Paralegal.edu

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On February 26, 2022, at 10:00 AM Central, Center for Advanced Legal Studies will hold its 69th Commencement Ceremony for graduates of its paralegal programs. Sepi has over 20 years of legal and administrative experience with a current focus primarily on personal injury law and related torts. Sepi is involved in all phases of a case.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 26, 2022

As lawyers embrace remote work and resist returning to the office full time, many law firms wonder what to do with their empty offices. As of early April 2022, the average office population in major U.S. Should your law firm do the same? The post Should You Sublet Office Space in Your Law Firm? First Things First.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. This trend toward the increasing technology in law is echoed by industry analysts. Must law firms keep pace with their clients’ technology efforts? Trends to Watch in 2022.

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JURIST

APRIL 8, 2024

US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced on Sunday draft legislation to “establish a national data privacy and security standard.” Currently, there is no federal data privacy law protecting consumers or a law that outlines an enforcement mechanism for data breaches.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Friday announced draft provisions and regulations for content providers who alter facial and voice data, the country’s latest effort to combat deepfakes , or videos and other visual technologies that have been altered in order to disseminate false accusations and spread misinformation.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T ü rk Wednesday criticised a British draft law that would require the deportation of anyone arriving in the UK by small boats. T ü rk said he was “deeply concerned” at the legislation and argued that it would violate international law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia. On Tuesday, September 5, the situation in Latvia regarding the new Latvian Immigration Law took a significant turn. These amendments have been drafted, and the committee within the Saeima [Latvian legislature] is expediting their submission.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ("MeitY") released the draft National Data Governance Framework Policy (the "Policy") on 26th May 2022, inviting the public to provide feedback and comments on the same.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2023

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law on Monday which eliminates book bans, requiring public libraries in the state to ensure they offer a diverse range of materials. ” The post Illinois governor signs law prohibiting book bans in public libraries appeared first on JURIST - News.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Valentine We recently blogged about a new December 2024 draft guidance about accelerated approval (the December 2024 draft guidance). These draft guidances also discuss how the Agency plans to interpret whether such a study needs to be underway at the time of approval and, if so, whether it is underway. Raver & James E.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2024

Freedom of Russia is a legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed in March 2022 from former members of the Russian Armed Forces and other Russians—and some Belarusians—who defected to Ukraine to protect it from Russian invasion during the Russian-Ukrainian war. ” The draft law proposes to regulate Telegram within Ukraine.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills into law on Tuesday, which collectively aim to regulate election-related content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). If a platform does not comply with this law, state officials can seek injunctive relief. These three laws build off AB 730 and other existing laws.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Thailand’s progressive opposition party, the Move Forward Party submitted on Thursday a draft bill to Parliament. The draft bill presented to Parliament aims to extend amnesty coverage to all political demonstrations held since 2006, encompassing a period marked by intermittent turbulence.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday signed into law the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Act, 2022, thereby amending the Computer Misuse Act, of 2011. The Act of Parliament, passed on September 8, 2022, has been criticized for targeting critical voices online.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase , the companies announced today. million seed round. .

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Russian law enforcement detained at least two dozen people Saturday at a protest in Moscow, as wives and relatives of Russian service members fighting in Ukraine advocated for their return. Wives and relatives of the reservists mobilised in 2022 have been campaigning for them to be discharged and replaced with contract soldiers.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Belgium document automation company ClauseBase has launched a major expansion of its product to add new capabilities for clause extraction, AI-powered document review, and automated proofreading, all with the goal of providing an all-in-one platform, within Microsoft Word, for contract drafting, reviewing and negotiating.

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JURIST

JULY 25, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 13 other human rights organizations such as Access Now and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), called on the Jordanian government on Monday to withdraw a proposed cybercrime law currently under discussion in Parliament. Article 24 increases online censorship and hinders free expression.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament, approved the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activities of Religious Organizations in Ukraine (No. Ukraine has been working to cut down Russia’s influence since it invaded Crimea in 2014 and Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

Ever since the withdrawal of previous draft laws on domestic violence three years ago, the inadequacies in the remedial measures in this area are being attempted to be corrected by two new draft laws that offer greater protections to women. However, there is no mention of domestic violence as a standalone offense.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It is still in draft form and much of the wording is in square brackets, indicating that it has not yet been agreed amongst the parties. But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2023

A group of human rights organizations on Saturday, wrote an open letter urging top Armenian officals to oppose a proposed law that would restrict access to internet services, thus limiting the population’s freedom of expression.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Gustavo Cerqueira and Hugues Fulchiron have recently edited a new volume (in French) on the appliation of foreign law in the draft code of French private international law (Le droit étranger dans le projet de code de droit international privé – Connaissance et applicationdroit).

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JURIST

AUGUST 5, 2023

The last iteration of the bill, known as the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 , was withdrawn by Parliament in August 2022, possibly because a Joint Parliamentary Committee Report suggested 81 amendments to the previous bill. A draft of the current bill was shared for consultation in December 2022.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

Ukraine’s State Border Service Friday reported 12,000 men have tried to illegally leave the country with 15 casualties following the imposition of martial law and general mobilization orders in response to the Russian invasion. 950 people have been charged with falsification of documents, evasion of the draft and illegal transportation.

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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. When I first received their search, the hiring requirements included 5-10 years of litigation paralegal experience, actual trial experience, ability to handle legal research, drafting and a whole host of other higher-level assignments.

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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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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pending the creation of the new law, Sri Lanka has created the Secretariat for the Truth and Reconciliation Mechanism to push to ensure the commission is successfully established. The move came after the Parliament appointed a sub-committee to oversee the matter in October 2022.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2024

Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre published a report on Wednesday finding that the ability to protest in Australia has been eroded by anti-protest legislation over the last two decades. Laws which do burden this freedom may still be constitutionally valid if they are proportionate to achieving a legitimate legislative objective.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2024

Laws criminalizing coercive control came into force in New South Wales (NSW), Australia on Monday. Section 54D of the NSW’s Crimes Act 1900 criminalizes coercive conduct and abusive behavior against intimate partners by attaching a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment upon conviction.

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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2023

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Tuesday released a draft law detailing new regulations for providers of artificial intelligence (AI) products. These legal provisions follow a recent increase in use of AI chatbots and image generators such as ChatGPT, a widely used chatbot created by Open-AI in November 2022.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The new regulations titled “ Measures for the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services ” were jointly drafted by five departments within the Chinese government and will be effective as of March 1, 2022.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The FCC has released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), available here , proposing to update the FCC’s rules for full power TV and Class A TV stations. The FCC still has the option of petitioning by October 11, 2022 the Supreme Court to review the D.C. For more details about this case, see our Broadcast Law Blog here.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

24, 2022) the Court considered the permissible extent of attorney participation in the preparation of an expert report. Rather, Munchkin says TOMY’s counsel drafted the opinion and Darley signed it. In Munchkin, Inc. Tomy International, Inc., 1-18-cv-06337 (NDIL May.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Gone are the days when a law firm might only have a secondary income from a related business, such as a title company. Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors. Creative Writing With J.W.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2022

The Council of Ministers of Poland adopted a draft law Monday to provide z?8 ” The law also includes provisions for refugee access to healthcare, work, family benefits, and education. 8 billion (US $1.75 billion) to Ukrainian refugees. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) reported Tuesday that approximately 2.2

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2023

As part of the UNIDROIT Project on Digital Assets and Private Law , UNIDROIT has launched a Public Consultation to solicit comments and feedback on a set of Draft Principles and Commentary which have been prepared by its Working Group over the course of 7 sessions between 2020-2022.

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