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The American Lawyer

How Ogletree Deakins Overcame Legal AI Burnout

The labor and employment shop has become the first law firm to publicly license document-drafting technology from LegalMation, which earlier this month signed up Walmart Inc. as its first legal department client.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

With Help From New Law, This Legal Department is Firing its Outside Counsel

Univar Inc. is working with Elevate and a new Elevate-affiliated law firm to find new ways of doing legal work that it claims will result in 50 percent savings for its $10.5 million legal budget. "Law Land is not special," said Univar's general counsel.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege: Mitigating Risks When Working With Litigation PR Consultants

When it comes to the attorney-client privilege, confidentiality matters. The privilege ordinarily is lost when otherwise confidential attorney-client communications are exposed to third parties, and that makes such communications vulnerable to discovery in litigation.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Intersection of Law 2.0 and the Lawyer as Trusted Adviser

Blind reliance upon cost-savings solutions conceived by technologists, who may have never practiced law, is fraught with danger.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Cultivating Confidential Information in a Viral World

Social media may sprout business opportunity, but it also compounds existing challenges to predictably protecting critical, secret business information.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Talk, Little Action? Survey Details Big Law 'Innovation Gap'

A new survey reveals that 81 percent of clients see "little" or "hardly any" innovation inside their law firms. Only 5 percent of clients are content. What gives?
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

After Munger Tolles's #MeToo Snafu, Orrick Touts End of Arbitration Agreements

After Munger, Tolles & Olson apologized over the weekend for asking summer associates to submit to mandatory arbitration, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe sought to differentiate itself from the Big Law masses.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facebook's Paul Grewal No Stranger to Data Privacy Fights

Paul Grewal, the Facebook in-house lawyer who has had the unenviable task of being the company's public voice addressing the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has a history of engaging with thorny privacy issues going back to his days on the federal bench in San Jose.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Attorney Uses Delicate Touch to Sink $8 Million Case Against Geico

The optics weren't in his favor.In an $8 million lawsuit pitting a school counselor with paraplegia and her husband against Big Insurance, Coral Springs attorney…
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

An AI 'Spell-Check for Lawyers,' But Will They Trust It?

A company called LawGeex commissioned a study matching up human lawyers against artificial intelligence to read and review non-disclosure agreements. The robots won.
7 minute read

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