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Fast Company’s List of World’s 606 Most Innovative Companies Includes Four from Legal Tech

LawSites

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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The Process of Buying or Selling a Business: A First-Time Seller’s Guide to Due Diligence

Strictly Business

This meticulous review of your business, from contracts to customer lists, is called due diligence. Due diligence allows the buyer to uncover risks when buying a business. Contracts with customers and vendors. You should also have your deal counsel conduct an initial review of your business and legal records.

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NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS FOR 2024

JayS.Rothman&Associates

SB 699 voids any contract that restricts an employee from engagement in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind, or a noncompete agreement. This would prohibit an employer from seeking to enforce a noncompete agreement, regardless of where or when the contract was signed.

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Pandemic Accelerated Tech’s Importance, But Firms Remain Poorly Prepared for Tech Future, Survey Says

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and Europe working in law firms, legal departments and business services firms. As for law firms, they say they are accelerating initiatives to improve efficiency, productivity and client services. The survey looked at the impact of the pandemic on the business of law and found that it was uneven. Contract management.

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The Process of Buying or Selling a Business: A First-Time Buyer’s Guide to Due Diligence

Strictly Business

Business Due Diligence – Due diligence requests target the seller’s operational, commercial, and financial performance. Customer and vendor contracts, including contracts for products and services sold by the seller and contracts for products and services purchased by the seller.

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Prevailing wage law for private workers employed on certain “public works” construed broadly

At the Lectern

Barrett Business Services Inc. broadly interprets one statutory definition of certain types of those projects for purposes of a requirement that minimum wages be paid to non-public employees working under contract on “public works.”

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Divided Supreme Court limits prevailing-wage-for-public-works requirement

At the Lectern

Answering questions referred by the Ninth Circuit under rule 8.548 in two separate cases, the Supreme Court today limits the scope of statutes that guarantee a prevailing wage for non-public employees working under contract on “public works.” Barrett Business Services (2021) 11 Cal.5th In Busker v. Wabtec Corp. ,

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