Attorney at Work
AUGUST 12, 2024
Sharpening your social awareness skills will better equip you to forge meaningful connections, inspire trust and achieve favorable outcomes. The post Reading the Room: Mastering Social Awareness as a Lawyer appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
JURIST
AUGUST 12, 2024
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday sentenced California resident David Nicholas Dempsey to 20 years imprisonment for attacking police in the course of rioting at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On September 9, 2021, Dempsey was indicted on 11 counts of crimes involving disruptive conduct in a restricted building, obstructing official proceedings and attacking police.
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HowAppealing
AUGUST 12, 2024
“The Parties Where Volunteers Pack Abortion Pills for Red-State Women; Blue-state professionals and retirees increasingly gather to help strangers evade laws against the procedure, prepping boxes for mailing”: Scott Calvert of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
JURIST
AUGUST 12, 2024
The Director-General of Security of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Mike Burgess disclosed that the organisation discovered numerous states interfering with Australia’s diaspora communities during an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Sunday. The interview follows the recent raise of the terror threat level in Australia from “possible” to “probable”, categorising Australia as having a 50 percent or greater chance
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HowAppealing
AUGUST 12, 2024
“JD Vance’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in the Making; Vance’s proposal to gut the federal workforce is likely unlawful and unworkable; But despite his bluster about defying the Supreme Court, that might not be necessary”: Ankush Khardori has this essay online at Politico Magazine.
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HowAppealing
AUGUST 12, 2024
“State of the Uterus: Two Years After the End of Roe.” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
Support for Harris starts at the top. The post Kamala Harris’s (Not So Secret) Weapon? Paul Weiss. appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 12, 2024
“Wisconsin Capitol Police decline to investigate leak of state Supreme Court abortion order”: Scott Bauer of The Associated Press has this report.
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2024
It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.
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HowAppealing
AUGUST 12, 2024
“Divorced couple’s fight over IVF-created embryos heads to Ohio Supreme Court”: Laura A. Bischoff of The Columbus Dispatch has this report.
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
The in-house legal talent market seems to be cooling. The post For The First Time In A While, General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer Pay Is Down appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2024
UniCourt, a company that provides access to litigation data and analytics, today launched into beta a first-of-its-kind product that combines LLMs and APIs to allow its customers – which include law firms, insurers, legal tech companies, and others – to extract any data points they need from UniCourt’s collection of over 1 billion dockets and […]
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
ILTACON attendees and legal tech watchers: Here's a rundown of what's set for today in Nashville. The post Welcome To ILTACON 2024! A Day For Innovation, Insight, And Entertainment appeared first on Above the Law.
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A Synergistic Approach to eDiscovery In the space of eDiscovery, the convergence of document summarization, sentiment analysis, and chatbots represents a significant change in how legal professionals navigate and manage electronic information. These technologies not only expedite the review process but also empower legal teams with deeper insights into the emotional context and key information within electronic documents.
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2024
Aderant, a provider of business management software to larger law firms, today introduced a product designed to help law firms better allocate work among their associates. Called viAllocate, the product helps law firms maximize billable utilization, balance associate workloads, and improve operational efficiency and profitability, Aderant says.
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
He also got a warning, which, I guess is something? The post Biglaw Partner Banned From Drinking Alcohol At Firm Events After Allegations He Groped A Junior Colleague appeared first on Above the Law.
At the Lectern
AUGUST 12, 2024
The California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law will present an all-day conference on the California Supreme Court. Participating will be former Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, current Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, Justices Carol Corrigan, Leondra Kruger, Joshua Groban, and Kelli Evans, Court of Appeal Justices Daniel Bromberg and Danny Chou, Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey Sutton, and Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
Hey, you want to see a house of cards crumble? The post Woody Is Back In The Hot Seat & Credibility Is Rapidly Burning appeared first on Above the Law.
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Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.
FDA Law Blog
AUGUST 12, 2024
By Sara W. Koblitz — In the world of patent term extensions, every day considered part of the regulatory review period is important, as that day—either in whole or in part—gets added back to the patent upon approval of the product. In the veterinary world, where rolling applications are common, the testing phase is usually particularly important because the review phase, which starts only when the last component of the rolling New Animal Drug Application (NADA)—called the Administrative NADA—is
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
New release promises results three times faster than the last version. The post Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel 2.0 appeared first on Above the Law.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 12, 2024
The latest issue of RabelsZ has just been released. It contains the following contributions which are also available open access : OBITUARY Holger Fleischer, Heike Schweitzer: Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker – † 22 April 2024, pp. 215–222, DOI: [link] ESSAYS Klaus Ulrich Schmolke: Das Prinzip der beschränkten Gesellschafterhaftung – Ein Streifzug durch die Debatten- und Argumentationsgeschichte, pp. 223–277, DOI: [link] The Concept of Limited Shareholder Liability – A Walk Through History’s Debat
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
Rough times for Ye. The post No Laughing Matter: Kanye’s Lawyer Jumps Ship appeared first on Above the Law.
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 12, 2024
Written by Rishi Gulati After a highly successful first series, all episodes of UEA Law School’s Second Podcast Series hosted by Rishi Gulati are now available on leading platforms, including on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and SoundCloud. The second series consists of several interesting discussions on key transnational concerns with experts from around the world.
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
You Know They Can See You Right? The post Lawyer Gets Caught On Camera Trying to Smuggle Goods To Inmate appeared first on Above the Law.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 12, 2024
Issue 3/2024 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht has just been published. It includes contributions on EU private law, comparative law, legal history, uniform law, and private international law. The full table of content can be accessed here. The following contributions might be of particular interest for the readers of this blog: Die Europäisierung des internationalen Erwachsenenschutzes Jan von Hein on the proposal for a regulation on the international protection of adults: On 3
Above The Law
AUGUST 12, 2024
* Harris campaign's strong ties to Paul Weiss. [ Reuters ] * Rudy may soon lose condo. [ Palm Beach Post ] * Former Twitter board member: a little birdie said Elon owes me $23M. [ Law360 ] * Kanye needs another lawyer. [ Yahoo ] * Goodwin hires former Google legal ops chief as COO. [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Second Circuit finds racial disparities on the rise in SDNY jury selection. [ New York Law Journal ] * UK firm gives staff Friday afternoons off. [ LegalCheek ] The post Morning Docket: 08.12.
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Law 360
AUGUST 12, 2024
A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing vegan burger manufacturer Beyond Meat of securities fraud, saying investors will need to be more specific about what the company's CEO knew at the time he touted the company's allegedly faltering partnerships with fast-food restaurants like McDonald's.
The Relativity Blog
AUGUST 12, 2024
Following the release of ABA Formal Opinion 512: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools, here’s a roadmap of how we got here and an educational reference guide to the Era of Generative AI.
Law 360
AUGUST 12, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a proposed class action alleging that BlueTriton Brands Inc. doesn't tell consumers that its Ice Mountain spring water contains microplastics, saying no reasonable consumer would believe "100% natural spring water" is a guarantee down to the molecular level.
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