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India Supreme Court issues notice in petition challenging bar exam rules

JURIST

It is typically conducted by the Bar Council twice a year to test the candidates’ knowledge on various substantive and procedural la w such as constitutional law, administrative law, the Indian Penal Code, criminal and civil procedure, evidence, public interest litigation, and professional ethics.

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What Really is the Distinction In between Paralegal and a Litigator?

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Both are required to conduct extensive study and draught court documentation for the matter they are working on. A paralegal’s primary responsibility is case preparation, which includes gathering information about a case, preparing reports, filing and organizing relevant documentation, and scheduling interviews and depositions.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

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Meet Our Guest Expert Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), the world’s leading organization for training and certification in e-discovery. We’ve got our training and certification programs. Discover where your litigation career path can take you.

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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

Law 360

About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

LawSites

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and 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, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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Guest Post: How Santa Clara Law Graduates Students with a ‘Tech Edge’

LawSites

In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. Tech Edge JD students begin their training before law school even starts. Mentor interaction is flexible and student-driven.

Bar Exam 119
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Q&A With Heather Stevenson: A Less Traditional Path

Attorney at Work

Stevenson: I began my career as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. It was the type of litigation that gets covered in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. I did my fair share of document review, as all litigation associates did at the time. The cases I worked on were huge.

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