Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Then associates or paralegals spend hours reading 30, 40, 50 pages to review new contracts according to the most basic criteria. For years, CobbleStone Software has offered contract lifecycle management systems to help firms streamline their intake and review process, and the company was an early adopter of AI technologies.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tower Legal CEO Leslie Firtell says contract staffing will grow in importance this year. The post Contract Staffing: 3 Ways ALSPs Can Support Your Law Firm in Uncertain Times appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Knowable, a legal technology company specializing in helping organizations bring order and organization to their executed agreements, has announced Ask Knowable, a suite of generative AI-powered tools aimed at transforming how legal teams interact with and understand what is in their contracts.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2023

The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) allows federal courts to enforce private arbitration agreements commonly found in employment contracts. These agreements are included in the standard contract Uber drivers agree to. This opinion is consistent with a 2021 ruling from the Ninth Circuit that reached the same decision.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, the Commission signed contracts with major pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK, Johnson & Johnson, BioNTech-Pfizer, CureVac, Moderna, and Novavax. The post EU court orders increased transparency in COVID-19 vaccine contracts appeared first on JURIST - News. These agreements, valued at €2.7

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2025

Amongst other things, the CISG application does not apply to contracts formed by, inter-alia, auctions under Art. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court had to determine if the bidding process in a tender contract was the same as an auction. However, unlike an auction, in a tender contract, it is the sellers that bid, not the buyers.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

To understand the challenges legal teams face, our friends at LegalOn surveyed 286 GCs, in-house counsels, contract managers, and legal operations professionals to understand the challenges legal teams face. Legal teams spent an average of 188 working days on contract review last year. The post Overwhelmed By Contracts?

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Above The Law

MARCH 25, 2025

In Conflicts, Contracts & Costs: Tuning Up Your Office Systems, Client Relationships & Operating Documents, well dive into the strategic implications of adapting ethical practices to a distributed environment. Remote and hybrid work models pose challenges for law firms. But they also offer new opportunities.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The companies committed to maintaining the workers’ accommodation in hotels until their employment contracts were terminated. BYD Brazil issued a statement announcing the termination of its contract with Jinjiang. The companies are cooperating with authorities, including providing documents and housing details.

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LawSites

JANUARY 16, 2025

LexCheck, a legal technology company specializing in contract review, is launching a new AI-powered contract analysis tool that aims to solve two persistent challenges in contract technology: the ability to handle complex agreements beyond routine contracts such as NDAs, and the creation and maintenance of contract playbooks.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The memo mandates an assessment of "the essentiality of contracts. for the purpose of terminating or descoping contracts for activities that are not essential for the Department to fulfill its statutory purposes."

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LawSites

JANUARY 7, 2025

“We created Playbooks […]

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2025

In return, the former minister “used her influence to steer lucrative oil contracts” in favor of companies owned by the businessmen. The funds were seized under the US Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which uncovered a conspiracy run by Nigerian businessmen who paid bribes to Alison-Madueke.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

When it comes to contract negotiations, lawyers often find themselves spending countless hours haggling over standard agreements such as NDAs and SaaS contracts, with both sides often saying more or less the same thing, but in different words. What if there was a better way?

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LawSites

JANUARY 21, 2025

LegalOn Technologies today released My Playbooks, a new feature that enables legal teams to customize the platform’s AI contract review system according to their internal standards and preferred language.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 5, 2024

“Uber’s Consumer Contract Faces Hostile Massachusetts High Court; Company claims pop-up arbitration agreement is enforceable; Victim of car crash asks court to green light $60 million lawsuit”: Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has this report. Huston argued the appeal for Uber; Matthew W.H. Wessler argued for the plaintiff-appellee.

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Above The Law

MARCH 12, 2025

In Conflicts, Contracts & Costs: Tuning Up Your Office Systems, Client Relationships & Operating Documents, well dive into the strategic implications of adapting ethical practices to a distributed environment. This program is presented by Affinipay.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . In many cases, this meant that they, like their law firm counterparts, hired contract attorneys to fill in gaps, provide niche expertise and keep costs in check. Here are some lessons they learned.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In response to these concerns, HRW fielded a series of suggestions to government and private sector agencies in Saudi Arabia and the home countries of migrant workers.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Another lawyer who saw an opportunity and swiftly capitalized on it is Laura Frederick of Laura Frederick Law, a boutique firm that helps businesses with vendor contracts. O]ne day I just started posting my advice on contracts,” Frederick says in a LinkedIn post on her profile. Creative Writing With J.W.

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LegalSifter

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As Exos grew, managing contracts across multiple stakeholders became increasingly complex. To improve efficiency and accuracy in contract operations, Exos partnered with LegalSifter. The legal team faced slow, manual processes that diverted time from higher-priority work.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In-house legal departments often struggle with a common challenge: how to efficiently review and negotiate the constant flow of routine contracts without sacrificing quality or consistency.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2025

According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Kirchner and De Vido abused their offices by orchestrating multiple bribery schemes involving public works contracts, stealing millions of dollars from the Argentine government. .” The entry ban affects both Kirchner and De Vido and their immediate families.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Abstract Australia adopted the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) – a treaty intended to harmonise cross-border sale of goods law – in 1989. Join us online tomorrow for a free seminar on the CISG in Australia, delivered by Dr Benjamin Hayward.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention , contracting states must guarantee people seeking asylum the right not to be punished, per Article 31 , and non-refoulment per Article 33.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on Wednesday that provide exemptions from criminal liability for individuals in the Russian Federation who have contracted for military service or have been mobilized. The State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, approved the bills in September.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2025

Rich Kniseley said the current plan is to set up a new Space Force working capital fund for buying commercial SATCOM, initially worth about $120 million, on Oct.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2023

This was shortly before his company was awarded several high-profile government contracts to operate in Papua New Guinea. Matheson has a career that has been marked with controversy in Australia. He was previously found guilty of misleading business partners, forcing him out of Australian business.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

825 ), passed Monday by the US House of Representatives, would prohibit the US federal government from contracting with any person or entity that conducts business operations with Venezuelan authorities not recognized as legitimate by the US. ” The BOLIVAR Act ( H.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Isidores contract would turn the school into a surrogate of the State, noting that Oklahomas legislature had labeled the charter schools public. Supreme Courts cases establishing a right to the free exercise of religion by transmuting St. Isidore into an arm of the government: It reasoned that excluding St.

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