ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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LexForti

JANUARY 21, 2022

I am Sanjita Mittal , and I have earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and a master’s degree in Intellectual Property Rights from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. This article discusses the scope and growth of litigation finance in India. Concept of Litigation Finance.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law.

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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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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Gonzalez — The annual Enforcement, Litigation, and Compliance Conference put on by the Food and Drug Law Institute (“FDLI”) took place in Washington this week. On Day 2 of the conference, HPM’s Anne Walsh moderated a fascinating conversation about due diligence investigations relating to FDA-regulated industries. By Steven J.

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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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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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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. ” The tribunal also emphasized that article 194, paragraph 1, of UNCLOS imposes a due diligence standard on States that is “stringent”.

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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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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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CARET Legal

APRIL 8, 2024

On one hand, it’s a measure of a lawyer’s productivity and a key revenue driver for law firms. Billable Hours Recap report in CARET Legal Exhausting Case Work Consider, for instance, a lawyer handling a complex litigation case. The post What Is the Biggest Challenge Facing Law Firms Today?

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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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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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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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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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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 26, 2024

Switzerland is a striking example of the Paris effect: the influence of the non-binding collective goals of the Paris Agreement (PA) on the interpretation of domestic constitutional law or international human rights law in climate litigation. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Reinforcing the procedural limb of Art.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Written by Justin Borg-Barthet, Katarina Trimmings, Burcu Yüksel Ripley and Patricia Živkovic Note: This post is also available via the blog of the European Association of Private International Law. We had known, of course, of the impact and importance of Jonathan’s work to the world of private international law scholarship.

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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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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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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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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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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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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Highlights vastly streamlines preparation, helps create more effective documents, saves time on research and due diligence, and ultimately produces more strategic arguments. This is helpful to get up to speed not only on case law but also opposing counsel and parties in the case. Highlights isn’t just for litigators either.

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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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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 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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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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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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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

As discussed Wednesday in part one of this three-part series, these posts are a collection of reflections on the 10th anniversary of the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. ReInvent Law was shocking.

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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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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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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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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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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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