Attorney at Work

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ninety-five percent of us procrastinate. That's what professor Piers Steel reported in his book "The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done." So, the question isn't whether we procrastinate. The question is how negatively does it impact our lives? Here are some ideas for reducing the impact of procrastination in your life, assuming you are among the 95 percent.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2024

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art. The two nearly identical final judgments were entered in favor of the photographer plaintiffs’ claims that Prince and the exhibiting galleries willfully infringed on their photographs, and the court dismissed all t

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Ethicking

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hi, folks, It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Sorry to say, it’s going to be awhile yet, as things are busy here. In the meantime, my January column for the Wisconsin Lawyer is out; this time, I discuss all those little conflicts life deals.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2024

It was little more than a month ago when the Biden Administration unleashed its draft guidelines for applying the march-in provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act. For more than 43 years, the law was implemented as written. Every Administration—including the Biden Administration—rejected repeated attempts to misuse the law so the government could license copiers when critics felt that a product based on a federally-funded invention was too expensive.

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Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?