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With Court Authorization, Litigators Discover Remote Depositions

LawTechnologyToday

She used it for the first time on April 1, 2020 when taking a remote deposition over Zoom. I’m reminded too of my column from 2014 about the end of the paper chase, thanks to electronic exhibits, which streamline depositions—whether remote or in-person. After the pandemic, whenever that is, remote depositions will not go away.

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Federal jury convicts Harvard professor of concealing ties to Chinese university

JURIST

Over the following three years, WUT periodically deposited portions of Leiber’s salary into that account. Leiber’s three-year contract with the Thousand Talents program provided him with a monthly salary from WUT of up to $50,000, living expenses up to $150,000 and $1.5 million to establish a research lab.

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Casetext Launches Co-Counsel, Its OpenAI-Based ‘Legal Assistant’ To Help Lawyers Search Data, Review Documents, Draft Memos, Analyze Contracts and More

LawSites

Prepare for a deposition. In my day job, I am a lobbyist representing the newspaper industry in Massachusetts. So, to test this feature, I upload a set of PDFs of recently filed bills in Massachusetts and then asked three questions about those bills’ potential impact on the business of newspapers and the work of journalists.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

see “classic retainer” vs. “advance payment retainer” vs. “security retainer” in Illinois ), but in general, a lawyer is required to deposit flat fees and expenses paid into a client trust account in advance for representation. Other states that mention flat fees in their rules include California, Florida and Massachusetts.

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The Legal Side of Five Business Decisions

LawTechnologyToday

Plus, you’ll save yourself a trip to the bank to deposit the funds, as well as some of those funds, since many banks charge businesses fees after a certain amount of cash deposits per month. To date, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut have all banned cashless retail stores.

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Q&A With Heather Stevenson: A Less Traditional Path

Attorney at Work

Massachusetts. I attended depositions, drafted dispositive motions, prepared outlines for oral argument, and attended the hearings. In late November 2017, I decided I would take the February Massachusetts bar exam and then try to find a job the following fall, around our son’s first birthday. Deputy General Counsel.

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Make Vaccines Mandatory for Federal Inmates: Columnist

The Crime Report

About 40 percent of Massachusetts prison guards aren’t vaccinated, and they lost their latest bid to not comply with the state’s vaccine mandate. “In Bozelko notes that ironically corrections staff are among the fiercest opponents of mandatory vaccines.