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India Supreme Court issues notice in petition challenging bar exam rules

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It is typically conducted by the Bar Council twice a year to test the candidates’ knowledge on various substantive and procedural la w such as constitutional law, administrative law, the Indian Penal Code, criminal and civil procedure, evidence, public interest litigation, and professional ethics.

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What Really is the Distinction In between Paralegal and a Litigator?

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Both are required to conduct extensive study and draught court documentation for the matter they are working on. A paralegal’s primary responsibility is case preparation, which includes gathering information about a case, preparing reports, filing and organizing relevant documentation, and scheduling interviews and depositions.

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Guest Post: Diversity Pilots Initiative Comment on Proposed Changes to PTAB Practice

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Lead counsel must be a USPTO-registered practitioner, meaning that they have technical training and have passed the registration exam (commonly known as the “patent barexam). Currently, parties appearing before the PTAB who are represented by counsel must designate lead and backup counsel.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

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Meet Our Guest Expert Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), the world’s leading organization for training and certification in e-discovery. We’ve got our training and certification programs. Discover where your litigation career path can take you.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

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Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

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I’m on a mission this year to interview some paralegals who broke into the paralegal profession without even having a paralegal certificate and to find out how they did it and what kind of lessons they can pass along to others. She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). LEARN MORE Q.

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NY Announces Temporary Authorization Program for Recent Law Grads

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In this week that NY law grads were originally scheduled to be taking the bar exam, the New York State Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) has announced a revision of its rules to temporarily authorize qualifying graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to practice law in New York under supervision pending their admission to the bar.