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On May 10, 2023, I attended the Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) live CLE event "2023 Life Sciences Conference: Future-Ready Resilience: Preparing to Face Challenges in the Uncertain Future." Eric Long, executive vice president at Newfront, closed the panel on "Insuring Life Sciences: Smart...

The battle against corporate crime intensifies as the UK government seeks to weaponise its incoming legislation. The ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence will require every large business to have ‘reasonable procedures in place to prevent fraud’ so as to avoid being potentially hit with an unlimited...

The Corporate Counsel Summit in Sydney, hosted by Lawyers Weekly, brought together more than 300 legal professionals from various industries to discuss the evolving role of in-house lawyers and the emerging challenges they face. Tom Balmer, Director for TransPerfect Legal APAC, joined the summit as...

In the run-up to the TransPerfect Legal in-person event (The Future of EU...

In the last ten years, more data and greater computing power have led to a boom in AI-related patent applications, with life and medical sciences emerging as a top application field. In 2021, more than 100 applications submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration contained artificial...

Big Data Background While the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics in e-discovery can often seem like a black box, our webinar on Advanced Analytics & AI in Complex Litigations & Investigations from January 2023 aimed to break down the various technologies and...

Every law school graduate understands the importance of competence in the practice of law. It is not only essential to client service but a mandatory requirement under professional rules of responsibility. Recently, several courts have sanctioned attorneys (and their clients) for failing to meet...

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule that would prohibit new and require the rescission of all non-compete agreements as an “unfair method of competition.” The proposed rule defines a non-compete agreement as “a contractual term between an employer and employee...

Discovery is the largest time and cost component of civil litigation. As the volume of documents in scope increases exponentially, teams need to manage them as “quickly, inexpensively, and efficiently as possible” (to quote the Federal Court rules). One area commonly overlooked, which can...

ChatGPT is the “revolutionary” AI tool everyone is talking about. From composing songs and writing college-level essays to finding and fixing bugs in code, the chatbot is both wowing and worrying the tech industry.

Multi-District Litigation (MDL) is a complex judicial tool to create efficiency within the court system and consolidate matters from various jurisdictions into one. For those MDLs that traverse the country–opioid most recently and tobacco a few decades ago–the formula should include a documented...

Just over one month into the new year, TransPerfect Legal Directors Tom Balmer and Stefan Nigam have joined forces to discuss the trends shaping global eDiscovery in 2023. Whether it is streamlining document disclosure through AI or collecting data from blockchain, this year will be full of...