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Shutterstock image The legal industry has seen significant changes in recent years. Legal professionals are starting to think differently about the business of law, focusing on new models for driving value, efficiency and effectiveness. Even compared to just two years ago, change is happening faster than ever and on far more sophisticated levels for corporate legal departments and legal opera...

WASHINGTON — Senior congressional Democrats urged the Treasury Department to move faster to implement a law passed last year cracking down on anonymous shell companies ahead of a fast-approaching deadline. Passed by Congress in late 2020 with veto-proof majorities, the Corporate Transparency Act requires that businesses report their beneficial ownership directly to the Financial Crimes Enforc...

REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji A new Thomson Reuters Institute report shows that while small law firms seemed to have ridden out the pandemic crisis well, some challenges still remain. Small law firms have largely recovered from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and are looking forward to building on the future, according to the report released today by the Thomson Reuters Institute. However, that do...

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The legislation abolishes the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate over kashrut supervision. Kashrut certificate in Jerusalem, July 21, 2021. Dramatic reforms to the provision of kashrut services have passed into law after the Budget Arrangements Law was passed in the Knesset on Thursday. The legislation will likely have a historic impact on the provision of kashrut supervision, and influence furt...

This is the most comprehensive overhaul of Commerce regula�ons since 1997, when new regula�ons were issued to ins�tute changes arising from the World Trade Organiza�on agreements and accompanying revisions to the statute in 1994. The current modifica�ons will have the most substan�ve impact on importers as they relate to new shipper reviews, scope rulings, an�-circumven�on proceedings, covere...

For those interested in knowing whether the New York City “Guaranty Law,” which was enacted by the City Council in May 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, will survive a challenge to its constitutionality, the wait continues. In December 2020 we wrote here about the decision by Judge Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in Melendez v....

Image from Shutterstock. A shortage of associates in California’s Bay Area is leading some law firms to turn down work and others to strain available lawyers with the workload, according to a report by the Recorder. Some firms continue to take on work because they want to preserve client relationships Some, however, think they have no choice other than to turn down opportunities, according to...

Following the passage of the so-called “anti-Google law” in South Korea, Google has announced it will comply with the new mandate by giving Android app developers on Google Play the ability to offer alternative payment systems alongside Google’s own. The legislation represents the first time a government has been able to force app stores to open up to third-party payment systems for in-app pu...

Abigail Mulligan Helping people facing eviction during the pandemic rocked Abigail Mulligan's world as she dealt with the in-person reality of what she'd studied in class. Mulligan works as a legal assistant for the United Community Housing Coalition in Detroit, where the staff helps represent people in landlord-tenant court for free and deals with the COVID Emergency Rental Assistance progra...