It was an honor last week for KCIC to receive a 2016 Future 50 Award from SmartCEO magazine — recognizing us as one of the Washington, D.C., metro region’s 50 fastest growing mid-sized companies. On Feb. 4, more than a dozen KCIC team members attended an awards dinner along with the other honorees. We were […]
Personal jurisdiction has been a hot topic in asbestos litigation circles ever since the U.S. Supreme Court case Daimler AG vs Bauman in 2014, which essentially ruled that a defendant can only be sued in a state that is its principal place of business, or a state where it is incorporated. This ruling caught the […]
“Thank you for taking the time to share the wonderful changes to our website. This will be very beneficial as we continue to utilize the policies.” That’s what one client took the time to tell us recently, after we upgraded them to The Ligado Platform’s enhanced Policy Management module. We launched the upgrade late last […]
Looking ahead to the 2016 conference schedule, I’m really looking forward to the first event on my calendar: HB Litigation’s Emerging and Complex Insurance Claims Forum in Los Angeles, Feb. 25-26. It’s an event I’m chairing, that KCIC is sponsoring, and that my colleague, Carrie Scott, will be speaking at, as well. The focus of the […]
Here at KCIC, one of our favorite traditions that we look forward to all year is participating in the annual Holiday Helper gift drive to benefit families in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Each year, our team adopts families through the Prince George’s Child Resource Center, a local nonprofit that helps needy families care for […]
Last week, our company held its annual holiday party. It’s one of the highlights of our company social calendar, and this year’s party was a particular success. As I do each year, I made some remarks to the company and our guests, touching on the highlights of all that we accomplished over the past year. […]
In Federal court last week in Manhattan, a jury found the longtime speaker of the New York Assembly, Sheldon Silver, guilty of all charges in a federal corruption trial. The former speaker is convicted of steering $500,000 in taxpayer funds to a cancer researcher. That doctor, in turn, referred mesothelioma patients with potentially large legal […]
This past weekend, five members of the KCIC team gathered in Virginia to participate in the Richmond Marathon races. The beautiful fall weather provided perfect conditions for all participants to enjoy the day, and the event was a success for us as a group, and as individuals. I joined Okey Onyiuke and Morgan Heczko in […]
KCIC is pleased to present this guest post by David Katzenstein, Member at Eckert Seamans national law firm. We have many means for organizing the huge amount of data in our lives and work. Some of us file email in folders. Others apply tags to help search the organized materials. Others are masters of spreadsheets. Looking […]
KCIC is pleased to present this guest post by Joseph W. Bauer, Principal of Bauer Advising LLC. For 20 years I served as the general counsel of a global company. NYSE traded. Eight thousand employees in 30 countries. Complicated manufacturing processes. Our products and components were used in everything from wall coverings to transmission fluids; flooring […]
