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

LawSites

In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. At the hearing, the attorney again apologized.

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

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

So, It’s really interesting, what you’re saying now is, I talked to you, you may know, Jason Baron, you will see former director of litigation supports the White House in the National Archives. 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.

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

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Toby Brown 8:11 So the first one disputes, that’s litigation. They’re like, Well, no, I want to have the most interesting litigation I can do, I don’t want to do boring litigation. We had other due diligence factors as part of this portability of the work, it was far more an m&a approach.

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

Legal Tech Monitor

In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. At the hearing, the attorney again apologized.

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Ireland’s Legal Tech Conference Will Take Place on 29th November

Legal Tech Blog

Great news for business efficiency, but is it bad news for those charged with collecting data for litigation, investigations, and compliance? Karyn Harty , Partner, Head of Litigation at Dentons will be chairing the event. Gain an insight into tools used, approaches taken and how it is driving accuracy and efficiency.

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Technology for Lawyers: Empowering the Legal Profession in the Digital Age

CaseFox

E-Discovery and Digital Forensics: Electronic discovery (e-discovery) has become a crucial aspect of modern litigation. AI-powered applications can perform tasks such as contract analysis, due diligence, and legal research with remarkable speed and accuracy. AI’s capabilities have expanded to natural language processing.