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Lawyers Beware: How AI Software Is Cutting Legal Costs

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Technology continues to cut into legal budgets, increasing the need for law firms to get ‘with it’ and increase efficiencies.  Take JPMorgan, who have adopted new “COIN” software (that means ‘Contract Intelligence’), which reviews their loan agreements and cuts their legal expediture. COIN will do in seconds  the work once requiring 360,000 hours each

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Cardiologist & Neurologist in Scheme That Bilked Public Health Care of $50 Million

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Defendants Provided False Patient Medical Information and Used the Identities of Doctors Who Did Not Work at the Clinic to Submit More Than $50 Million in Fraudulent Health Care Claims   Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the

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Child Porn Teachers are “Doubly Dangerous” Says US Attorney

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LYLE KAMLET, a former teacher at a school in Mamaroneck, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Kenneth M. Karas to 39 months in prison for possessing child pornography. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated:  “Child pornography victimizes the

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Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck Quadruples Size of ChicagoOffice With the Addition of 15 Baugh Dalton Attorneys

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   (March 1, 2017, Chicago, IL) — Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that it is quadrupling the size of its Chicago office with the addition of 15 attorneys from Chicago-based Baugh Dalton LLC, a boutique law firm specializing in financial services, professional and general liability, employment

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Slaughter and May advised Palamon Capital Partners on the lease of its headquarters

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Slaughter and May advised Palamon Capital Partners in relation to the renewal of the lease of its headquarters at Cleveland House, 33 King Street, London from St James’s Property Investment Ltd for a term of fifteen years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Venable Moves its DC Headquarters to State-of-the-Art Building at 600 Massachusetts Avenue

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, DC (Feb. 28, 2017) – Venable LLP announced today that it has officially moved its Washington, DC headquarters to 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, located in the heart of the city’s burgeoning Penn Quarter/Chinatown neighborhood.  Venable’s new flagship office, which is in a newly constructed, high-performance, next-generation building, enhances the firm’s commitment to exceptional client

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Bike Accident Claims: Should Cyclists Expect More From Their Lawyers?

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In many cities in Canada and other parts of North America, new bike paths have been built for cyclists. These paths now have new signage and other facilities to protect the increasing number of bikers and reduce accidents. But has this measure been effective? In Toronto, reports show that over a 1,000 bicycle accidents

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Slater & Gordon’s Continued Fall

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Slater and Gordon’s  news these days is going from bad to worse.  Following a first half loss of AUD$425 million the law firm’s shares continue to plummet, dropping 25 per cent this week. The increased loss was due to a AUD$350 million additional writedown on its disastrous UK business, which the firm has been

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