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How to Establish Paternity Under Florida Paternity Laws: A Step-by-Step Guide

Article source: Travis Walker Law, Florida Biological parentage and legally established paternity are related but different things. Under Florida paternity laws, an unmarried biological father holds no automatic enforceable legal status as a parent. This distinction matters. According to Florida Department of Health data, 45.0 percent of Florida births in 2024 were to unmarried mothers,

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When Does an IVF Error Become Medical Malpractice?

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Article source: Fertility Law Group IVF treatment requires an unusual combination of medical judgment, laboratory precision, and careful handling of reproductive material. Most fertility treatments proceed without a serious preventable error. However, mistakes involving embryos, sperm, eggs, medications, genetic testing, or laboratory procedures can have profound consequences. So when does an IVF mistake become medical

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Google Goes for Big Law’s Jugular: Inside Gemini Enterprise for Legal

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Google Cloud has officially fired a massive shot across the legal tech bow, unveiling Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built, agentic AI platform designed to move past generic chat prompts and directly tackle the billable grind of high-stakes practice. Developed in direct collaboration with major global law firms including Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams

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Lawyers Nearly Killed Rugby’s Landmark Brain Injury Case, But The High Court Has Saved It

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More than 500 former rugby players have secured a reprieve in the UK High Court after their brain-injury claims were struck out over failures to provide required medical and neurological-testing material. The case is a group-litigation management story in which failures by lawyers came close to ending hundreds of potentially landmark claims before the underlying

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Four SLAPPs In A Decade Of New Zealand Judgments. LawFuel Was One Of Them

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The Oligarch Lost Under California’s Anti-SLAPP Law. So He Came Here Key Points: >>A SLAPP is not a case you lose, but one that nobody ever gets to win. The point is the legal process rather than the merit of the case – the letter, the interlocutory application, the costs order, the settlement. >>New Zealand

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Kirkland’s $500 Million AI Bet Isn’t About Speed. It’s About Killing the Billable Hour

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Kirkland & Ellis, the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, is putting half a billion dollars of its own money into a proprietary AI platform. That’s a big bold move (what else would you expect from Kirklands?) which is not to keep up with Harvey or Legora, or to shave a few hours off due diligence. It’s something far more valuable.

The plan is to bottle the firm’s “collective intelligence” and put it in every lawyer’s hands and, in the process, lean hard into the long-predicted death of the billable hour.
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Smokeball Rebrands: Why ‘People-Law’ Is Legal Tech’s Next Big Bet

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Legal tech heavyweight Smkeball has rolled out a major global brand refresh, rallying around a singular ethos: “People-Law.” After 14 years in the practice management space, the company isn’t changing its core software or leadership, but it’s changing how it tells its story, taking direct aim at the administrative burnout plaguing community-level practitioners. What Is

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KPMG’s Investigation Problem: In-House Lawyer Says His Probe Was Undermined by Misleading Answers

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KPMG Australia’s confidential-client-information crisis has turned inward, with one of the firm’s senior in-house lawyers telling Parliament that his original examination of whistleblower allegations was undermined by misleading answers and limits imposed on his work. Executive director and deputy counsel James McClelland told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on 14 August

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The Claim-Handling Class Action Is Reshaping Property Insurance Litigation

Article source: Mag Mile Law Trial Attorneys Property insurers spent the last decade defending weather-driven claim surges. In 2026 they are defending something more structural: a wave of class actions attacking not whether a loss is covered, but how carriers calculate what they owe once coverage is conceded. For litigators watching the plaintiffs’ bar retool,

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Why Law Firms Are Rethinking Emergency IT Support and Investing in Proactive IT Support

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Article source; Techmedics.com Your document management system goes dark at 4:15 p.m., ninety minutes before an e-filing deadline. Someone calls the emergency number, access comes back by six, and the filing goes out. Nobody asks why the storage volume filled up. Emergency support fixes the visible failure. Proactive support goes after the conditions that produced

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