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First Year Legal Associates: What to Expect

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What Type of Work You Perform Its common to hear the term grunt work to describe first-year associate duties. You might also participate in due diligence for pending contracts and mergers, and work on discovery for litigation. Extra tip: double check external deadlines you hear second hand from someone else.

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Senate FISA Hearing Spotlights International Compliance Concerns

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"Due diligence can be different for different entities around the world," said Snell & Wilmer cybersecurity partner Aloke Chakravarty.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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At a hearing on the motions to dismiss, the judge started out by informing plaintiff’s counsel of the fictitious cases he’d found and asking how they’d been included in the filings. .” At the hearing, the attorney again apologized. Davis wrote, he noted that the legal citations “seemed amiss.”

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Recruiting and Retention: Seven Strategies to Help Win the War for Talent

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Despite what you may be hearing about today’s market studies continue to show that compensation is not the primary consideration for candidates. While due diligence is still critical, firms can’t afford to sit back and wait. Articulate the case for your firm. Get ready for counteroffers.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas

Patent due diligence processes take too long. Join us to hear best practices in researching and producing thorough patent due diligence reports. Register now and start mastering patent due diligence like a pro! There are better methods!

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First Year Legal Associates: What to Expect

Martindale-Avvo

What Type of Work You Perform Its common to hear the term grunt work to describe first-year associate duties. You might also participate in due diligence for pending contracts and mergers, and work on discovery for litigation. Extra tip: double check external deadlines you hear second hand from someone else.

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Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: AI, Employees and an Integrated Defense – With SessionGuardian’s Jordan Ellington and Oren Leib, and Katten’s Trisha Sircar (TGIR Ep. 211)

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Leib notes SessionGuardian’s solution addresses risks beyond eDiscovery and source code review, including data breach response, M&A due diligence, and outsourced call centers. m&a and IP due diligence matters, contract review matters. We’d love to hear from you. That’s an obvious one.

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