Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Trends to Watch in 2022. We are seeing several trends in the practice of law and coinciding legal technology currents that will impact law firms in 2022. As business clients deploy new technology to manage litigation, contracts and communications, they will prefer working with equally tech-focused outside counsel.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Former member of the UK conservative party Baroness Michelle Mone admitted in an interview with BBC published on Sunday that she stands to benefit from millions of pounds of profit received by personal protective equipment (PPE) company PPE Medpro, which had a contract with the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Commercial litigation case filings have declined steadily throughout the last ten years to the lowest number in a decade, while the total amount of damages awarded each year has remained steady.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2023

The Russian State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, voted on Wednesday to give its preliminary support t0 legislation that will permit its army to sign contracts with suspects or criminal convicts to take part in the war in Ukraine. However, there are exceptions to the proposed legislation.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract , a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. Laura Frederick thinks so.

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Above The Law

JUNE 7, 2022

The post If Legal Ops Is All About Contracts, What Are All These eDiscovery Firms Doing Here? New opportunities abound. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 16, 2022

The Center for Law, Economics and Policy Studies (CEDEP) is organising an online course on Choice of Law, International Contracts and the Hague Principles. The course will officially begin on Tuesday 22 March 2022, with weekly sessions (a total of 9) to be released on Tuesdays (which may be supplemented with additional lessons in May).

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LawSites

MAY 18, 2022

The law practice management company Clio today introduced an offer to buy lawyers out of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switch to Clio’s platform. Clio said it will help cover the remaining cost of the contract with the competitor by providing a credit of up to six months of free Clio software.

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Above The Law

MAY 11, 2022

The post With CLM, The Pre-Sign/Post-Sign Contract Dichotomy May Have Outlived Its Usefulness appeared first on Above the Law. Evisort has a small philosophical shift that might make a big difference.

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Cenza

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Looking forward to seeing you all at Legal Geek 2022, London! The post Legal Geek 2022: where innovation and legal tech converge appeared first on Cenza. As a managed legal services provider supporting the proliferation of legal tech innovation, this event is an opportunity for us to meet innovators and learn what’s on the horizon.

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Law 360

JULY 15, 2022

Federal courts will consider several cases in the second half of 2022 that could have major impacts on government contractors, addressing issues such as the limits of the government's procurement authority and ability to dismiss whistleblower False Claims Act cases.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The top three categories of deals, based on numbers of deals, were e-discovery, practice management and contract tech. “The most concerning insight here are the similarities between popularity of e-discovery and contract tech. . A total dollar value of deals of $59.1 The average deal value was $65 million.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Lawyers for California-based SourceAudio — a tech platform for digital asset management and monetization — claimed that the company had struck a deal in March 2022 to sell itself to […] The post Music Mondays: Utopia Music Sued for $37M for Breach of Contract appeared first on THE HOLLYWOOD LAWYER.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In October 2022, the UN Special Rapporteur warned of the potential resumption of forceful repatriation. The Contracting States, including China, are obliged not to expel refugees to any places that would subject them to further threats to their life or freedom.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2023

The document details that contracting parties agree to have no more than: 20,000 tanks; 20,000 units of artillery; 30,000 armoured combat vehicles; 6,800 combat aircraft; 2,000 attack helicopters. Russia previously halted its participation in this Treaty back in 2007, but it remained a party to the agreement until now.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2023

They are seeking the Slovak Minister of Transport Jozef Raz and representatives of the EU and European Commission (EC) to resolve the issue by reevaluating their contract with Ukraine. The EU-Ukraine agreement in dispute (DCFTA) was signed in June 2022 and extends to June 2024.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The legal industry's continued remote work needs during the pandemic have fueled growth of contract lifecycle management providers, but to continue access to the platforms they have come to rely on, businesses should look out for the CLM mergers that are likely to occur in 2022, says Naseeha Machingal at LegalEase Solutions.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 12, 2022

Before you sign any contract with a personal injury lawyer, discuss the attorney's fees.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 3, 2023

The MTA increased the presence of security contractors in the subway system throughout 2022. Apprehended by NYPD officers, they have been charged with assault, harassment and disorderly conduct.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The second lawmaker was alleged to have attempted to bribe a reconstruction official in August with around $100,000 in order to secure contracts for his construction company. million contract reconstructing a destroyed bridge in Ukraine. In 2022, Transparency International ranked Ukraine 116 out of 180 in terms of corruption.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2024

According to RIA Novosti, it was alleged that Hubbard signed a $1,000-per-month contract with the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces in February 2022. The defendant is retired and reportedly arrived in Ukraine in 2014 and remained there. Hubbard is set to remain in pre-trial detention until March 25.

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LawSites

AUGUST 22, 2024

Spellbook, the company that introduced the first generative AI copilot for contract drafting and review in 2022, today launched what it says is the first AI agent for law, capable of planning and executing complex, multi-step workflows.

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Cenza

OCTOBER 7, 2022

With the success experienced in the previous editions and enormous support at the annual CLOC Global Institute, held in Las Vegas post the pandemic, CLOC EMEA Summit 2022 is slated to be held in London this year. The post Proliferating Legal Tech Innovation with CLOC EMEA Summit 2022, London appeared first on Cenza.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

In October 2022, Murillo pleaded guilty to accepting at least $532,000 in bribes from a Florida-based company in exchange for assisting the company in securing a $5.6 million contract with the Bolivian defence ministry in 2019. “Justice has spoken in the United States.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2024

.” This includes those who have been dismissed for reaching the age limit, expiration of their military contract and health reasons. In September 2022, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan warned their citizens against participating in hostilities in foreign states and reiterated that there might be criminal sanctions for such an act.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

According to Article 8 (2) and (4) of the Rome I Regulation , the individual employment contract is generally governed by the law of the country where the employee performed their work, meaning that Syrian law would apply in this scenario.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Slowly but surely” may be an apt phrase to describe the results from the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report covering Litigation Technology & E-Discovery. The post TechReport 2022: Litigation & TAR appeared first on Law Technology Today. The average age of all respondents is 55 with 82% over the age of 40.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Kolomoisky controlled Ukrtatnfta, a Ukrainian oil refining company, before it was seized by the government after missing taxes amounting to over $80million in 2022. The SBU said that Kolomoisky is alleged to have laundered over half a billion Ukrainian gryvna between 2013 and 2020 by taking advantage of the banks he has control over.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 5, 2021

On 25th November 2021, the English Law Commission published its Advice to Government on smart legal contracts. The term ‘smart legal contracts’ is explained at paragraph 2.11 The term ‘smart legal contracts’ is explained at paragraph 2.11

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Law 360

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Commercial contracts litigation has slowed down considerably in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new case filings reaching their lowest level in a decade last year before beginning to rebound in 2023, following a brief but dramatic spike in 2020, according to a new report Thursday.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So says the 2022 edition of The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer , a survey report that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. Those in legal departments listed: legal matter management, contract management software and contract analytics; document management; cybersecurity and encryption tools; e-signature tools, and entity management.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

Stations have six months to review existing contracts for the sale of program time to determine if there is foreign-government involvement and to come into compliance with the disclosure requirements. The new rules are now effective for all new or updated leases of program time.

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LawSites

APRIL 24, 2023

Last December, LegalOn , one of Japan’s largest providers of AI contract review technology to corporations and law firms, announced its expansion into the U.S. and as it does, it is releasing a new feature, AI Revise, which it says is the “first AI contract editing tool enhanced by expert legal knowledge.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The demonstration marked 500 days since President Vladimir Putin in September 2022 ordered the “partial mobilisation” of up to 300,000 military reservists in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine. The campaign group that organised the demonstration was the Way Home.

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The Process Street

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Thomas Forstner is the Head of People & Talent at Juro – a contract management platform on a mission to help the world agree more – where he is building a human-centric, scalable People & Talent function from the ground up. There are ton of metrics you could measure as a People and Talent lead at a fast-growth company.

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LawSites

MARCH 20, 2024

In its write-up, How Casetext is assigning every attorney an AI co-counsel , Fast Company says: “CoCounsel can generate — at a blazing speed — legal research memos, review thousands of documents to answer questions during discovery, and find specific contract items in vast databases of information.”

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