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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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Johannes Scholtes: AI Is Finally Here. Now the Hard Work Begins for the Legal Industry (TGIR Ep. 191)

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Marlene Gebauer 12:06 So Jan, you’ve written about how AI can be used to improve the due diligence process for m&a deals. So, you know, there’s a lot of AI tools out there for m&a due diligence right now. So how do you see AI tools, sort of improving the due diligence process for attorneys?

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Rethinking Law Firm Strategy: The Road to Growth and Success with Toby Brown and Nita Sanger (TGIR Ep. 200)

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And I would say that the strategy person needs to be there who understands the business, so it could be like in so Toby, I mean, I’d love to get your thoughts because I don’t know whether you need both sleep strategy officer and a Chief Operating Officer, but that would be kind of good to hear what your thoughts are on that.

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