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Germany passes law requiring corporate due diligence human rights, environment

JURIST

The German Parliament passed a law on Friday requiring large and medium-sized businesses to do their due diligence in combating human rights violations along their supply chain. The law introduces a shift to mandatory compliance with international norms on labor exploitation.

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When is a Confirmatory Trial “Underway” or Conducted with “Due Diligence” Enough for Accelerated Approval? FDA Explains Its New Authorities

FDA Law Blog

Valentine We recently blogged about a new December 2024 draft guidance about accelerated approval (the December 2024 draft guidance). FDAs withdrawal authority when a confirmatory trial is not conducted with due diligence was expanded to include that FDA could specify the conditions for a postapproval study.

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Time’s Up: Will Law Firms Say Goodbye To Billable Hour In The (Gen)AI Era?

Above The Law

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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Extension of deadline (to 10 January 2025) for Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development and Policy on the theme, “Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Africa”

Conflict of Laws

This is an area with limited scholarship in Africa, as most research has traditionally emphasized substantive laws, often neglecting the critical role of private international law in sustainable development. Interested researchers should consider themes such as the ones explored in Michaels/Ruiz Abou-Nigm/Van Loon (eds.)

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Everything You Need to Know About Billable Hours

Paralegal Bootcamp

I started my professional career working for law firms directly out of college. This includes attorneys, paralegals, and support staff in law firms where time-based billing reigns. If you’re not an owner of the law firm, you might be asking yourself why you should value billable hours. A law firm is a business.

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HRW: Saudi Arabia world cup bid promotes labor abuse against migrant workers

JURIST

The law firm that drafted it worked exclusively with national government officials. ” Therefore, HRW called on FIFA not to vote in favor of Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup next December until the country demonstrates “ proper human rights due diligence” and a serious commitment to labor rights.

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So You Want to Be an Adjunct Law Professor? 6 Lessons from My Experience

Attorney at Work

A surprisingly large number of lawyers, judged from my anecdotal experience, are interested in teaching a law school class. I just wrapped up my whirlwind of a first semester as an adjunct law professor teaching Contract Drafting at the University of Richmond School of Law. But not money — more about that below.).

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