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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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2022

For those litigation paralegals who embrace it and learn everything they can about it, eDiscovery matters and has been a game-changer for their careers. In fact, I’m also hosting a free masterclass next week on it because of how important eDiscovery is to litigation paralegal careers. eDiscovery is not a bad word. But not very many.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The US Court of Federal Claims on Thursday ruled against Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in a lawsuit contesting NASA’s decision to award a lucrative contract to rival SpaceX. NASA awarded SpaceX the contract to develop the agency’s Human Landing System in April. The contract, worth $2.9

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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. Many Years and Much Litigation. When asked to describe the type of attorney respondents mostly closely identified with, 46% stated they were “primarily litigation.”

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

The judge also let stand a ROSS counterclaim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits “every contract … or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce.” However, the judge did not accept a second antitrust theory asserted by ROSS — that TR had engaged in anticompetitive conduct by pursuing sham litigation.

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Paralegal.edu

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In over 40 years as an attorney, his practice areas included civil litigation, employment, insurance defense, contracts, and business law. In addition to the private practice of law, he has worked for both an insurance defense litigation firm and corporate law departments. The commencement address will be presented by Larry D.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In California State court, the discovery process plays a crucial role in litigation, serving the purpose of ensuring fairness, facilitating the exchange of information, and promoting efficient case resolution. This includes contracts, emails, medical records, and more. The requesting party can inspect and copy these materials.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. Similarly, law firms are finding success by focusing on a particular industry or area of law, such as real estate, environmental law, immigration, civil litigation or a host of other specialties.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. Artificial intelligence tools have become prevalent in legal practice, particularly in eDiscovery. Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. AI Hesitation.

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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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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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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States.

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Sterno

APRIL 1, 2025

The legal profession is experiencing a technological transformation unlike any in its history, with artificial intelligence (AI) now capable of drafting documents, analyzing case law, reviewing contracts, and even predicting litigation outcomes.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 7, 2021

Litigation Support Analyst. Contracts Administrator. Maybe you’ve been a litigation paralegal for several years (or corporate paralegal, real estate paralegal…fill in any practice area here) and you’re looking for a career change. Are you a litigation paralegal who enjoys networking and sales conversations?

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

The FAA states that arbitration agreements in specific contracts are valid, irrevocable, and enforceable. Moriana’s employment contract contained a mandatory arbitration agreement. Moriana’s employment contract contained a mandatory arbitration agreement.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2024

TermScout , an AI contract review company, has launched a first-of-its-kind AI marketplace where lawyers and other contracting experts can build and sell their own contract review AIs, developed based on their unique expertise. In effect, users can get an expert review of a contract with just a few clicks.

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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. She practises in international litigation, arbitration and private international law.

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Law 360

AUGUST 25, 2023

The past week in London has seen motorsport team McLaren start its engines in a claim to enforce a contract with driver Alex Palou, a senior Axiom Ince partner challenge his SRA suspension, and AstraZeneca face a product liability claim over COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As law students, few litigators imagined themselves transitioning into project management roles after passing the bar. Litigators rarely receive formal training in project management, but this does not mean they do not do project management. An Accidental Project Manager. How can Trellis help you achieve better results for clients?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. I use a pre-litigation checklist for new legal assistants in our personal injury practice. In that moment it occurred to me I had gravely miscalculated my training and mentoring methods.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

As an increasing number of parties litigate “ climate washing ” claims related to the use of carbon offsets, as well as other issues related to the creation, sale, marketing, and use of offsets and carbon credits, the Sabin Center has decided to expand our U.S. The Sabin Center will continue to maintain this new case category in the U.S.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Perhaps the biggest + of the new additions, however, is the full integration of Lexis contract lifecycle management system into CounselLinks Enterprise Legal Management solution. If you drill down on the in-progress contracts, youll find numerous metrics. CounselLink+ does also support the traditional redline method.)

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Alternative legal service provider Axiom announced Tuesday it is launching two new litigation services for large-scale businesses and smaller operations offering lower-cost options for dealing with contract issues, unpaid invoices and other routine business disputes.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

it's important to remember that complex litigation produces vast amounts of data. Contract Management Systems Contract management systems streamline entire contract lifecycles from their creation to their execution and eventual storage in one easily accessible location. This keeps everything accurate and documented.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2022

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Thursday agreed to pay a $56 million settlement to the families of veterans who contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in 2020. The estates of deceased veterans would receive a minimum of $400,000 and those who contracted and survived would receive a minimum of $10,000.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the readers who decided to continue past my opening paragraph, Great Lakes Insurance falls within the admiralty power of the federal courts, which authorizes the federal judiciary to articulate a federal common law for maritime contracts. Great Lakes Insurance involves a maritime insurance contract.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

That someone is usually not a law firm partner whos also handling litigation strategy, client management, and wondering if their 2020 home office deduction is finally coming back to haunt them. “Then the CLO has got this plethora of tech vendors.” That generalized expertise in technology transcends eDiscovery.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A word to the wise: if you absolutely have to be out of the office no later than 5, either to pick up the kids at daycare or something else that’s not flexible with time – do NOT choose the litigation practice area. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Back when I used to work in a law firm, I regularly worked 60-hour weeks.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

As business clients deploy new technology to manage litigation, contracts and communications, they will prefer working with equally tech-focused outside counsel. Document automation software provides a centralized process of producing agreements, motions, pleading, contracts and other legal documents.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 27, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? If not, I can call that staffing agency to get a contract attorney to help out. Here are 8 mindsets that could be hurting your career.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2025

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority including a look at widespread antitrust litigation surrounding the National Association of Realtors broker rules, the role contracts may play in combating a trade war, and the implications for real estate if casinos come to the Lone Star State.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

As a trial lawyer handling environmental class action cases, he grew frustrated with inefficiencies in serving documents — a process that eats into time and resources at the earliest stages of litigation. For pro se litigants, its often a bewildering and insurmountable hurdle. But it wasnt just about solving logistical problems.

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