook part of central California early Sunday, the United States Geological Survey confirmed. The earthquake was detected at 2:47 a.m. local time about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) northwest of Aromas with a depth of 7.

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Is it Time to Abolish the Federal Circuit? | IPWatchdog Unleashed

IP Watchdog

Over the last six months, only 6.3% of Federal Circuit actions have been precedential patent decisions. If so little of what the Federal Circuit is doing relates to patents, why do we need or want a “patent court”? Meanwhile, what decisions the Federal Circuit does issue are panel dependent and show not a care in the world about the court’s original mandate, which was to create a unified national patent law and recognize that at least some patents have to be valid and enforced.

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Acquisition of UK’s Specialist Risk Group Completed by Warburg Pincus and Temasek

Insurance Journal

Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based specialist insurance intermediary, announced that its acquisition by Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, and Temasek, the Singapore-based investment company, has been completed.

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Berkeley settles ADA lawsuit over remote attendance for commission members

Legal Dive

City representatives approved requests but required commission members’ home addresses be publicly posted and that they allow members of the public into their homes, the complaint alleged.

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What Testimony on Titan Submersible Disaster Revealed

Insurance Journal

Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard panel that’s investigating the Titan submersible disaster heard two weeks of testimony that ended Friday.

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Checking in With Alice Part II: Takeaways and Predictions

IP Watchdog

As we learned in Part I of this article, district courts, the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) routinely confront Alice issues in different ways and with different philosophies. As the volume of Alice jurisprudence grows, so too does our ability to understand important trends. Below we outline those trends that practitioners, particularly litigators, would be wise to pay close attention to.

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New Orleans, DOJ Move to End Police Department’s Consent Decree

Insurance Journal

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Friday in federal court to take steps to end long-standing federal oversight of the city’s police department.

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California governor vetoes controversial AI safety bill

Legal Dive

Silicon Valley had largely opposed the measure, which would have imposed liability and civil penalties on companies developing the largest AI models.

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Cloudflare Denies Hosting Sites Linked to Data Leak at India’s Star Health

Insurance Journal

U.S. software firm Cloudflare has denied any role in hosting two websites run by a hacker offering for sale stolen personal data and medical records of customers of top Indian insurer Star Health.

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Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 5, No. 9

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

EDITED BY: Professor Michael H. Hoeflich, PhD , Editor-in-Chief Carrie E. Parker , Legal Editor Matthew T. Stephens , Design & Publishing Editor PUBLISHED BY: Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC PUBLICATION DATE: September 30, 2024 READ & DOWNLOAD FULL-TEXT PDF OF LEMR Vol. 5, No. 9 FEATURE ARTICLE: Institutional Censorship and Judicial Clerkship In May of 2024, a group of federal judges sent a collective letter to the president of Columbia University and the dean of Columbia Law School.

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Boar’s Head Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Deadly Listeria Outbreak

Insurance Journal

Boar’s Head, the deli meat company at the center of a deadly listeria food poisoning outbreak, is being scrutinized by law enforcement officials, the U.S. Agriculture Department disclosed in response to government records requests.

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2025 in-house legal conferences

Legal Dive

General counsel can plan their team’s conference budget for next year by seeing all the top events at a glance using Legal Dive’s list of 2025 conferences for corporate lawyers.

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Sanctioned Tanker With LNG Cargo Passes via Suez Canal, Data Shows

Insurance Journal

The Pioneer tanker, sanctioned by the United States over its links to Russia-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), has passed through the Suez Canal with an LNG cargo, LSEG data showed on Monday.

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Second Circuit Affirms Case-Ending Sanctions, Damages Against Defendants in Abbott Diabetes Test Strips Diversion Case

IP Watchdog

On September 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Abbott Laboratories v. H&H Wholesale Services, Inc., the appellate court’s latest decision in a nearly decade-long trademark case over the unlawful diversion of international diabetes test strips into the United States for sale. The appellate court affirmed the Eastern District of New York’s $33.5 million damages ruling against H&H Wholesale over the defendant’s arguments that it was entitled to a jury

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Southern Water’s Credit Risk at Record High Amid Thames Water Woes

Insurance Journal

Southern Water’s credit risk has soared to a record high in recent days as hedge funds scramble to protect themselves against the possibility of default at the UK water company.

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The farce that is America’s ‘crypto election’

Securities Docket

But reader, I must level with you right off the BAT (a digital token): the crypto voter is not, in any substantive sense, real. Aside from the small group of men (OK, mainly men) whose livelihoods now depend on this digitally indigenous fluff, most Americans have rather bigger things to worry about — food prices, healthcare, the jobs market, or the general state of their nation, maybe.

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FCC Says It Has Reached $31.5 Million Settlement With T-Mobile Over Data Breaches

Insurance Journal

T-Mobile has reached a $31.5 million settlement to resolve a probe by the Federal Communications Commission into significant data breaches over three years that impacted tens of millions of U.S. consumers, the agency said on Monday.

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SEC Charges Entities Operating Crypto Asset Trading Platform Mango Markets for Unregistered Offers and Sales of the Platform’s “MNGO” Governance Tokens

Securities Docket

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled charges against Mango DAO and Blockworks Foundation for engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of crypto assets called “MNGO” tokens. The SEC also settled charges against Blockworks Foundation and Mango Labs LLC for engaging in unregistered broker activity in connection with various crypto assets being offered and sold as securities on the Mango Markets platform.

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Judge Rules eBay Not Liable for Selling Harmful Products

Insurance Journal

A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of hundreds of thousands of harmful products on its platform, including pesticides and devices to evade motor vehicle pollution controls.

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Convicted Corporate Raider, His Longtime Accountant, and Vaping Company Charged in Indictment Alleging Conspiracy and Fraud | DOJ Press Release 

Securities Docket

A corporate takeover specialist and convicted felon has been indicted on federal charges for his alleged years-long avoidance of a judgment – now exceeding $180 million – to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) while running a cannabis and lifestyle brand company purportedly helmed by his social media influencer son – a company whose investors he allegedly cheated, the Justice Department announced today.

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Real Estate MGA Ventis Launches in Ireland

Insurance Journal

Ventis, the London-based commercial and residential real estate managing general agent, has expanded into Ireland, continuing its mission to deliver client service and capacity to brokers in the underserved middle of the property market.

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COST BITES 183: A SERIES OF BILLS WERE NOT STATUTE BILLS: “CHAMBERLAIN” NOT ENGAGED: THE JUDGE WOULD HAVE FOUND “SPECIAL REASONS” TO ALLOW ASSESSMENT IN ANY EVENT

Civil Litigation Brief

In Guest Supplies Intl Ltd v Spector Constant & Williams Limited [2024] EWHC 2450 (SCCO) Costs Judge Nagalingam decided that a series of bills sent by a solicitor were not statutory bills, neither were they “Chamberlain bills” In any event.

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Hurricane Helene Halts Poultry Plants, Damages Pecan Trees

Insurance Journal

Hurricane Helene has halted chicken processing plant operations and caused severe damage to some flocks, while also downing pecan trees and flattening cotton crops, as floodwaters swamped the southern US.

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SolarWinds security chief calls for tighter cyber laws

Securities Docket

Tim Brown, chief information security officer at SolarWinds, faced a landmark lawsuit that accused him and the company of misleading investors by not disclosing “known risks” and inaccurately representing the company’s security measures. Speaking to the Financial Times in his first interview since the complaint was largely thrown out by a federal court in July, Brown warned that global cyber regulations are still “in flux”, which “absolutely adds stress across the globe” on cyber chiefs.

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Tata iPhone Component Plant in India Halts Production Indefinitely After Fire

Insurance Journal

Production will remain suspended indefinitely at a Tata Electronics plant in southern India that makes Apple iPhone components after a fire at the weekend, officials said on Monday as they acted to prevent further damage from the blaze.

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Independent boards found to enhance worker safety

Legal Dive

The positive impact is heightened in companies dominated by long-term investors, researchers say in an academic paper.

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Powerful Typhoon Krathon Forecast to Hit Taiwan’s Populated West Coast

Insurance Journal

Taiwan issued a land warning on Monday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Krathon, which has strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and is expected to cross the densely populated west coast bringing torrential rain and strong …

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