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Five Best Practices for Corporate Counsel

Based on a projection of the kinds of strategic initiatives successful law departments will be undertaking in respect to data […]

Defining the New Law Department Library

In 1983 legal research accounted for ten percent of a lawyer’s time. Thirty years later, with data available instantly through […]

Law and the Fear of Cancer

Increasingly, plaintiffs are seeking damages for emotional distress engendered by a fear of contracting cancer. Only a few jurisdictions have […]

Supreme Court Decisions Make Arbitration Compulsory

In a trio of decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has outlined a mechanism that could eviscerate commercial as well as […]

Cartel Enforcement Ramps up in China

Over the past year, cartel enforcement in China has intensified as enforcement agencies have built up capacity, confidence and experience. […]

New Republic: Chief Justice Roberts ‘Has No Idea How Money Works in Politics’

New Republic legal correspondent Sam Kleiner expresses some doubt about whether the McCutcheon decision will have much direct effect on […]

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 […]

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