LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Contracts case filings over the last three years showed a slight but steady increase through the pandemic, while franchise case filings fell sharply and damages awarded continued to climb.

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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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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

WHAT IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL? A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. Draft pleadings and discovery.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LegalReader

JULY 31, 2021

Attorneys for the actress claim that Disney violated the terms of Johansson's contract with Marvel by releasing "Black Widow" on Disney+ the same day the film went to theater.

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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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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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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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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Although neither party to the contract is from New York, the insurance contract selected New York law, as these contracts typically do. The contract calls for New York law, so the justices have to decide whether federal courts should respect that contract.

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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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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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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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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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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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CaseFleet

MAY 15, 2024

Jason Shinn has 20 years of experience as an employment litigator. Today, the majority of his time is spent in litigation, consulting, and advising — particularly on non-compete trade secret disputes, commercial litigation, contract disputes, and employment discrimination.

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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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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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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Machine learning algorithms are enabling data-driven decisions, offering predictive analytics that can forecast case outcomes, estimate settlement values, and even suggest optimal litigation strategies. This level of insight was once the domain of the most experienced attorneys, but now it’s available at the click of a button.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that 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. Contract policy compliance. Extract data from contracts.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Explicit jurisdiction clauses offer cross-border litigants the benefit of predictability by allowing them to anticipate where disputes arising from their commercial transactions will be resolved. Therefore, our paper provides the first comparative global perspective of the enforcement of implied jurisdiction in international contracts.

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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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