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A new report from the NCSC and IAALS highlights how enforcing court rules that require expedited actions can improve fairness, cost, and efficiency in the civil justice system while also relieving case backlogs exacerbated by the pandemic.

Our annual survey offers organizations and individuals a roadmap on addressing the challenges and opportunities surrounding the legal industry's well-being. For the first time, in-house attorneys are also encouraged to fill out the survey.

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"At a global level it's the least stupid privacy law we have so far," Max Schrems said of the GDPR during the Wednesday morning keynote at the IAPP 2023 Global Privacy Summit. He added, "It's just not precise enough in many areas."

The Colorado Supreme Court has approved a program to license a new tier of legal service providers, who will be able to practice in certain types of family law matters such as divorce, custody, and protection orders.

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What legal teams need to effectively address challenges around shifting compliance and data privacy regulations is "data sustainability" woven into their organization's governance framework.

Chatbots capabilities have significantly grown —but so too have law firms concerns with the format.

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At the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023 in D.C., data privacy stakeholders from academia, technology companies, the White House and the European Union Parliament, discussed the state of trans-Atlantic privacy and what more needs to be done.

Lawyers tend to be ahead of the curve when it comes to the mastery of language, while notoriously slow in adopting new technologies that can significantly enhance the process of language analysis during eDiscovery. With advancing AI and machine learning tools, linguists can help fill that gap.

Leaving all the responsibility to individual custodians, and assuming data is the same everywhere, won't likely resonate well in today's modern e-discovery disputes.