ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When litigation over the opioid crisis was initiated, pharmacies like Walmart, CVS and Walgreens alleged that their role in the opioid crisis was limited to filling legal prescriptions for a legal drug. However, opioid litigation plaintiffs prevailed in several smaller cases in which courts found that pharmacies were liable.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It contans the following articles: Horatia Muir Watt: Alterity in the Conflict of Laws. Importantly, law encodes the conditions that produce these dual somatic symptoms in our contemporary societies. One element of territorial sovereignty is the right to legislate in the field of private law.

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Law 360

APRIL 15, 2022

Broadcom decision, its errata and subsequent case law applying inter partes review estoppel highlight the need for thorough due diligence and precise development of litigation strategy before deciding to enforce or invalidate certain patents, say attorneys at Goldberg Segalla. The Federal Circuit's recent Caltech v.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 11, 2022

This blog post highlights takeaways from the resolution and its significance for climate litigation. Impact on climate litigation. The resolution has the potential to have a significant impact on both pending and future climate litigation petitions within the IASHR. This transition has already led to climate litigation.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Julie Saltman is the CEO and co-founder of Standd, an AI-native due diligence and deal review platform, which eliminates friction and creates clarity throughout the deal process, so everyone around the table can focus on building the relationships that are critical to success. Department of Justice.

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

But in precisely that scenario, Amy Falcon , a litigation partner with Porter Hedges in Houston, says she was able to cut the cost of preparing the brief by 20%, and she attributes that savings entirely to the legal technology product, Clearbrief. Practicing law is her second career. Falcon is no newbie to tech.

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Patently O

MAY 4, 2021

He is starting a new series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. Zubulake V , the first case in my Civil Procedure discovery module, is a perfect example of the dangers facing a party if they are not diligent about evidence preservation. By Avery Welker. Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC , 229 F.R.D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). 58) by consensus.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a sign of the speed at which AI is permeating the practice of law, a Magic Circle law firm with offices around the globe is now providing its lawyers with access to AI tools to speed the delivery of legal services. Harvey Chatbot, you’re hired! Should lawyers fear ChatGPT and other AI tools?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 14, 2021

Legal recruiting is an important business development tool for law firms looking to expand their client roster, build up their practice areas, and open offices in new locations. In this second article, let’s discuss how firms can use litigation data to make their legal recruiting a more successful and profitable endeavor.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 16, 2021

But what about practicing law? As these technologies continue to improve, AI in law will only grow. AI in law is a relatively new and continually expanding concept. Criminal Law. AI in criminal law may be a more widespread phenomenon than you realize. Civil Litigation. Corporate Law.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Each trend has its roots in the now well-established field of litigation-support technology. Litigation technology was born out of a need to manage the high volume of potentially responsive documents because of the shift from paper to electronic documents and communication. These opportunities center on four trends discussed below.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

Yet, behind every successful attorney stands a diligent and indispensable ally: the paralegal. Most, if not all, attorneys have paralegals, or someone that does all the work of a paralegal, without whom it would be extremely difficult to deliver legal services; as they do various jobs that make the law properly administered.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Specifically, the Federal Circuit found, based on the evidence presented, that VLSI’s doctrine of equivalents theory failed as a matter of law, and therefore, the judgment of infringement was reversed on that patent. As to damages, the Federal Circuit remanded the case for a new trial on the issue of damages.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

He offered a historical parable to highlight the importance of security for federal judges, and he praised Congress for passing a law to increase protection for judges and their families. Davies, Roberts continued, was also “physically threatened for following the law.” But, Roberts emphasized, a “judicial system cannot live in fear.”.

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MyCase

APRIL 29, 2024

What Is the Role of AI in Law Today? Here’s how they’re using it: Legal research Document review Due diligence E-discovery While some lawyers enthusiastically embrace AI for its potential to enhance efficiency and accuracy, others remain cautious. However, it is reshaping traditional models of practicing law.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 6, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. The decision thoughtfully discusses splits in the case law and the distinctions between a corporation and LLC, including the fact that members of an LLC may be anonymous, and so it may be impossible to determine the citizenship of each of its members. In Avus Designs Inc. Grezxx LLC (D.

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Patently O

JANUARY 23, 2024

By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather Co., The Schedule A litigation phenomenon continues apace in the Northern District of Illinois, a court that has become, in the words of Judge Seeger, “ an assembly line for TROs.” Joes Identified in Schedule A, No.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Topics: Enablement / Written Description (All three are biotech / pharma): 3 Cases; Infringement (FDA Labeling): 1 Case; Anticipation (On Sale Bar): 1 Case; Double Patenting (Still the law?): According to the Federal Circuit, US patent law contains separate and distinct written description and enablement requirements. USPTO , No.

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Cenza

JANUARY 27, 2023

The practice of outsourcing certain aspects of legal work by law firms, in-house counsels, and individual attorneys existed for decades. While we continue to offer our conventional legal process outsourcing services for law firms, the time has necessitated our evolution to be relevant in the digital age. billion market today.

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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. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, the filing of a number of fashion and broader retail industry lawsuits and developments in previously-filed ones stood out in the crowded landscape of litigation in many cases because they indicate larger trends within the fashion space. Peloton Sues, Lululemon Countersues in Apparel Fight. million up from $281.2

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 5, 2021

One best practice is to have a well-defined intake process using thorough due diligence to vet clients. As part of your due diligence, you will initially want to interview your law firm’s prospect ive clients to learn more about them and their reason s for seeking counsel.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 11, 2022

It might have been double that, but I had a live webinar I was presenting to a law firm on billable hours. If you’re in litigation, you’ve been hearing about and working with legal AI in your eDiscovery technology tools for years. What did a typical day look like back then, let’s say as a litigation paralegal?

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Calloquy Platform Calloquy is dedicated to making remote legal proceedings safe, secure, and efficient, both to reduce cost and risk for corporate litigants and to expand access to justice for underserved communities. CiteRight is the only tool that allows lawyers to save case law and automatically cite it inside Microsoft Word.

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Cenza

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It also acts as a huge time saver by automating contracting information related to document reviews for due diligence, litigation legalese, legal research, etc. According to a survey of ~100 law firms by real estate giant CBRE, 48% of firms already use AI software in their businesses, and 41% have immediate plans to implement it.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 23, 2023

The potential for disruption and disintermediation of the practice of law is already evident, but so are the powerful use cases that many are already trying to implement. Released Nov. 30, ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI and “is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 So should lawyers welcome this technology? Or should they fear it?

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Strictly Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The purchase agreement is typically drafted by the buyer’s counsel after the letter of intent has been signed and the buyer has done enough due diligence to feel confident that it wants to pursue the transaction. Miscellaneous provisions – this can include things like governing law and venue (i.e.,

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Cenza

AUGUST 25, 2021

In February 2021, Thomson Reuters Institute has published the biennial study in partnership with the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. However, the data denotes that they have evolved as a strong ally today for law firms and corporate legal entities.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

Our all-in-one virtual litigation platform streamlines and professionalizes the process of conducting and managing remote and hybrid litigation. Users host meetings, mediations, and depositions that mimics real-life litigation scenarios and provides a level of security befitting legal proceedings.

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LawSites

MARCH 21, 2023

lawyers and 1,239 law students — are generally more aware than the general public of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, with 88% of legal professionals having heard of them compared to 57% of consumers. Conducting due diligence, 12%. Developing litigation strategies, 5%. Some impact, 48%. Significant impact, 33%.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this commentary, we recall the background of the case, provide context to the Tribunal’s decision, and shed light on the case’s takeaways for global climate litigation. The Tribunal’s use of Aarhus to broadly interpret standing is a promising development for climate litigation in other States parties to this Convention.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

In the legal industry, we have stenography, clearly the market leader in delivering a key service in litigation: court and deposition reporting. The shortage is forecast to worsen — triggering significant delays to proceedings and a sharp increase in costs by the laws of supply and demand. What Is AI-Assisted Court Reporting?

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. Successful law firms not only accommodated dynamic client needs in this moment of unprecedented upheaval, but also made internal structural changes to ensure the work got done as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Sommerfeld ) The Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence The process towards an EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is gaining momentum.

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