Strictly Business

APRIL 24, 2022

1, 2021, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA; codified in 31 U.S.C. This includes any entity that is created by filing with the secretary of state of a state or territory in the US, such as corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships.

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ALPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

My role was small; I answered questions about Lawyers’ Professional Liability (LPL) insurance. Often, if the firm’s general phone number is listed as the attorney’s contact number, a receptionist asks about details that we can’t discuss. I recently attended a paralegal training event.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 17, 2024

In Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Cement , the Supreme Court today expands insureds’ options in tapping excess insurance policies to cover liability incurred — in this case, for manufacturing asbestos-containing products — over a number of years and various policy periods. 5th 215 (see here ).

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Respondents were asked how comfortable, in general, do they feel using their firm’s available technology. Security and Cyber Insurance. Cyber liability insurance is great to have but firms should be aware of what is covered and what is not covered. About the Author.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 25, 2024

Facts of the Case As set forth in the Court’s opinion, DFS regulates insurance companies and financial services institutions doing business in New York, and has the power to initiate investigations and civil enforcement actions, as well as to refer matters for criminal prosecution. Lockton and Chubb subsequently suspended Carry Guard.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. Facts Great Lakes Insurance SE (GLI) is a corporation organized under the laws of the Germany that is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As in past years, it shows that many attorneys and law firms are employing safeguards covered in the questions in the survey and their use is generally increasing over time. The numbers have generally increased over the years and generally increase with firm size.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 11, 2023

In general, we can classify the costs into two categories: Direct financial losses can result from fraudulent charges and fees, lost sales due to downtime, and the cost of repairing or replacing hardware and software. It’s worth noting that insurance coverage can help cover some of the costs associated with a data breach.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Your business plan should contain four critical sections: Executive Summary : This summarizes your business plan by including a general description of your firm, the area(s) of law you plan to practice, where you plan to take your firm, and why your firm will succeed. Marketing Plan : Who are your clients? How will you reach them?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

For example, a person who has a medical background could easily transition from a general business litigation practice area to work in medical malpractice or personal injury. However, generally speaking, a litigation paralegal can transition pretty easily from one specialty area to another without too much of a learning curve.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 20, 2024

The Directive will apply to big EU companies (generally those with more than 1,000 employees and a worldwide turnover of more than EUR 450 000 000) but also to companies established under the law of a third country that meet the Directive’s criteria (Article 2 CSDDD). UCITS Directive , EMD , Solvency II , AIFMD , MiFID II , and PSD2 ).

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jean-Marc Thouvenin , Secretary-General of the Academy, this year’s inaugural lecture was given by Dominique Hascher, judge at the Supreme Judicial Court of France. The General Course was given by Louis d’Avout , a professor of private international law at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. After the welcome speech by prof.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

Subsequently, Jan Lüttringhaus (University of Hanover) focused on “Punitive Damages and Insurance”, picking up the BGH’s concerns regarding the insurability of punitive damage awards (which the Court deemed an incalculable and uninsurable risk). French courts, on the other hand, seemed to apply a rather general proportionality test.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It was the CJEU which, in the course of its case law, developed the concept of the economic unit, allowing victims to bring an action against the whole of the undertaking affected by the cartel infringement or against certain of its subsidiaries or to seek their joint liability.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 14, 2023

As these allegations of antitrust violations have risen to the fore, Republican Attorneys General have also taken aim at asset managers’ responses to ESG-related shareholder proposals. Perhaps in recognition that the grounds for antitrust violations are weak, recent Congressional testimony from Utah’s Attorney General Sean D.

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InHouseBlog

JULY 29, 2023

Buyer concerns about assuming historical liabilities of the Target (which mitigate in favor of an asset purchase structure) and the tax impact of the deal structure on the parties are usually the main drivers for choosing a particular deal structure. assets minus liabilities) and “cash at closing”. Net working capital” (i.e.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Swaps – A swap is “an exchange of one asset or liability for a similar asset or liability for the general purpose of shifting risks.” For example, an investor could purchase a call option that allows them to buy a company’s stock at a set price even if the market price increases beyond that level in the set time period.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 23, 2023

It considers whether anti-suit injunctions to protect forum selection clauses will become the new norm, and suggests that there is Supreme Court authority militating against the grant of such injunctive relief as a matter of course. The claimant had issued a liability insurance policy to the owners in respect of the yacht.

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CosmoLex

JANUARY 24, 2024

While the balance sheet encompasses assets, liabilities, and equity, business accounting doesn’t address fiscal matter management, a domain unique to legal practices Matter Cost/Income Accounting : This is used to record client costs, cost reimbursements, and fee income in the general ledger.

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stop opening new tabs for every cited authority and just hover over the citation to quickly understand cited cases without leaving your current page or breaking your flow. General counsels and legal ops teams use LegalOn to accelerate contracting and maintain compliance, improving margins and increasing revenue for their business.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 23, 2023

It asked whether I had authorized a charge of about $12 on my ATM/debit card. On social media, I only click on links that come from reputable sources, and I generally ignore, delete, and/or block texts from numbers I don’t recognize. Multiple off-site backups and cyber insurance are becoming non-negotiable must-haves for law firms.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2022

But between the taxpayers and any restorative pay-out to victims of miscarriages of justice there is an influential layer of players that warrants more attention than it gets: the lawyers who defend towns, cities, and their insurance carriers in the civil suits brought by the criminal system’s victims. Limiting Past Liability.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 28, 2022

But can the lex fori and its regulatory purpose, which is to guarantee protection of confidence and legal certainty in civil proceedings, also be brought into position against the liability regime of foreign insolvency proceedings? In the opinion of the authors, the IV. A look at Art.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Division One said “the RJA does not authorize a freestanding motion for discovery; it only authorizes discovery in a pending proceeding in which the defendant has alleged a[n] [RJA] violation.” ” [ Sic : the opinion should read “ only authorizes discovery only in a pending proceeding.”] Link added.)

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 19, 2021

Furthermore, the authors look at areas of law where the EU has made use of its external competence. In the opinion of the author, this decision will no longer be relevant in Germany because it is not consistent with the decision Apple Sales, which has been rendered almost a year later. 25 Brussels Ia Regulation itself.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

17 Justice Alito’s concurrence likewise stated that “[t]he relevant authorities, particularly pre-Lanham Act case law, show that willfulness is a highly important consideration in awarding profits under § 1117(a), but not an absolute precondition.” 25 Others note that lack of insurance among Chinese manufacturers often makes indemni?cation

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. The present authors are pleased to have extended this tradition for the last three years. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act In Tu?rkiye

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Teva was a “narrow, case-specific review,” Judge Andrews dismissed Amarin’s suit against Hikma in which Amarin alleged that Hikma’s skinny-labeled generic icosapent ethyl induced infringement of Amarin’s method-of-use patents. The Court, however, would not dismiss similar allegations as applied to health insurer. In the wake of GSK v.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Teva was a “narrow, case-specific review,” Judge Andrews dismissed Amarin’s suit against Hikma in which Amarin alleged that Hikma’s skinny-labeled generic icosapent ethyl induced infringement of Amarin’s method-of-use patents. The Court, however, would not dismiss similar allegations as applied to health insurer. In the wake of GSK v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Fourth Amendment generally requires police to get a warrant before searching someones belongings. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions were watching is available here. Villarreal v. Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 6, 2025

This article will cover two categories: Specialty Areas (to work in) and General Paralegal Trends for 2025. Instead, it involves working on cases disputing some aspect of AIfrom intellectual property disputes to liability issues. Meet the Author Ann Pearson is the Founder of the Paralegal Boot Camp, and host of the Paralegals on Fire!

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 31, 2024

For the first time, the CJEU affirms its authority to interpret (at least certain aspects of) member states’ international agreements with non-member states also in proceedings under Art. In addition, the Bundesgerichtshof commented on disputed questions of private international law concerning the limitation of liability under maritime law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The court also called for the views of the solicitor general (a so-called CVSG) in Epic Systems Corp v. Attorney General , which held in 2005 that, to establish derivative citizenship under the since-amended version of 8 U.S.C. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. The court held that it was bound by its prior decision in Jordon v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To ensure timely payment of property taxes and insurance premiums, many mortgage lenders require borrowers to deposit money into escrow accounts, which often carry a significant positive balance. Back in March , the Supreme Court invited the solicitor general to file a brief expressing the views of the United States on these cases.

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Customs & International Trade Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

First Sale First Sale is a system that decreases the dutiable value of imported goods by authorizing importers to use the price paid in the first sale. Manipulation of merchandise is generally prohibited unless approved by U.S. Importers may repackage, sort, or label imports at these locations under the supervision of U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

13] The European Union also appeared momentarily ready to adopt an EU-wide change in corporate fiduciary duties as part of its Green Deal legislation, which would have included legal responsibility for climate risk, but this proposal was deleted even before a more general rollback of the EU legislation was recently announced. [14]

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Smith , which held that the free exercise clause does not prohibit the enforcement of generally applicable laws that incidentally burden religious conduct. Four cases brought by states and coal producers challenging the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases at the national level. Texas , 20-493.

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