Sentences with phrase «of legal research companies»

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Mentions of «cryptocurrency» (digital currencies not tied to any country's legal tender) and related terms including «bitcoin» and «ethereum» (the two most popular cryptocurrencies), «blockchain» (the technology underlying these currencies), and «initial coin offering» (or ICO, which lets companies raise capital through the creation of a new cryptocurrency) have skyrocketed over the last seven years, according to data from Sentieo, a financial research firm.

Previously, Vance was President of West Publishing Company, a provider of legal and business research which is now owned by Thomson Reuters.

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2007)-- Glass Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced the launch of the ESG Watch List Service, a tool that enables Glass Lewis» proxy voting clients to track companies with environmental, social, or governance (ESG) policies and / or practices that may create operational, performance, financial, legal, accounting or reputational risks.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

In 2005 and 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded economic research on alternative corporate governance models, namely the principal / agent and team production models, and their ability to explain both the legal and economic behaviors of public companies.

In a recently published paper in the Washington and Lee Law Review, Kesan and co-authors Carol M. Hayes, a research associate in the College of Law, and Masooda N. Bashir, the assistant director of the Social Trust Initiatives at the U. of I.'s Information Trust Institute, propose creating a legal framework that would require companies to provide baseline protections for personal information while also taking steps to enhance users» control over their own data.

In the USA, it is not possible to do such research with Federal funding (e.g. NIH), and although some States have rules that would forbid it irrespective of funding source, it would be legal with non-federal funds (charities, foundations, companies, private, etc).

The authors of the study point to other regulatory and legislative acts, including the «order precedence rule,» commonly known as the «Manning Rule» after a legal case against Charles Schwab, the Gramm - Leach - Bliley Act, which saw the end of the Glass - Steagall Act of 1933 and formally allowed the combination of commercial banks, securities firms and insurance companies, Regulation Fair Disclosure, which devalued stock research, and the Global Settlement ruling, which has made research coverage tougher for issuers to secure.

ESA offers a wide range of services to interactive entertainment software companies, including conducting business and consumer research; providing legal and policy analysis and advocacy on First Amendment, intellectual property, and technology / e-commerce issues; managing a global content protection program; owning and operating E3; and representing video game industry interests in federal and state government relations.

These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology research and advisory company Blue Hill Research pitting ROSS against the two dominant legal research sresearch and advisory company Blue Hill Research pitting ROSS against the two dominant legal research sResearch pitting ROSS against the two dominant legal research sresearch services.

As I reported last month, Canadian legal publisher Maritime Law Book Ltd. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami - based legal publisher that claims to have one of the world's largest collections of legal information, and Justia, the California - based legal information company that is among the world's largest providers and supporters of free access to legal information.

I summed up my sense of this in a recent post, where I wrote, «We live in a time when two guys in law school who think they have a better idea for a legal research site can run with it and create the company Ravel Law by the time they graduate.

The legal research company Casetext has introduced a feature that monitors an attorney's litigation dockets for briefs and memoranda from opposing counsel and then automatically delivers a report of case law that is relevant but not included in the document.

Legal research company Fastcase will announce a new utility tomorrow that enables one - click printing of any case from any source on the Web or in any Microsoft Word document.

Carl Malamud's nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase today announced an agreement that will allow Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law in the public domain.

The legal research company Fastcase has begun a broad rollout of its all - new version, Fastcase 7.

Legal news company ALM and legal research company LexisNexis this week announced an expansion of their content licensing agreement that is good news for LexisNexis subscribers but not so good news for the rest of the legal commuLegal news company ALM and legal research company LexisNexis this week announced an expansion of their content licensing agreement that is good news for LexisNexis subscribers but not so good news for the rest of the legal commulegal research company LexisNexis this week announced an expansion of their content licensing agreement that is good news for LexisNexis subscribers but not so good news for the rest of the legal commulegal community.

I reported here in November that 1.8 million pages of federal case law would go public early in 2008 through an agreement between Carl Malamud's nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase.

As I wrote yesterday at my LawSites blog, it is notable that this public - domain database will come about with the cooperation of a for - profit legal research company.

I have said before and I continue to believe that for a legal research company to compete against the longstanding dominance of Westlaw and LexisNexis, having secondary content such as treatises and practice guides is the Holy Grail.

Now, Compass has announced plans to launch a major new legal research suite for Canada, backed by strategic investments from two leading companies in legal information publishing, vLex, a Barcelona and Miami - based legal publisher that claims to have one of the world's largest collections of legal information, and Justia, the California - based legal information company run by the original founders of FindLaw, CEO Tim Stanley and President Stacy Stern.

The legal research service Casemaker has partnered with the international legal research service vLex in a joint licensing agreement that gives clients of both companies access to more of the world's laws.

Legal I.T. (www.legalit.ie) is an Irish company that specialise in the research, development and implementation of I.T. solutions, primarily focused on the legal induLegal I.T. (www.legalit.ie) is an Irish company that specialise in the research, development and implementation of I.T. solutions, primarily focused on the legal indulegal industry.

Technology companies in the legal research space add millions of documents to their repositories every day.

Companies in the U.S. spend nearly triple the amount on legal services for every dollar of revenue than counterparts around the globe according to legal research company Acritas....

In an interview with AALL Spectrum, Jeff Pfeifer, vice president of product management for the North American Research Solutions business of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, reminisced about where the company came from and how they arrived at where they are today.

It is our honor to recognize the life and work of Mr. James McSwiney, former CEO of the Mead Corporation who was at the helm of the online legal research company that later became LexisNexis after it was purchased in 1968.

Blue J Legal has since released two products, Tax Foresight and Employment Foresight, positioned by the company as the «next generation of legal research.&rLegal has since released two products, Tax Foresight and Employment Foresight, positioned by the company as the «next generation of legal research.&rlegal research.»

By providing a cross-disciplinary mix of design, legal, and strategic advice at an early stage in the product development process, John helps companies avoid spending research and development money needlessly on «false starts» that ultimately can not be commercialized.

For more than 10 years, Legal Week Intelligence has provided market - driven research for global and national law firms and FTSE 350 companies by canvassing thousands of top legal professioLegal Week Intelligence has provided market - driven research for global and national law firms and FTSE 350 companies by canvassing thousands of top legal professiolegal professionals.

In the second post, we took a closer look at how legal research and ediscovery are being impacted by AI; and in this final installment, we'll take a look at other AI tools and companies at work in areas of law today.

Notably, this public - domain database will come about with the cooperation of a for - profit legal research company.

The company's products and services will serve as a complement to Thomson West's collection of litigation resources, analytical content and legal research technologies currently available on Westlaw.»

Fastcase is a company that offers lawyers an affordable online legal research alternative to the traditional mainstays of legal research, Lexis and Westlaw.

Fortunately, there may be some help on the horizon, as companies are now developing legal research tools that employ the power of data analytics to aid case forecasting.

In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (in material percentages at least) the AI - based tools that can supplement attorneys» traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting legal research (see here and here).

Under his leadership, Integreon pioneered the global delivery of high - value, legal, research and business services and technology to 32 of the Am Law 50, all of the top 10 global investment banks, 9 of the top 10 life sciences companies, 6 of the top 10 technology companies and 17 of the top 50 global brands.

Artificial Lawyer recently had a chat with Irish entreprenuer Gavin Sheridan to hear the unusual story of how start - up Vizlegal came to be and the potential the company has to disrupt the business of legal knowledge and research.

The new Web site, which serves the U.S. legal market, reflects the company's growth from a research provider to now offering a full range of products and services that help law firms succeed in all areas of their practice, an approach called Total Practice Solutions.

A separate multi-year agreement renews an eight - year relationship between the companies establishing LRN as the exclusive provider of Expert Legal Research and Analysis to the DuPont corporate law department and its outside counsel.

In many respects, the legal research companies are reacting to the increasing freedom of information in much the same way that music and video distributors are reacting to file - sharing — except the legal - research companies have no real legitimate proprietary claims to the information at all: they're just accustomed to being the only game in town.

By 1973, however, I.B.M., the government and the university had withdrawn support for the project, and Lawford and von Briesen had established their own company, «QL Systems,» to pursue what they feared someone else would pursue — the commercial computerization of the lawBill Rogers, «Quicklaw founder a trailblazer in online legal research — Hugh Lawford's on - line research database turns 25» The Lawyers Weekly 18:24 (30 October 1998)..

Last year's Best Legal Advisers research generated responses from 1,000 GCs, in - house lawyers and senior executives from top UK and international companies, resulting in a list of the top 20 best legal adviLegal Advisers research generated responses from 1,000 GCs, in - house lawyers and senior executives from top UK and international companies, resulting in a list of the top 20 best legal advilegal advisers.

The new research by Timico also found that just 8 % of companies said that employees were fully aware of the legal implications of MiFID II and had received training on the processes required to be compliant.

And, (as of August 2017), a legal tech company called BestOne Information & Technology Co., Ltd has gained some attention in the field of legal research and is understood to be using AI technology.

Mr. Whitney's representative work includes a series of successful outcomes pursuing false advertising claims against product review websites, a landmark victory clarifying copyright fair use and parody on behalf of several well - known musicians; a defense win dismissing copyright infringement claims brought by a putative class of attorneys against the leading legal research websites; a favorable outcome for a high - end beauty products company in a trademark and trade dress action against a manufacturer of knock - off products; a district and appellate court decision dismissing all claims by a proposed class against an international bank for alleged violations of, among other things, the Federal False Marking Act, RICO and the CAN - SPAM Act; and counseling prominent art museums and galleries on domestic and international copyright issues.

Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of legal services as agents to North American lawyers at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are document review or analysis, large drafting projects or legal research or client bulletins that do not require specific «local» knowledge).

A few weeks ago, in a post here about Fastcase's addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I wrote that for any legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw and LexisNexis, «secondary content is the Holy Grail.»

Every year since 2011, the legal research company Fastcase has honored the «Fastcase 50,» a selection of individuals it considers to be the «smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.»