Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. How to Get Up to Speed Fast on Your Cases I think one of the tips for litigation paralegals that could help here is what I had recommended in our three-step roadmap for new litigation paralegals.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Being a litigation paralegal comes with its challenges. In our latest podcast episode, Ann answers your litigation questions so you can fast-track your paralegal career today. Doing some preliminary searching I saw some ads for litigation paralegals and they wanted someone with experience in Florida. Litigation is litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 30, 2024

The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form. Ecological restoration and environmental remediation are some responses to climate change, and thereby this Treaty is likely to impact future climate litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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CARET Legal

JUNE 7, 2024

As the owner of a law firm, you are no stranger to the intense workloads that your litigation and corporate teams face on a daily basis. In this post, we’ll delve into some strategies to help you achieve this balance, with a special focus on how a law firm management system can be a game-changer.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) has issued a call for papers, in particular for private international law perspectives of public interest litigation. Public interest litigation Globally, we are witnessing an increase in what is called ‘public interest litigation’. Submissions are limited.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 10, 2024

The key to accelerating your career in 2024 is learning eDiscovery and this blog is going to give you a 3-step plan for litigation paralegals to follow to make it happen. I feel so passionate about litigation paralegals learning about eDiscovery because I’ve seen what it can do for litigation paralegals’ careers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The post further explores the potential implications of this clarification for climate litigation, while highlighting the key provisions that underscore the responsibilities of states in safeguarding children’s rights within the ever-evolving environmental landscape. 14 (2000) §§3, 4, and 11).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The decision, formally communicated to the parties on July 27, marks a pivotal moment in climate litigation. This blog post analyzes the Supreme Court’s decision and its implications for climate litigation efforts in Spain and beyond. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The following information has been kindly provided by Wilson Lui , PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School; Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Challenges of Private International Law in Asia Yuko Nishitani The presence of Asia in the global arena has become notable due to its thriving economy.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal? Caveat – there is so much information about what Criminal Law Paralegals do, I wish I could relay to you everything Perhaps I could share more in-depth details at another time. Communicate with Clients.

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LPB Network

JANUARY 28, 2022

Bob Klonoff has posted on SSRN a draft of his article, COVID-19 Aggregate Litigation: The Search for the Upstream Wrongdoer, which is forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Here’s the abstract: COVID-19 has generated many lawsuits—including thousands of class actions—in.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Estrin I had lunch last week with a friend who is the Director of Administration at a top, major law firm. The firm had been seeking a litigation paralegal for months. The hiring manager wants to find a 2-5 year litigation paralegal who has gone to trial and does not want to pay more than $65-80,000 per year. Quite a twist!

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Patently O

MARCH 25, 2024

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School I realize most readers aren’t law professors, so you can stop now… I have taught IP courses for years and often the books seek to teach the subject through cases, which is a very difficult way to learn it.

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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc., LEARN MORE 3. GET ACCESS 3.

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LawSites

AUGUST 18, 2021

Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word , is intended to establish for legal professionals “a baseline understanding for the document-creation work valued in the legal ecosystem, define parameters for the work, and set expectations for quality, effort, and result.”.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. It later expanded to add employment law briefs and product liability briefs. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Most attorneys should probably be ruled by their calendars, with law practices running on deadlines. That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. This will require you to ‘phase’ the project = break it down step-by-step, and create reminders.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen published its newest blog post series in early August. This series is based on the keynote speeches and panel discussions from the 2024 PAX Moot Half Day Conference, held on 26 April 2024 in Ljubljana.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The hardest thing about sticking to a law firm marketing strategy is. It’s all about consistency; and, most law firms will fail in that regard – instead producing content in fits and starts, without ever getting into a groove. Want to better structure your law firm marketing plan? well, sticking to it. We can help.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

| Avoid costly litigation with better drafting. Million Comma appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers. Get to the Point! | Put the modifier first! The post The $4.85

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2022

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). 1) Conference ‘ The Future Regulation of Third-Party Funding in Europe ’.

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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. Jeff argued for the laws at the time of signing.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Last week, the Sabin Center’s Peer Reviewer Network provided a detailed comment in response to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Call for Comments on the draft study concerning the impact of climate change on human rights in Africa.

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LexForti

MARCH 16, 2022

In this article, we get to understand the key areas while drafting an Artist agreement between the producer and an artist; engaging the artist for his services for a film or music. When drafting a written agreement between an artist and a producer for the artist’s services for a film, key areas include Ownership and Use of Work.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By leveraging legal workflow automation to optimize operations, law offices can unlock a host of benefits that enhance efficiency, accuracy, collaboration, and overall success. The automation of legal workflows has become a game-changer for law offices.

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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.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 7, 2024

On 11 and 12 July 2024 , the Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ) Final Conference will take place at the University of Luxembourg. The project was designed to provide a comprehensive analysis of comparative civil procedural law and contemporary civil dispute resolution mechanisms.

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Knackly

APRIL 26, 2023

Beyond a concrete understanding of law, the profession requires the intellectual flexibility to adjust to each client’s specific and unique situations. In this blog, we’d like to address you—the attorneys of the world—and lay out exactly how Knackly revolutionizes the way you approach litigation.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. Ways Clients Win.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 25, 2021

Unless the law firm you work for only assigns one case at a time to you (and, let’s be honest, that is not going to happen), then you are going to have to juggle more than one case and keep all of them organized. You take a new position as a litigation paralegal and you are trying to get a grasp on what is going on in each of your cases.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that 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. Successive governors have long claimed they are not.)

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As paralegals, it’s our job to provide support to attorneys and clients, dedicating countless hours to research, investigation, drafting, and client engagement. I was considering law school and wanted to get a taste of what it was like to work in a law firm. Are you feeling like an underpaid paralegal?

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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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