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Conflict-Checking Software For Law Firms: The Value of Full-Text Search

MyCase

However, regardless of a firm’s specific circumstances, “all law firms must keep certain minimum written or electronic records of each new or prospective engagement and must consult those records when checking proposed new engagements for conflicts of interest.”. What Records Must be Maintained by Law Firms?

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Are Paralegals Meant to Survive This Decade?

The Estrin Report

o Limited ceiling – you very likely never will be the boss of a law firm if you do not have a law degree. Aline Martin-O’Brien has a Masters in Theory and Practice of Procedural Law from the University of Paris: Panthéon–Sorbonne. By Aline Martin O’Brien!

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Are Paralegals Meant to Survive This Decade?

The Estrin Report

o Limited ceiling – you very likely never will be the boss of a law firm if you do not have a law degree. Aline Martin-O’Brien has a Masters in Theory and Practice of Procedural Law from the University of Paris: Panthéon–Sorbonne. By Aline Martin O’Brien!

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China’s Cause of Foreign-related Rule of Law

Conflict of Laws

China’s top legislature has prioritized and made significant progress in foreign-related legislations across various legal domains, including civil, commercial, economic, administrative, and procedural laws. It is not common for a law firm to have an internal research institute in China and many more might be on the way to come.

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Chinese judgment on the third-party funding in arbitration

Conflict of Laws

iii] The court reviewed the challenge under Article 281 of the Chinese Civil Procedure Law, which dealt with the challenge to foreign-related arbitral awards. While they could connect with Nixon Peabody law firms in other regions, those law firms were independent of Nixon Peabody CWL.

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The Development of forum non conveniens in the Chinese Law and Practice

Conflict of Laws

Cornell), Bachelor of Laws (ZUEL). * The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an important principle in civil procedure laws and frequently applied by courts in many legal systems, especially those of common law countries.

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Avoidance of the debtor’s transactions within the framework of a foreign insolvency before a Russian court

Conflict of Laws

Kostin, Senior Research Fellow at the Private Law Research Centre (Moscow, Russia) and counsel atAvangard law firm. and Valeria Rzyanina, junior associate, Avangard Law Firm. This is a synopsis of an article published in the Herald of Civil Procedure Law Journal N 1/2021 in Russian).

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