Above The Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

Last fall, Wolters Kluwer released the sixth annual installment of the Future Ready Lawyer report. Time has flown and the legal profession has moved just as quickly, if not faster. Consider the inaugural 2019 survey that asked 700 lawyers across the U.S. and Europe to assess their current state and future priorities and preparedness to identify what it will take to be future ready.” It found that 69% of responding attorneys believed that understanding which technologies to deploy was impor

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment provides that "[a]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right.to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Moreover, Part I, Article 15 of the New Hampshire Constitution states that "[e]very subject.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2025

Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Department of Justice (DOJ) employees Monday for playing a “significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” according to the memo obtained by CNN. The memo sent to the employees gave them formal notice of their immediate removal from their position at the DOJ, and from the federal service, stating that the trust needed to implement the President’s agenda faithfully was broken.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

The overwhelming majority of patent cases settle at some point in their lifespan. Some settle quickly after a case is filed, while others do not reach their denouement until after a trip up to the Federal Circuit or even the Supreme Court. No matter how convoluted a path a patent case may take to its final destination, the reality is that a negotiated resolution, rather than with an executed judgment, is almost always how a case ends.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that pregnant women in Gaza face disproportionate harm from the Israel-Gaza conflict. The report highlighted that women in Palestine face “extraordinary challenges” in finding safe places to give birth even when they face a high-risk delivery due to food insecurity. HRW traces complications in pregnancies to the poor quality of health care and sanitation during the conflict as data show that 68 percent of women experienced medical complicatio

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Above The Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

AI and environmental sustainability might not seem like the most obvious pairing, but Pamela Isom is here to prove otherwise. As the founder and CEO of Izabayte Consulting, Pamela has spent her career at the intersection of technology, governance, and safe digital transformation. She joined me for a conversation that opened my eyes to the powerful ways AI can drive sustainability — and the work it takes to make AI itself more sustainable.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Heres the Tuesday morning read: FBI SWAT team raided the wrong house. Can family sue? Supreme Court will decide. (Maureen Groppe, USA Today) US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Mississippi lifetime ban on voting by felons (Andrew Chung, Reuters) Supreme Court will review FBIs immunity in lawsuit over mistaken house raid (Zach Schonfeld, The Hill) Supreme Court could further boost religion i

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Intelligize Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

As part of its process to narrow priorities for 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board in November invited stakeholders to weigh in on whether certain financial key performance indicators better known as KPIs should be standardized and disclosed in financial statements. In an invitation to comment that could open the door for new rules, FASB requested input on how best to define and report financial KPIs that do not fall under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which means they

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Michigan steakhouse has dropped its malpractice suit against its former attorney after claiming the lawyer made mistakes in franchise agreements that cost it more than $2 million, according to a stipulated order Tuesday.

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The Relativity Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Explore current perspectives on what modern legal and technology professionals can do to mitigate the risks posed by deepfake evidence, evolve their careers, and help preserve the integrity of our justice system amidst the rise of generative AI.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Sections recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.

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LawSites

JANUARY 28, 2025

Relativity has long been one of the dominant providers of e-discovery software, and for many years, that meant its widely used, on-premises Relativity Server product. Thus, when the company introduced its cloud platform RelativityOne in 2017, those reading the tea leaves might have seen the foreshadowing of the eventual demise of the legacy Server product.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

Kirkland & Ellis LLP has picked up the longtime co-chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's digital infrastructure, data center and cloud computing industry group, who has joined the firm's corporate practice group in Washington, D.C.

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LawSites

JANUARY 28, 2025

The market for alternative legal services providers has grown to an estimated $28.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

In celebration of the 17th annual Data Privacy Day, compliance professionals shouldn't take no for an answer when they request funding and other support for their privacy initiatives instead, consider new ways to get leaders on board, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.

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Patently O

JANUARY 28, 2025

by Dennis Crouch Last week, I wrote about the twin challenges facing the USPTO: a return-to-office mandate and a hiring freeze that could significantly impact patent operations. Today's joint memorandum from OMB and OPM provides a rapid timeline for implementing these changes, with agencies required to submit detailed implementation plans by February 7th, 2025.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Texas debt-settlement company should be sanctioned for failing to disclose its alleged affiliation with another debt consolidator and for invoking attorney-client privilege when pressed about how its general counsel complied with a subpoena, Pennsylvania's banking regulator told a state court Tuesday.

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Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 28, 2025

Gray Robinson | Get over yourself isnt just a jab or figure of speech. Its a neurological workout, requiring you to confront the stories your brain loves to tell. The post Getting Over Yourself: Becoming the Lawyer You Want to Be appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Sixth Circuit panel appeared skeptical Tuesday that Dairy Queen violated the terms of a franchise agreement with the owners of a dozen restaurant locations in Michigan by blocking the proposed sale of two stores.

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OilandGasLawyer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Our firm represented the Opielas in two cases involving a Magnolia horizontal well in Karnes County: a suit against Magnolia in Karnes County, and a suit against the Texas Railroad Commission in Travis County. In both cases the Opielas contended that Magnolia had no right to drill a horizontal well located partly on their land. Because this was a significant case addressing allocation and PSA wells, this post will go into the somewhat complex facts and history in some detail.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday prohibited Biogen Inc. and its human therapeutics product subsidiary from making public statements regarding a potential buyout of Sage Therapeutics Inc. after Sage sued for enforcement of a standstill provision in an earlier Biogen deal for Sage stock.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 28, 2025

The European Law Institute (ELI) Extra-Judicial Administration of Justice in Cross-Border Family and Succession Matters projec t is organising its dissemination conference in Vienna on 14 February. At this all-day event (9.00 to 18.00) experts will present their country reports, comparative findings and policy recommendations, in order to discuss these with the audience.

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Patently O

JANUARY 28, 2025

by Dennis Crouch and Tim Knight The Supreme Court is being asked to decide a case that could have a major impact on copyright law. The case involves photographs taken by Michael Grecco in 2017, but the lawsuit was not filed until 2021. The key question is whether the Copyright Act's three-year statute of limitations runs from when copyright infringement occurs or from when the copyright holder discovers it.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 28, 2025

Discover law firm cost control strategies to optimize your law firm cash flow, increase firm savings, and improve firm profitability.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 28, 2025

Justice Goodwin Liu will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 Capital Case Defense Seminar next month. The four-day event in Monterey is billed as “an intensive educational opportunity for anyone involved in, or considering taking on, the defense of a capital case.” Justice Liu is scheduled to address the attendees on the seminar’s first day, February 14.

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