On January 11, 2024, an administrative law judge for the NLRB issued an opinion holding that the employment agreement used by a major mortgage lender for all of its approximately 6,000 employees violates the... Read more »
TermScout, an AI contract review company, has launched a first-of-its-kind AI marketplace where lawyers and other contracting experts can build and sell their own contract review AIs, developed based on their unique... Read more »
In November, when Thomson Reuters announced the integration of generative AI within its flagship legal research platform Westlaw Precision, it also announced the beta version of a generative AI integration within Practical... Read more »
Redlining is the bane of contract negotiations. The back-and-forth between the parties can drag on and on as they seek to arrive at language on which they both can agree. Even before... Read more »
In October, the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft announced an early-access release of its new generative AI add-in for Microsoft Word, called VerifAI, designed to help lawyers streamline the process of reviewing contracts.... Read more »
On December 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor issued final regulations requiring the so-called “nondisplacement” of workers performing work on contracts for the federal government under the Service Contract Act (SCA).... Read more »
All photos are courtesy of 32BJ/Ann Hermes. More than 12,000 janitorial workers across New England represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ reached a tentative contract agreement on Wednesday, November... Read more »
The Biden administration’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence “applies a 73-year-old national security law to oversee the booming industry,” Bloomberg Law reports. The law, called the Defense Production Act, was passed... Read more »
Atlanta attorney Rick Warren was quoted in the Law360 article, “6th Circ. Case Highlights Belo Contract Litigation Risks.” The article discusses a Sixth Circuit case involving a company in the oil and... Read more »
Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo announced on Sunday that he will hold a referendum to determine the fate of a contentious mining contract. Cortizo also said late last week that he was placing... Read more »