The Justice Department is elevating data security into a core national-security enforcement priority, with new public messaging and implementation activity around the federal government’s effort to restrict sensitive U.S. data from reaching foreign adversaries. While privacy and cybersecurity lawyers have been tracking the issue for months, the latest developments make clear that this is no longer a theoretical compliance problem:…
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The EPA has finalized a settlement with Denka Performance Elastomer, LLC over alleged hazardous-waste mismanagement and chloroprene-related violations at the company’s LaPlace, Louisiana facility, closing out claims brought under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. While RCRA settlements are not unusual on their own, this one stands out because EPA framed waste-handling deficiencies as part of a broader set of…
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Key takeaways

  • Active listening helps lawyers build trust and better understand clients, witnesses, and colleagues.
  • Questioning assumptions improves decision-making and helps avoid misunderstandings.
  • Creative problem-solving improves when judgment is suspended and ideas are explored before being evaluated.
  • Adaptability and communication help lawyers navigate uncertainty, difficult conversations, and changing circumstances.
  • Human skills like listening, collaboration, creativity, and resilience

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From : Blog Entry >> William’s Blog EntryPlease enjoy this blog post co-authored by William Grady, Director of Information Technology, Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford LLP, and Nancy Jeng, Co-founder, Billables AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing how law firms capture time. In the first article in this series, How AI Is Transforming Time Capture in Law…
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How would you rate your most recent interaction with the Illinois court system? The Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois Judicial Conference want to know.
The Illinois Judicial Branch is requesting feedback from lawyers, their clients, and members of the public about their recent court experiences through the Illinois Circuit Court User Experience Survey.
The survey…
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Deposition transcripts provide insight into an attorney’s questioning techniques, strategies, and how they manage witness uncertainty, revealing crucial dynamics not evident in typical court records.
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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has resumed a targeted Hart-Scott-Rodino review process, an important signal that federal merger scrutiny remains active and potentially more exacting for certain transactions. While this development is not tied to a single headline-grabbing court fight, it matters because the HSR process is the front door to U.S. merger enforcement: changes in how the government screens…
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Audit trails have an interesting reputation problem.
When everything works as expected, nobody talks about them. They’re buried in admin panels, exported into reports, and rarely discussed outside compliance reviews.
Yet the moment a decision is questioned, an approval is disputed, or a record’s integrity comes under scrutiny, the audit trail suddenly becomes one of the most important assets an…
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The Long Island serial-killer prosecution is expected to reach a major procedural milestone Wednesday, when the defendant is sentenced in New York state court. Under the reported plea arrangement, a life sentence is anticipated, bringing one of the region’s most closely watched homicide cases to its formal punishment phase.

For criminal practitioners, the sentencing marks more than the end of…
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Legora today (29 July) announced that it is acquiring London-based startup Wexler, which uses large language models to help lawyers extract and organise key data from documents relevant to their […]
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Skechers U.S.A., Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00444 on July 24, 2026. As of the initial filing, the PTAB docket reflects the petitioner as Skechers, but practitioners will want to watch the case closely for the full petition, the identification of the challenged patent, the patent owner’s response,…
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