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Is it a true trust if settlor has reserved a right to revoke it?

Classic equity doctrine. By the 1940s, it was settled law that a funded revocable inter vivos trust with multiple beneficiaries was a true trust. See Nat’l Shawmut Bnk v. Joy, 53 N.E.2nd 113 (1944). It was not merely a failed...more

ModeOne

BYOD Collection Without the Drama

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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is no longer a trend. It’s the default. But while the way we work has evolved, the way we collect mobile data in litigation and investigations… hasn’t....more

Secretariat

Agentic AI as Evidence: When Autonomous Systems Become Witnesses in Investigations

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Artificial intelligence in 2026 is defined by the rise of “agentic AI,” or “AI agents”, systems with varying levels of autonomy that are “able to perceive, reason, and act on their own.”...more

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What Marketing Attribution Should Look Like for Law Firms

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Most law firm marketing leaders already know their tracking is incomplete. The question is usually where to start, and the answer keeps getting deferred because the options feel either too simple to matter or too complex to...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

From Competence to Judgment: How AI Compresses Litigation Work and Why That Makes Judgment More Important

Artificial intelligence has entered legal practice with unusual speed and reach. Within a brief period, tools that can organize information, generate analysis, and structure legal arguments have become embedded across...more

Law School Toolbox

Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 347: Listen and Learn -- Duty of Confidentiality (Professional Responsibility)

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're discussing one of the most tested subtopics of professional responsibility -- the duty of a lawyer to maintain the confidentiality of all information relating to the...more

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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 551: Listen and Learn -- Warranties and Disclaimers Under the UCC (Contracts)

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we're discussing contract law – specifically, warranties and the disclaimer of warranties under the UCC. We explain both express and implied warranties and how they can be...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Podcast - The "Referee" of the Judicial System

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Order in the courtroom determines whether justice can move forward. In this episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook," litigation attorney Dan Small examines the essential role judges play in the adversarial system through his...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Supposed to Reduce Risk. Why Does It Feel Like the Opposite?

Last month, I wrote about a question many general counsel are beginning to hear from business leadership: If our outside counsel is using AI, should our legal spend be going down?...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Court Suggests That Opposing Counsel Also Failed to Check Citations

Do lawyers have an obligation not only to verify their own citations, but also to catch their opponents “hallucinated” authorities? A recent Seventh Circuit decision suggests that the answer may be edging toward yes....more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

What Shifting Partner Billing Rates Mean for Corporate Legal Departments in 2026 Negotiations

Law firm partner billing rates across the AmLaw market continue to rise, but beneath those increases lies a more nuanced pricing landscape that corporate legal departments must navigate strategically....more

Secretariat

Navigating the New Enforcement Frontier: U.S. SEC & DOJ Trends and Impacts Across Asia-Pacific

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In-house counsels across Asia-Pacific are increasingly operating at the intersection of two powerful forces. Under the current Trump administration, U.S. enforcement priorities are shifting, while the regional regulatory...more

LegalMation

The Human + AI Workplace: Redefining Legal Work in the Age of Automation

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Walk into any forward-thinking legal department today and you’ll see a landscape rapidly changing before your eyes. Gone are the days of wall-to-wall case files and marathon review sessions....more

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Why Federal Rule 107 Matters for Your Trial Presentations

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Take a moment, close your eyes, and imagine this: You have just been selected to serve on a jury. You begrudgingly enter the courtroom, take your seat in the jury box, and begin watching the persuasive battle unfold....more

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Navigating Career Pitfalls and Possibilities in an AI Era

Artificial intelligence is transforming the legal industry, but not in the “robots will take our jobs” way, at least according to the perspectives shared in a recent ACEDS webinar titled “Navigating Career Pitfalls and...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

From Information to Experience: How Law Firms Can Deliver Real Value in a Saturated Content Market - On Record PR

As law firms produce more content than ever, audiences are becoming more selective with their time. In this episode, International Faculty member Valerie Madamba joins Jennifer Simpson Carr to discuss the shift from...more

9Sail

How to Vet a Legal PR Agency for Authority Links: Questions, KPIs, and Red Flags

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Too many law firm CMOs have been through a version of the same experience: they hired an agency that listed “link building” as a core service, received monthly reports showing links acquired, and discovered months later that...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST – 2026 To Do: HIPAA Compliance

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On this episode of Williams Mullen’s Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by Nathan Kottkamp, partner in Williams Mullen’s Health Care Section, to break down what HIPAA really means for employers. Brydon and...more

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2026 To Do: HIPAA Compliance

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On this episode of Williams Mullen’s Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by Nathan Kottkamp, partner in Williams Mullen’s Health Care Section, to break down what HIPAA really means for employers. Brydon and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Celebrating 50 Episodes of Real Talk

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In this special 50th episode of The Women’s Initiative Network: Real Talk, original hosts Nicole Fulfree, Megan Monson, and Rachel Moseson Dikovics are joined by Amanda K. Cipriano to reflect on the podcast’s evolution. From...more

ModeOne

From Custodian to Counsel in Under a Day: Real Timelines with ModeOne

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In litigation and investigations, timelines matter. When legal teams need mobile data, they’re rarely asking for it because everything is calm and predictable. ...more

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Complicated vs. Complex: Why Professionals Keep Solving the Wrong Problem

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Arthur Brooks draws a distinction that should make every professional stop and think. There are two fundamentally different categories of problems in the world, and confusing one for the other is one of the most common...more

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service

Four Reasons Why— Besides Billable Hours — Attorneys Shouldn’t Write Their Own Thought Leadership

Just because attorneys have traditionally written their own thought leadership doesn’t mean they should have — or that they were qualified to do so. They shouldn’t — and most of them aren’t. Throughout history, there are...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

What It Means to Be Technology Competent in 2026

When the ethical duty of technology competence officially arrived in 2012, courtesy of new Comment 8 to Rule 1.1 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the expectations were relatively modest. Much has changed since...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

The AI Sanction Wave: $145K in Q1 Penalties Signals Courts Have Lost Patience with GenAI Filing Failures

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: AI-generated hallucinations in court filings have crossed the threshold from embarrassing anomalies to a measurable enforcement trend. In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. courts imposed at least...more

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