Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 80: Lessons from Learning a New Language that Apply to Bar Study
When it comes to eDiscovery, term translation isn't just about converting words from one language into another. It's a highly specialized process that requires a nuanced understanding of both linguistics and technical search...more
It’s the season of love – for eDiscovery case law! In our February 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog we will discuss disputes related to cross-border disputes and the Hague Convention,...more
The United States is a big melting pot of cultures, ethnicities, and languages. This diversity is great for business, but if you are advertising that your business speaks "Spanish" or that your business can assist customers...more
In today’s globalized landscape, legal translation is often necessary for everything from courtroom proceedings to contract negotiations. However, legal translation goes beyond just changing words from one language to...more
Few document services reach stakes as significant as legal translation does. As a field that necessarily hyper-focuses on specific word choice, meanings, precedents, and more, dotting i’s and crossing t’s rarely matters as...more
The increasing globalization of business, through Internet-based commerce and the activities of multinational corporations, has made it more likely than ever that litigators in U.S. courts will be confronted with documents...more
Today, in the United States, the number of people who speak Spanish or a language other than English is growing rapidly. According to the United States Census, about 68 million people do not speak English at home....more
In-depth merger control reviews are intense and time-pressured matters. As a result, merging companies and their advisors are challenged to meet regulators’ ever-growing demands for internal documents. When a regulator...more
When a person hears of an incident, the common understanding is that it happened locally, or nationally. However, there are situations that encompass land and water borders, affecting people from different locations and...more
We live in a global environment where commercial disputes, white-collar crime, and antitrust issues frequently cross international borders. There are thousands of non-English e-discovery litigations and investigations every...more
Cross-border M&A deals reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021. Many of these transactions were subjected to merger clearance proceedings in the US and/or abroad. As a result, an unprecedented number of US second...more
This past May, the Quebec government adopted Bill 96, with the intention of ultimately strengthening the Quebec language laws and preserving the French language. Although businesses with more than 50 employees were already...more
A new Nevada law that becomes effective on October 1, 2021 requires translated documents to be provided to consumers by businesses that advertise and negotiate transactions covered by the law in a language other than English...more
If you read our previous blog on multi-language ediscovery, you’re aware of the challenges faced when dealing with international matters. Searching across languages with the same degree of accuracy and proportionality can be...more
Petitioners beware – the Board holds you to what is submitted on filing day for required documents. In Shenzhen Aurora Technology Company, Ltd. v. Putco, Inc., IPR2020-00670, “[t]he Petition relies on foreign language...more
The rate information is generated continues to increase exponentially. By 2020, the digital universe will be 44 zettabytes large, meaning there will be “40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe.”...more
On June 16, 2020, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced the availability of COVID-19 resources for mortgage loan borrowers....more
Join ACEDS at this year's Tokyo Summit! Dr. Kenzo Fujisue, Member of House of Councillors (Upper House), Japanese Parliament, will be this year's Keynote Address on "Cyber Security in the Age of Big Data - The State of...more
A party to an inter partes review may submit supplemental information within one month of institution if the party can show that the supplemental information is “relevant to a claim for which the trial has been instituted.”...more
In this issue: - THE THREE C’S — CONFIDENCE, CREDIBILITY AND COST - WHO CONDUCTS THE INVESTIGATION? - SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION - MINDSET AT THE OUTSET OF AN INVESTIGATION - THE NEED FOR SPEED ...more