By Frank Ready | May 30, 2019
Like most industries, law firms are dealing with stiff competition for cybersecurity personnel, but that contest may be a distraction from other cyber-related problems that need addressing first.
By Steven A. Meyerowitz | May 30, 2019
A California court has rejected an insured's efforts to enforce a check he authorized his insurer to issue to his contractor, which deposited the check in its own bank account.
By Lizzy McLellan | May 28, 2019
"The things that make you successful professionally can make you sick emotionally," says wellness consultant Jarrett Green.
By Lizzy McLellan | May 27, 2019
"If they had just given me a couple days to sleep for 15 hours, I would have been a different person," said one attorney-turned psychotherapist.
By Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein | May 24, 2019
In Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. ComicMix, the Southern District of California granted summary judgment to defendants, affirming its prior findings that a ComicMix illustrated book combining elements of several Seuss children's books with characters, themes and other features of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek was a non-infringing fair use of the Seuss material from which it had admittedly been “slavishly” copied.
By Steven A. Meyerowitz | May 23, 2019
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that, under California law, there is no insurance coverage for a lawsuit alleging intentional conduct, even if the insured did not intend to cause injury.
By Kenneth Weatherwax | May 22, 2019
Years of confusion over what is “eligible” for patenting have weakened the U.S. patent system.
By Steven A. Meyerowitz | May 21, 2019
An appellate court in California has rejected an appeal by GEICO General Insurance Company from a judgment awarding $1 million in punitive damages for GEICO's bad faith breach of an insurance contract.
By Roy Strom | May 19, 2019
Measuring lawyers by the hours they bill was long treated as a necessary evil. Faced with evidence that mental health erodes as hours increase, legal industry innovators are asking how necessary it really is.
By Xiumei Dong | May 16, 2019
Law firms in California experienced lower revenue growth during the first quarter of 2019 in a departure from last year's trend, according to a report by Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group.
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