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Leading UK law firm Stephenson Harwood adopts Luminance for high value M&A Transactions

Press Releases, UK Law /
law firm tie-up

18 May 2021- Leading UK and ‘Global Top 200’ law firm, Stephenson Harwood, has been utilising Luminance’s market-leading AI platform to enhance the way it conducts legal due diligence for high value strategically important M&A deals. Stephenson Harwood was looking for ways to quickly and efficiently get insight into the totality of documents before an M&A

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‘Magic’ Australian-Based Josef Legal Platform Gets $2.5 Million Funding

Australia Law News, Law Technology /
Josef founders

Australian-based legal software platform Josef, has raised $2.5 million in a funding round led by Australian venture capital company Carthona Capital along with US investors that include The LegalTech Fund. Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, it has total funding to $3.5 million. Josef’s software enables legal professionals to automate legal tasks

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Akerman Appoints Legal Marketing Veteran Iris Jones as Chief Marketing & Client Development Officer

Press Releases /
Legalmarketing akerman

==> LawFuel Legal Jobs Here – Post Yours May 18, 2021 – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, today announced that legal marketing veteran Iris Jones has joined the firm as its Chief Marketing & Client Development Officer. Jones will be based in Akerman’s Austin office. Jones has a longtime career in legal marketing

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LA Man Lead Police on High Speed Chase With 75 Pounds of Cocaine in Car

Press Releases /
cocaine importing

          LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man who led police on a high-speed car chase with more than 75 pounds of cocaine stashed in his vehicle was sentenced today to 186 months in federal prison.           Anthony Martinez, 40, of La Habra, was sentenced by United States District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald. Martinez pleaded guilty on

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‘Zero Tolerance’ and Russell McVeagh’s ‘Hip Cool’ Former Partner . . The Publicity No Firm Wants

New Zealand Law News, Power Law Firms - New Zealand /
sexual harassment in law office

The ongoing Law Society tribunal hearing into Russell McVeagh’s former partner facing seven charges before the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal in Wellington is just the sort of publicity no law firm needs. But it also demonstrates the ‘work hard/play hard’ culture that pervades high performing law firms and lawyers – an issue that Russell

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How Do Juries Make Up Their Minds? PhD Helps Understand Their Decision-Making

New Zealand Law News, NZ Press Releases /
Jury trial lawfuel

It seems like common sense that the more eyewitnesses who believe a person guilty the more likely they are to be guilty. But that is not always true. For his thesis, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington PhD candidate Robbie Taylor investigated the extent to which study participants acting as mock jurors were influenced by

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Online Trials – Is A Trial Less Real When It Appears On Screens?

Briefings, Lawyers /
zoom trial

Does an online trial mean that justice is just “virtual” rather than real? Ken Broda-Bahm* – With the extended pandemic restrictions and the resulting court backlogs across the country, we have moved tentatively into the world of online trials and hearings, with participants joining from different locations. In that distributed setting, many critics have argued

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