JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

India’s Ministry of Law and Justice released Friday the Draft Mediation Bill, 2021 , inviting comments and suggestions from all stakeholders. As of date, in the absence of a separate statute, Section 89 of the Civil Procedure Code , as well as the rules framed by several high courts under that section, govern mediation in India.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2022

Parties are increasingly using e-discovery technologies to control costs, but as a New York federal court order in Actos Antitrust Litigation shows, a well-drafted, negotiated protocol allows them to address potential objections prior to use and helps protect against later claims of incomplete production, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.

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LawSites

MARCH 21, 2024

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. The draft complaints include jurisdictional allegations, general allegations, claims with elements that are supported by facts, and a demand section.

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LPB Network

MARCH 9, 2021

Ann Woolhandler and Julia Mahoney have posted on SSRN a draft of their article, Federal Courts and Takings Litigation. Here’s the abstract: Disagreements about takings claims extend to both substantive and jurisdictional issues. Many advocates of deference to state and.

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Knackly

APRIL 26, 2023

They provide legal advice and services, representing individuals and organizations in court cases, contracts, transactions, and an almost unending number of other matters. All too often, attorneys must put in extra time and effort to ensure that all of the information is accurate and ready for court.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Proposed Regulation of Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union. Written by Adrian Cordina , PhD researcher at Erasmus School of Law, project member of the Vici project ‘Affordable Access to Justice ’ which deals with costs and funding of civil litigation, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In what it appears would be a first for a federal circuit court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering adoption of a rule change that would require lawyers and unrepresented litigants to provide a certification regarding their use of artificial intelligence in preparing court filings.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These skills helped me conduct comprehensive legal research, understand the legal language, simplify complex information, and draft convincing legal documents/arguments with accuracy and clarity. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Climate litigation is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon , making courts essential players in the movement towards employing climate governance to advance and protect human rights, and vice versa. With this growing trend, scholars are shining a light on the influence of the Global South in transnational climate litigation.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. So, if you end up needing to draft a document for court, remind yourself, beforehand: to do the research, to generate a first draft, to get feedback on your draft, to make final edits.

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the record and build a table of authorities. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline. 20% Savings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court, a first instance administrative court, decided in favor of the plaintiffs in the first Czech strategic climate case ( Klimatická žaloba ?R Eva Balounová *. Introduction. Background to the claim.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents. It scans for document type (e.g.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 22, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? Be a sponge and know the ins and outs of your legal field, from case law to court procedures. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Litigators have different drafting styles when it comes to pleadings. Their goal is often to tell the story from their client's perspective and convince the reader that their client's case is compelling.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. The court was not sympathetic.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The last few days saw two major developments in international rights-based climate litigation, with the adoption of a new resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and a long-awaited decision on a climate case by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Recent Developments on rights-based climate litigation.

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Law 360

MAY 22, 2023

Supreme Court's decision last week in Amgen v. Sanofi — the first to enforce the patent enablement requirement in a biotech setting — will be enormously impactful, affecting patent drafting, litigation and licensing, and investment in research and development for life-changing therapies, says Irena Royzman at Kramer Levin.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna disagreed.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp The only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career. Looking at the Litigation Boot Camp as an example, let’s pick Module 4 on the sales page. It is what it is. It’s up to you.

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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

A New York hedge fund that helped draft a failed $2.6 billion deal to take a casino in the Philippines public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company is now trying to intervene in the company's Delaware lawsuit against the casino's operators, challenging a pending settlement that would end their Chancery Court litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

Training for Litigation Paralegals Are you new to litigation and struggling to get the on-the-job training to be successful? The Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp is the only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

Training for Litigation Paralegals Are you new to litigation and struggling to get the on-the-job training to be successful? The Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp is the only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 3, 2023

Remember that Attorneys are not the Grammar Police One thing that I didn’t realize is that a lot of paralegals will do their drafts and not finish the edits. Here’s an example, let’s say you are a litigation paralegal who wants to set a goal next year to get your ACEDS eDiscovery certification.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On appeal, the court found this consistent with the plain claim language under Phillips v. The IPR case here relates to the parallel litigation still pending in Masimo Corp. The infringement litigation has been stayed pending outcome of the IPRs. 3d 1303 (Fed. 2005) (en banc), and the specification. Sotera Wireless, Inc.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

This includes the processes used to identify the laws and documents that apply to the facts of a specific case, including statutes, regulations, and court opinions. Unsurprisingly, a large part of a paralegal’s workload is drafting legal documents. Court hearings before lunch are often a common part of the routine as well.

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2024

The AI-driven legal drafting tool Clearbrief has entered into a partnership with legal research company LexisNexis Legal & Professional that provides its customers who are also Lexis subscribers with access to legal content and citations on Lexis while drafting documents within the Clearbrief add-in for Microsoft Word. ” .

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

DTSA fully opened the federal courts to trade secret litigation as well as added several new features, including an ex parte seizure remedy and whistleblower immunity. David Almeling and Victoria Cundiff are two of the most experienced trade secret litigators in the nation.

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LegalReader

JUNE 8, 2021

While several justices appeared to support the lawsuit's underlying logic, the bench will give Congress time to pass any necessary reform.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. This litigation should be a warning to all innovative legal technology providers.”. Series of Meetings.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But what do you do when your first day starts with 60 active pre-litigation files assigned to you? Even if you’re in a different practice area, some of these will also apply to you, whether in personal injury, real estate, or commercial litigation. . 3 – Know the Litigation Process. Or maybe you transferred from another firm.

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Mondaq

JULY 29, 2022

This webinar will explore the options for foreign organizations in managing and resolving business contract disputes with Indian parties including contract drafting, mediation, conciliation, expert determination, litigation in the Indian courts, litigation in foreign courts, domestic arbitration, and international arbitration.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share 2022 was a turbulent year for the Supreme Court. In May, a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to the press , revealing that a majority of the court was poised to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion. Less than two months later, a divided court made that decision official, in Dobbs v.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why Attention To Detail Matters in Your Paralegal Career This one paralegal skill is also something I teach inside the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp , because in my opinion, as a new litigation paralegal, if you master your attention to detail early in your career, you can make up for some of your lack of experience. Of course, we do.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In this article, I will share with you what I have learned in my first year as a litigation paralegal: 1. For instance, let’s assume a partner asked you to draft a notice of hearing for the Doe v. Calendar any hearing you are copied on an email, and calendar any court or deposition date you find on pleadings.

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