Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. 1. 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. Even if you’re not new to the litigation practice area, this would help because it can also be a method that you use to get up to speed fast on any new cases.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 23, 2024

Wendy Merrill | The only way younger associate attorneys will make money for your firm is if they feel the firm is invested in their training and success. The post Protecting Your Investment: How to Realize a Robust ROI From Associates appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Join me today at 1 p.m. ET for a free roundtable discussion for law firms, Navigating the New Legal Landscape, Where We Are and What’s Ahead. We plan to take a deep dive into the current state of the industry and offer a lens to what the future holds. The panel will feature Jayanth Madheswaran , founder and CEO of legal AI company Eve.AI ; Jim Hallenbeck , president and CEO at Black Hills AI ; and me.

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Law 360

JANUARY 23, 2024

An attorney taking on their first pro bono immigration matter may find the law and procedures beguiling, but understanding key deadlines, the significance of individual immigration judges' rules and specialized aspects of the practice can help avoid common missteps, says Steven Malm at Haynes Boone.

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A Synergistic Approach to eDiscovery In the space of eDiscovery, the convergence of document summarization, sentiment analysis, and chatbots represents a significant change in how legal professionals navigate and manage electronic information. These technologies not only expedite the review process but also empower legal teams with deeper insights into the emotional context and key information within electronic documents.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the seizure of 700 safety deposit boxes under the process of civil asset forfeiture went beyond the warrant issued and violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure. The case began in 2021, when the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) obtained a warrant to search a storage facility in Beverly Hills, California, as part of its investigation into the company US Private Vaults for the alleged crime of money

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Law 360

JANUARY 22, 2024

A Manhattan jury heard Monday of how former National Rifle Association president Oliver North and others believed the gun rights group's outside counsel at Brewer Attorneys & Counselors was charging excessive legal fees, which at one point rose to $24 million in just over a year.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 23, 2024

Even assuming the firm is correct. this seems very wrong. The post Biglaw Firm Fires Multiple Attorneys Without Warning Over Zoom appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 24, 2024

Lawyers who ask “What business problems am I trying to solve, and where can AI assist with those problems?” will come out on top with AI. The post Lawyers: Take a Thoughtful Approach to AI If You Want to Lead the Pack appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Share Eight years after the Supreme Court blocked his execution so that it could consider a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol, the justices agreed on Monday to take up the case of Richard Glossip , who is seeking to set aside his conviction and death sentence. In an unusual twist, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond supported Glossip’s petition for review, telling the court that “justice would not be served by moving forward with a capital sentence that the State can no lo

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Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2024

Amnesty International reiterated its calls to stop the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. The date for execution has been set for January 25, 2024. In urging Alabama to cancel the execution, Justin Mazzola, a researcher at Amnesty International, stated: The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment, and we urge Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to use her clemency power to stop the execution of Kenneth Smith before it’s too late.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 23, 2024

The right wing of the Supreme Court is playing a dangerous game. The post Only 5 Supreme Court Justices Believe In The Supremacy Clause And That’s A Real Fricking Problem appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence—which can generate new content based on a prompt—has the potential to “dramatically improve the efficiency of a lawyer’s practice,” but it also…

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2024

AffiniPay , the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase , today announced the launch of AffiniPay IQ, its strategic initiative to embed generative artificial intelligence across all of its products and make AI a native component of legal professionals’ daily workflows.

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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

Law students and young lawyers from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Jacky-Long Mouthuy recently graduated from Maastricht University. He files this dispatch from Maastricht, Netherlands. The European Parliament last Thursday officially triggered a procedure under Article 7(2) TEU (Treaty on European Union) calling on the European Council to determine the existence of a serious and persistent breach by

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Above The Law

JANUARY 22, 2024

Are we playing the religious people get to ignore the laws game or not? The post Pastor Faces Charges For Giving The Homeless A Place To Sleep appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 26, 2024

Prosecutors are “quitting in droves,” while the offices that employ them are getting a fraction of the applications that they have in the past, according…

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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Philadelphia jury on Friday hit the makers of weedkiller Roundup with an astronomical $2 billion punitive damages verdict, along with $250 million in compensatory damages, in a case brought by a Pennsylvania man who claimed Monsanto failed to warn users that the product contained carcinogenic chemicals and contributed to his development of cancer.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

William Hibbitts is JURIST’s Deputy Editorial Director. He files this report from Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday in Ottawa that the Canadian government exceeded its authority and violated some protesters’ constitutional rights by invoking the federal Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests , which brought Canada’s capital to a standstill for three weeks.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 24, 2024

In its decision of 20 December 2023 (Case No. XII ZB 117/23), the German Federal Supreme Court has referred three questions to the CJEU relating to the interpretation of Art. 8 (a), (b) of the Rome III Regulation. The following is a convenience translation of the German press release: Facts of the Case: The spouses, German nationals, married in 1989.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their longstanding track record of anticompetitive behavior, price gouging, or nickel-and-diming their often captive customers with bogus, hidden fees. Though occasionally one of the two agencies does step in to try make a bare […] The post Cable Giants Insist That Forcing Them To Make Cancellations Easier Violates Their First Amendment Rights appeared first on Above t

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 21, 2024

Gray Robinson | The stress of a law practice is unrelenting — these practices can help you become more resilient. The post Becoming a Burnout-Proof Attorney: 5 Steps appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) has released a report about military airstrikes in Myanmar. Their research details the impact of these airstrikes on churches in Chin, Myanmar’s only majority Christian state. The report, released Tuesday, shows a correlation between areas that have been placed under martial law by the ruling military junta and are subject to airstrikes.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 25, 2024

The University of Antwerp has opened two vacancies for PhD research related to private international law. The first covers inter alia EU private international law, and will be supervised by prof. dr. Johan Meeusen and prof. dr. Mathieu Leloup. The four-year scholarship is sponsored by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The candidate will write a PhD on mutual trust and rule of law requirements in the field of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

The commute to the office really seems like a waste of time to associates these days -- especially since they know working remotely was so much more productive. The post Biglaw Associates Are Tired Of The ‘New Normal’ And Want More Remote Work appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 26, 2024

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Chantelle Jalland, a London-based managing director for digital investigations and discovery with J.S. Held, a global consulting company.

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Learn about a world of effective contract management and seamless teamwork across departments in this upcoming webinar from Cobblestone Software. You'll discover practical strategies and tips that legal professionals can use to streamline contract processes and enhance collaboration, making significant impact across legal and corporate departments. Join us as we show how you can supercharge contract processes, improve team communication, and take your contributions to the next level.

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