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OCTOBER 20, 2024

They raised serious concerns about McKinsey’s ties to the Chinese government and state-owned enterprises and questioned whether the firm should continue to be eligible for Department of Defense contracts. This push for scrutiny comes as McKinsey is reportedly restructuring its operations in China to minimize potential risks.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2025

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the UCC alongside an official online portal , marking a significant milestone in Indias legal landscape. The UCC governs the registration of marriages, divorces, and live-in relationships. The 740-page draft was presented in February 2024 and passed by the state assembly shortly thereafter.

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JUNE 14, 2023

The EU passed The Artificial Intelligence Act on Wednesday which is a draft law that establishes restrictions on the uses of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI Act comes at a time when nations across the world grapple with the governance of these highly innovative technologies.

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JUNE 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a second case involving the scope of the government’s ability to invoke state secret privilege and declined to hear a case challenging the male-only military draft on the basis of gender discrimination. When the court last reviewed the male-only draft rule in the 1981 decision Rostker v.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Britain’s Government Equalities Office unveiled draft proposals on Friday to ban conversion therapy for minors and vulnerable adults in England and Wales, seeking to prevent “coercive and abhorrent” practices that try to change sexual orientation or gender identity. The Equality Hub will prepare draft legislation by Spring 2022. .

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APRIL 14, 2024

Haiti’s government officially established a nine-member transitional presidential council on Friday, aiming to restore security in the gang-afflicted Caribbean nation. Despite the positive step towards transitional governance, significant challenges lie ahead. Haiti is a nation held hostage.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Egyptian government on Tuesday to revise the draft of the new asylum bill, known as the Law Regarding the Asylum of Foreigners (LRAF), and urged the government to consult with civil society and the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to ensure that the bill aligns with international standards.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2025

Myanmar’s military government officially enacted a cybersecurity law on Wednesday that regulates digital communication and penalizes various cyber crimes, according to a local newspaper that has publishedthe first two sections of the law. The legislation, dubbed Cybersecurity Law No.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2023

The groups cited numerous instances where the government of Armenia improperly restricted the use of social media sites like Tik Tok. The coalition also condemned the government’s decision to legitimize internet shutdowns, particularly given the state’s security threats from Azerbaijan.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) Wednesday published a draft of amendments to the Administrative Regulations on the Management of Mobile Internet Application Information Services issued in 2016. The draft contains 27 articles and places emphasis on data security, user privacy, and national security.

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APRIL 23, 2025

Human Rights Watch submitted recommendations on Tuesday to Panama’s Ministry of the Environment regarding a draft executive decree that would regulate national, sectoral, and municipal responses to climate change and adaptation, the biodiversity crisis, and the degradation of ecosystems.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The draft broadens the restrictions on freedom of expression. In a joint statement from Pakistani media organizations, the PFUJ condemned the government for enacting the legislation without consulting media and journalist groups. He stated that he would decide on the plea once the parties had presented their stance.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The Victorian government introduced a bill that would give pandemic management discretion to the state’s premier and health minister. The state never gave the Victoria Bar a draft, which is the traditional procedure. The bill would give the premier nearly full authority to declare a pandemic, with no limits to the duration.

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JURIST

APRIL 17, 2025

In Section 2, the definition of PVOs has been broadened to include trusts, legal persons and beneficial owners. It also inserts new sections that forbid PVOs from supporting or opposing any political party or candidate in a presidential, parliamentary or local government election.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

The Government of India introduced a new digital privacy bill in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament, on Thursday after withdrawing a similar privacy bill last year. A draft of the current bill was shared for consultation in December 2022.

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The Estrin Report

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The Legal Profession Can Be a Journey to Bigger and Better Opportunities By Chere B. Now, youve started circling Indeed and LinkedIn, reached out to legal recruiters and are quietly scanning job listings. Now, youve started circling Indeed and LinkedIn, reached out to legal recruiters and are quietly scanning job listings.

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JURIST

JUNE 23, 2021

After six months of deliberation, a panel of 12 independent legal experts from across the globe on Tuesday unveiled a working definition of “ecocide” that they hope will be adopted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). “Ecocide” would be the first new crime to be adopted into international criminal law since 1945.

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MARCH 9, 2024

The Hong Kong government released the new national security bill on Friday and sent it to the Legislative Council (LegCo) for deliberation. While the government has repeatedly emphasized that the bill has received support from the vast majority, controversies and disputes have followed the bill’s introduction.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

After the closing of the third block of hearings of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme earlier this month, it has been revealed that the Australian Government received numerous warnings that the Scheme was unlawful. The firm completed a draft report but was purportedly told by the Department that the report was no longer needed.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

For a recent Reinventing Professionals podcast, I talked with Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief , a platform that uses AI to improve the accuracy of legal writing by identifying how well a writer’s sentence is supported by the source document. Legal writing has really specific requirements. seed round.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has said that they are working on new Procedures to regulate salaries of civil servant employees in the country. This new Procedure designates salaries of the prime minister, his deputies, the intelligence department head, the administrative office of the prime minister, and other government officials.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules is a committee of federal judges, practicing lawyers, law professors, state chief justices and officials from federal legal organizations. The US Supreme Court established the committee to help draft federal rules of procedure, which govern court proceedings in US federal courts.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The complaint comes one year after the legal destruction of historically and culturally significant rock shelters by the mining company Rio Tinto in the Pilbara region of Western Australia (WA) that sparked protests across the nation. The state government had given approval to the mining company to detonate explosives on the site in 2013.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The rise of Generative AI and Agentic AI isnt just reshaping industries; its creating legal and ethical questions that demand attention. Imagine drafting a contract and, instead of starting from scratch, a tool like ChatGPT generates a well-structured template in seconds. Whos responsible when Agentic AI makes a mistake?

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JUNE 24, 2021

The Indian government on Wednesday has proposed a new set of amendments to Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules, 2020 in response to complaints of unfair trade practices in the Indian e-commerce ecosystem. The draft of new amendments is now open to public comments for 15 days.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

The Greek government submitted a bill to the country’s Hellenic Parliament Friday in an attempt to increase its territorial waters. The bill must now be passed by the Hellenic Parliament and will come into force upon publication in the government gazette. ” The Convention was created in 1982 and ratified by Greece in 1995.

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Knackly

APRIL 25, 2025

Woodpecker (now integrated into MyCase as Advanced Document Automation) was a go-to for simple legal document automation, especially if you worked out of Microsoft Word. Woodpecker is a legal document automation tool built to make drafting easier for legal professionals, especially solo practitioners and small to mid-sized practices.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The government has other options for land ownership reform. The government is currently drafting a land distribution act that will regulate land distribution in urban and semi-urban areas, as well as a communal act that promises to give security of tenure to those living in areas controlled by traditional leaders.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

They found that governments in Africa are abusing new technology and surveillance laws to violate citizens’ privacy rights. The report is the first comparative analysis of African legal frameworks on surveillance covering Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Sudan.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. What is a Government Paralegal?

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The fifth session of negotiations on a historic, legally binding global plastic pollution treaty concluded on Sunday, with countries agreeing to reconvene in 2025. The treaty process was initiated following Resolution 5/14 adopted in March 2022, which called for a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Sri Lanka Cabinet of Ministers has approved the drafting of two bills to promote cybersecurity as proposed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Technology. A draft bill is scrutinized by a sectoral oversight committee of the parliament before voting.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 16, 2025

Government agencies have a different pace than in-house corporate legal departments. Attorneys are already carrying the legal responsibility and pressure of the case. I’ll never forget walking into his office with a draft motion and asking him a question about it. Small firms function differently than large firms.

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JUNE 13, 2021

The Bundestag adopted the draft law by a large majority. The resulting final draft requires companies to act on specific incidents, and then only if they have substantiated knowledge of the abuse. The law introduces a shift to mandatory compliance with international norms on labor exploitation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Pederson told the press on Sunday that the co-chairs nominated by the government and the opposition have agreed to commence the constitutional reform process. The opposition and government each nominated 50 members, and civil society nominated the last 50 members.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After backlash against the Digital Security Act (DSA), which was criticised for containing ambiguous and overbroad provisions that allow authorities to police online space, the government pledged significant legal changes in response to concerns raised by human rights organisations.

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