Sentences with phrase «recent legal trends»

I have a small staff of writers who are eager to explore recent legal trends and are looking for a palette for their creativity.

Moot, but in line with recent legal trends.

Not exact matches

Hemp seeds are definitely on trend at the moment thanks to their recent legalisation in Australia — up until recently hemp seeds were not legal for use or sale in Oz.

The Saratoga County action is a glaring example of a disturbing recent trend where counties have flaunted legal obligations, circumvented normal open meeting requirements and engaged in irregular bidding practices.

After years of easy - to - spot trends, the most recent surge of school - finance activity in state courts and legislatures finds some states retrenching while others confront fresh legal challenges.

«Mainly summaries of and commentary about recent 7th Circuit and Wisconsin cases; also, occasional posts about cases making national news, cases in other jurisdictions that may impact legal trends, and legislative developments.»

LBW readers have probably seen recent examples of this trend in your own legal blog watching, and Balasubramani provides links to a handful that he has encountered, as well:

Our presentation topic was building an effective web presence in the legal industry, and the issues covered included: some recent trends & adoption rates; the basics of lawyer SEO and link building tactics; and how lawyers & firms can participate... more»

He wrote that he'd «like to caution the legal industry about possibly having a knee - jerk reaction to the latest business development trend du jour, perhaps in response to the serious and ongoing challenges of a global market that has produced flat or lower demand for legal services in recent years.»

While the legal industry is not adopting Internet technologies on the scale or pace of many other sectors, recent trends are encouraging.

As an example of this trend towards shorter, mostly online legal scholarship, consider the recent tit for tat between Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner on the one hand, and Judge Posner on the other, regarding Judge Posner's review of Justice Scalia's and Garner's new book on statutory interpretation: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Tlegal scholarship, consider the recent tit for tat between Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner on the one hand, and Judge Posner on the other, regarding Judge Posner's review of Justice Scalia's and Garner's new book on statutory interpretation: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal TLegal Texts.

Although I think lawyers have always «done» legal project management (not always well), I also think the recent buzz on the topic is related to the economy and the recent emphasis within the legal profession on changing trends and the need to do legal project management better.

This trend underpins recent findings from Aderant's 2014 Legal Technology Industry Survey, the results of which were released at the LawTech Atlanta event.

In a much more cost - conscious climate, the recent trend is for a higher proportion of legal work to be kept in - house; the scope of legal work to be extended; and new non-legal work from non-traditional areas such as risk, compliance and strategy to be piled on lawyers» plates.

Joanna Birenbaum, the legal director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, said her group was pleased with the result after noticing a recent trend of the Crown charging women with murder rather than infantilegal director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, said her group was pleased with the result after noticing a recent trend of the Crown charging women with murder rather than infantiLegal Education and Action Fund, an intervener in the case, said her group was pleased with the result after noticing a recent trend of the Crown charging women with murder rather than infanticide.

Although there is no comprehensive national survey to buttress their view or to document the extent of savings for clients, «anecdotal evidence and our own recent, small - scale survey confirm the trend that we perceived: law firms increasingly moving to alternative billing approaches at clients» request,» said Richard C. Reed, who is a consultant at Altman Weil Pensa, a Philadelphia - based legal management consulting firm, as well as chairman of the American Bar Association's alternative billing task force.

Publishing trends are not working in favour of the major legal publishers and their recent financial performance confirms this to be the case — revenue is down and staff cuts and outsourcing have replaced publishing as the primary means of maintaining profit margins.

John Stuttard: Well, Legaltech is a fabulous product and it's a fabulous event, but all products have their life - cycles, and when I joined I was looking at the trends in terms of participation and attendee numbers and sponsor activity and that kind of stuff and I noticed that the legal text sort of format which is predicated on eDiscovery, has reached a plateau where eDiscovery has become so mainstream that I think it's well understood by the legal community and it's fairly recent, if you go back 10 years it was a very new and interesting and important technology driving a lot of development in the industry, but in the meantime what ALM built was the single largest collection of individuals from the legal sector at any one event, which is very interesting to me because it's only based on really the technology elements of the legal industry.

Hence, recent trends towards placing greater responsibility upon companies by means of legal regulation are designed to «persuade» them to develop practices and due diligence - based systems, which are aimed at making wrong - doing less likely.

A significant legal trend in recent years has been a dramatic increase in the number of companies attempting to bring more of the e-discovery process in house.

CA: Have there been any recent trends in the legal market which you have found are having a significant effect upon Milbank?

Maintaining the trend of recent years, asset manager and funds continue to be a growth sector for in - house legal roles.

The trend documented in this article is further confirmed by the results of the most recent Chief - Legal - Officer survey conducted by A&W, who believe (for the last 5 years) that their outside counsel firms do not have the desire or will to significantly change their methods and practices.

It will cover recent legal developments and emerging trends in construction claims and related insurance coverage issues.

Legal 500 kept up the pace through 2016, continuing its trend in recent years of broadening its offering beyond the core directories into a suite of related products and services for in - house lawyers.

There has been a recent trend of newly established legal networks, which serves as an catalyst for greater legal innovation.

Expect next year to see acceleration of recent trends in the legal sector, including the ongoing pressure on hourly rates, as well as demands to improve productivity and efficiency.

This is due in part to the recent Brexit vote, which has amplified many pre-referendum priorities and trends, creating additional demand for legal advice and services.»

According to a recent Altman Weil report, 94 % of legal professionals surveyed felt that improved practice efficiency would be a permanent trend moving forward.

As a result, in addition to posts about recent and noteworthy legal decisions, this blog will also speak to practical litigation issues that frequently accompany trade secret litigation, consider larger societal and technological trends that affect this area, and, finally and perhaps most importantly, speak to administrative and human resources issues that also arise in this context and that need to be considered to protect trade secrets.

The UBE perpetuates a flawed bar exam and is fundamentally inconsistent with recent trends in legal education and the legal profession

Recent acquisitions confirm the trend, with Lexis Nexis (RELX) taking over Intelligize, a business that, split infinitive notwithstanding, «provides a leading analytics solution enabling legal, academic and business professionals to efficiently mine data and insights from SEC filings, M&A contracts, transactional agreements and corporate governance documents».

According to a recent study of the legal profession in Ontario, Canada, the trend of lawyers deferring retirement is most apparent in nonurban areas, and is also more prevalent among sole practictioners — which are «over-represented in the «over 55» age group» — than large firms.

Affectionately known as freeganism, the «trend» was highlighted in a recent case where three men escaped legal action after taking food from the dustbin of their local Iceland store.