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What Is a Litigator? And the Differences From a Lawyer

CaseFox

The legal profession is a complex and multifaceted field, comprising various roles that serve distinct purposes. Among these roles, lawyers and litigators often create confusion due to their similarities. They handle a wide range of legal matters, including contract drafting, negotiations, and legal documentation.

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NFT Copyright Issues: What Lawyers Need to Know

MatterSuite

It’s very important to educate the client on the pertinent NFT owners’ rights and provide creators with the required protections over their intellectual property. The absence of particular and transparent licensing laws may be a source of people being confused and litigation at the end.

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Meta’s Threads: A Primer for Lawyers

Clio

Twitter has taken note of Meta’s Threads—and responded by threatening to bring litigation against Meta for misappropriating trade secrets and intellectual property. While we are yet to see the outcome of this potential litigation, it’s clear that the new app’s popularity is ruffling Twitter’s feathers.

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The Future of Legal Tech: How Technology Is Transforming the Business of Law

MatterSuite

E-Discovery and Document Management Electronic Discovery: E-discovery platforms such as RelativityOne and Everlaw automate the identification, collection, and analysis of electronic documents during litigation. These platforms are accessible 24/7, making legal services more affordable and convenient.

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Becoming a Legal Consultant: What You Need to Know

Clio

While legal consultants do not represent clients in court (as a lawyer would), they do help clients to make sound legal decisions, understand complex legal issues, and ensure compliance with the law. If the reality of long lawyer working hours is a drawback to practicing law, then legal consulting may appeal to you.

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Regulating IP in the Metaverse with Professor Molly Van Houweling

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Her recent scholarly work includes “The New Private Law and Intellectual Property,” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (2020); and “Intellectual Property as Property,” in the Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (2019).

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The Secret Weapon: Leveraging Patent Agents to Gain a Competitive Edge – Shayne Phillips (TGIR Ep. 186)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Anything that becomes much more transactional or litigation or anything like that is of course moves over to the realm of the attorney. So they might accidentally remove the ability to to obtain intellectual property rights. But that really kind of ends their responsibility or their their allowed ability to help clients.

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