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Futurist: Lawyers Will Become Obsolete This Year

A novelist and professional futurist predicts that (human) lawyers will be taken entirely out of contract law – well, we’re […]

Have We Learned Nothing About Emails?

The incriminating emails exchanged by Dewey & LeBoeuf attorneys since charged with larceny and securities fraud are just the latest examples of the fact that even smart and powerful people have not yet learned one of the basic tenets of eDiscovery: What you email can, and will, be used against you.

Credit-Rating Agency Reform Languishes

During the period leading up to the housing bust, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s were giving high grades to mortgage […]

New Commercial Arbitration Rules Provide Predictability

In 2013, the American Arbitration Association introduced two new sets of rules that apply to commercial arbitration disputes. The AAA […]

If Your Law Firm Suffers a Data-Breach, Maybe You Do Too

Lawyers often have access to clients’ sensitive commercial, operational and other information. But lawyers can also possess similar information about […]

UK’s Top Judge: Women Better Counsel Than Overworked Men

The legal industry’s 24/7 work style was created by “obsessive, testosterone-driven” men, who are ultimately not as professionally effective as […]

In Shifting Law Firm Landscape, Generation Gap Widening

As the legal industry faces a period of major change, old-school preferences of Baby Boomer senior partners and ascendant decision-maker […]

Public Infrastructure Investment Approaching Historic Low

A liberal research and advocacy group, citing the weakness of U.S. labor markets and the persistence of long-term unemployment, argues […]

Banish Citations From Main Text, Pleads Lawyer/Author

Legal writing should put case citations in footnotes, and keep those footnotes free of any discussion, argues Bryan Garner, president […]

U.S. Legal Developments To Watch In 2014: The Take From Linklaters

Heading the list is the Supreme Court’s reconsideration of the fraud on the market theory. But the UK-based behemoth also […]

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