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First Year Legal Associates: What to Expect

Martindale-Avvo

In 2021, 83% of law school grads found employment where passing the bar was a requirement or advantage. You might also participate in due diligence for pending contracts and mergers, and work on discovery for litigation. But according to a recent report from the American Bar Association (ABA), the prospects are quite good.

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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

Attorney at Work

Others — about 30% of organizations using contract staff in 2021, by Tower Staffing’s count — are doing so for the first time. They are recognizing that the additional talent can help them manage a burgeoning volume of projects and cases; fill gaps due to vacation, leave and turnover; and provide expertise for special engagements.

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Litera to Acquire Legal AI Pioneer Kira Systems, Enhancing its Transaction Management Offering

LawSites

Zuva will launch and announce its first product in September 2021. Marwaha said he sees Kira as a natural extension of the Litera Transact workflow, adding contract analysis and due diligence. Waisberg will lead the new company as CEO. His Kira cofounder Hudek will be a strategic advisor and board director to the new company.

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Ikigai Law interview with Mr. Rakesh Maheshwari on the online gaming amendments to the IT Rules 2021

Ikigai Law

Rakesh Maheshwari on the amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, to regulate online gaming. After the IT Rules 2021 were published, several stakeholders reached out to MeitY with concerns about legality of online gaming in India.

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The Legal Ethics of Cloud Computing & SaaS

Percipient

In short, lawyers must observe their long-standing ethical obligation to preserve client confidence and conduct due diligence into any service or vendor used to store client information. Other states describe a lawyer’s duty when choosing SaaS and cloud computing services as one of “due diligence.”

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ChatGPT and the legal industry… according to ChatGPT

CEE Legal Tech

I was created by OpenAI and my knowledge cutoff was on 2021, so you can consider me as a model that was trained on that year. Another is by using natural language processing to analyze legal documents and extract relevant information, which can be useful for contract review and due diligence. How can I help you today?

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The SEC’s New Risk Alert Warns about the Use of Alternative Data

Debevoise Data Blog

Key Takeaways The Risk Alert should be considered along with the SEC’s September 2021 enforcement action against alternative data provider App Annie and EXAMS’ recent statement in its 2022 Priorities that it plans to scrutinize advisers’ use of alternative data in their business and investment decision-making processes.