Last week Thomson Reuters announced the launch of Westlaw Form Builder: Westlaw Form Builder has been launched—an online document assembly tool that helps attorneys find, assemble and review legal forms with greater speed and accuracy. Attorneys can access more than 20,000 forms anytime and anywhere they have an Internet connection. Forms are customizable, continually updated by Westlaw editors, and have … Read More
I’m revising the guidance to Koncision’s confidentiality-agreement template to note that being bound by a confidentiality agreement might not preclude an employee from acting as a whistleblower and disclosing information that might otherwise be covered by the confidentiality agreement. In that regard, consider section 21F-17(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which implements the Dodd-Frank Act’s securities whistleblower provisions. … Read More
Paul Lippe, the driving force behind Legal OnRamp, writes a blog for the ABA Journal. The most recent post, available here, is entitled “What Aspects of Legal Services Are Most Likely to Get Standardized?” Here’s the bit that caught my eye: Standardization is not the same as “commoditization,” that great bugaboo of lawyers (I’m not sure what ‘commoditization” is, and … Read More
