A UK academic and an immigration lawyer have teamed up to create a robot to provide immigration legal advice in a continuation of the move towards machine learning-based law advice. The project is at the University of Bradford and involves an immigration lawyer Yash Dubal, a director at AY&J, and Dhaval Thakker, associate professor at the faculty of […]
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Three public health advocates are relieved that their long-standing Whale Oil defamation trial against Cameron Slater, Carrick Graham, Katherine Rich and the Food and Grocery Council has finally concluded and they are pleased that the truth has come out. Shane Bradbrook, Doug Sellman and Boyd Swinburn settled their case at the High Court today, just
AbovetheLaw ran this article from Cadence Counsel’s David Lat, who spoke with a Fortune 500 company’s Legal Diversity Director to learn what they were doing about pioneering diversity strategies David Lat* In our recent conversation about Black History Month, my colleague Monique Burt Williams — CEO of Cadence Counsel, which focuses exclusively on the placement of
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Ken Broda-Bahm At this point, I will wager that we’ve all seen the hilarious video from the 394th Judicial District Court of Texas, where an attorney, unable to remove a filter that changes his face into a cat’s, nonetheless confirms that he is prepared to go forward, and solemnly pledges to the court, “I am not a cat.”
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Prestigious “top pick” ranking follows a year of explosive growth for Litify across law firms, in-house counsel, government entities and nonprofits NEW YORK, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Litify is proud to announce that it has been named as the best legal practice management software for 2021 by the leading legal publication LawFuel. Litify was founded with a mission to
What are the biggest trends in legal tech in 2021? What are the types of technologies organizations planning on investing in? And what are the metrics we all might want to start measuring? Those are exactly the kinds of questions we asked top corporate legal leaders in a recent survey commissioned by Mitratech It revealed
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Tributes have flowed for former Law Society president Jonathan Temm, 58, who died this week. A Rotorua-based barrister who was appointed Queens’ Counsel in 2019, Jonathan Temm was a highly respected barrister and a popular member of the profession for his selflessness and humanity as much as for his service to the profession and his
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Lawyer of the Year Sponsors LexisNexis New Zealand [adrotate banner=”140″] Staedtler – The pens successful lawyers use Cassie Nicholson – Legal First Responder Government legal counsel Cassie Nicholson, perhaps the key legal figure behind the mountain of legal work required to be climbed during the Covid-19 pandemic, is LawFuel’s Lawyer of the Year for 2020.
Ilan T. Graff, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that SOHRAB SHARMA, a/k/a “Sam Sharma” was sentenced today to eight years in prison in connection with his leading role in a scheme to induce victims to invest more than $25 million worth of digital funds in
Sidley Austin has taken on high profile former Cravath Capital Markets lawyer Johnny Skumpija in an announcement made today. The Sidley press release is below: New York – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Johnny Skumpija, a leading capital markets lawyer, has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Capital Markets
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