Using LinkedIn as a marketing tool for lawyers has increasingly become something of a no-brainer. The ability to harness the power of the massive network, which is specifically designed for professionals and others to “network”, means that there is a receptive audience for quality leads and content. LinkedIn executive Samantha McKenna recent published a piece
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Epiq – Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) that can occur on both public and private networks. Blockchain is revolutionary technology because it can securely and permanently record transactions without the presence of a centralized authority such as a bank or government. While this technology is complex and can be confusing, a
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Elon Musk recently hired a couple of lawyers with some solid experience in Securities Law, but may well be set to keep them and a whole team of others busy as his legal woes continue to mount. As the US Department of Justice opens its criminal investigation into his tweets about taking his company Tesla
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Mediator Lee Jay Berman may not have qualified in law, but he has become one of America’s most sought-after mediators, resolving seemingly insoluable disputes from rock band breakups to seemingly ‘irreconcilable’ business and personal disputes. And he has some thoughts on how lawyers can use mediation effectively for the one thing every good lawyer wants
Otago University’s artificial intelligence research will help shed light on the effect of AI innovations on law and public policy in New Zealand, including a look at some potentially harmful implications from the powerful and fast-developing technology.The Otago initiative, Artificial Intelligence and Law in New Zealand, is funded in part by the Law Foundation and
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Baker Donelson – Artificial intelligence (AI) enabled legal tools are reaching the market at an incredible pace. Understanding and vetting such technology is critical to ensuring better outcomes for legal projects. Every day, news articles in my social media feed address some new legal technology powered by AI. The promise of legal AI is incredible.
Slaughter and May today announces a major appointment in London. Sir David Green CB QC, former Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), will join the firm as a senior consultant on 22 October, six months after his departure from the SFO. Sir David was at the helm at the SFO for 6 years and
Foley Hoag – Joshua Jarvis Over the past few years, we have seen numerous instances of companies protecting their trademarks in creative ways – approaches that leverage humor and the brands themselves in order to achieve an acceptable legal outcome while simultaneously promoting the company and its brands, thus minimizing the risk of public relations blowback.
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A new report on racial and gender in the law bias in the US has demonstrated how rampant the bias is and why efforts to control it are failing. The report, “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession,” is based on a 2016 survey of 2,827
Washington Correspondent If ever the Trump administration and its lawyers could become more weird it might have been in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the Cohen plea, there has also been the exiting of White House Counsel Don McGahn and his potential replacement by King & Spalding litigator Bobby Burchfield, who has been
