For some employees of legal tech companies, the holidays have been far from merry, as their employers have trimmed headcounts and sent out layoff notices.

The exact number of layoffs in legal tech are unknown. It is difficult to track and confirm layoffs, as companies are often secretive about them. Although, in the U.S., the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to report layoffs, it generally applies only to employers of 100 or more employees that layoff 50 or more employees.

So, although this may not be a comprehensive list of recent legal tech layoffs, here are the ones that have been reported.

Contractbook. Two weeks ago, Niels Martin Brochner, founder and CEO of the Danish contract lifecycle management company Contractbook, took to LinkedIn to announce the layoff of 32 employees.

“Like many other companies in our industry, we must reduce our headcount

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The envelope please: the award for American law’s worst moment of 2022 goes to the United States Supreme Court for its decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

because law’s infamous rulings generally do not fly below the radarit is hardly a surprise to name Dobbswhich has already been subject to the most criticism. But surprising or not, it is still important to name the damage it did to countless millions of people and to the Court itself.

while Dobbs is my choice as law’s worst moment of the year, there were others that I seriously considered for this dubious recognition.

They include two Supreme Court decisions, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency.

Surprisingly even the Heritage Foundation recognized that Justice Clarence Thomas’s decision in the New York gun case (that the text of

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Olga MackOlga V. Mack is the VP at LexisNexis and CEO of Parley Pro, a next-generation contract management company that has pioneered online negotiation technology. Olga embraces legal innovation and had dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She is convinced that the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive than before by embracing technology. Olga is also an award-winning general counsel, operations professional, startup advisor, public speaker, adjunct professor, and entrepreneur. She founded the Women Serve on Boards movement that advocates for women to participate on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies. She authored Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board SeatFundamentals of Smart Contract Security, and  Blockchain Value: Transforming Business Models, Society, and Communities. She is working on Visual IQ for Lawyers, her next book (ABA 2023). You can follow Olga on Twitter

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The Vermont Law and Graduate School’s bar exam passage rate does not meet the required level of 75%, the American Bar Association said this week. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Too many graduates of Vermont Law and Graduate School are failing the bar exam, the American Bar Association said this week.

under ABA rules, 75% of law school graduates who attempt the bar exam must pass it within two years in order for their alma mater to maintain its accreditation.

But the newly renamed Vermont Law and Graduate School’s most recent two-year bar passage rate was just shy of 68%.

Of the school’s 114 law students who graduated in 2019, only 77 had passed the bar by 2021, according to data submitted to the ABA.

On Tuesday, ABA officials posted notice that Vermont Law School was one of three schools that were out of compliance with bar passage requirements.

The

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two men wearing border parol uniforms stand along dirt road with back to the camera. one points into the distance.

Two agents patrol the southern border in Texas in 2021. (Vic Hinterlang via Shutterstock)

Nineteen states came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to keep in place a Trump-era policy that allows immigration officials to quickly expel migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border. The states, led by Arizona, warn the justices that if the court does not block a federal judge’s order that would end the policy on Wednesday, it will “cause a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the border.”

The federal law at the center of the case is known as Title 42 of the Public Health Services Act. It gives the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the power to bar the entry of individuals into the United States to protect the public from contagious diseases. In March 2020, citing the

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By Jonathan Pratter

A classic (no pun intended) bibliography of ancient Greek law is found in the Introduction Bibliographique à l’Histoire du Droit et à l’Ethnologie Juridique, a multi-volume bibliography of legal history published between 1963 and 1988 under the editorship of J. Gilissen by the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Because of its fine-grained organization by subject, this bibliography doubles as a research guide. For example, the section on private law is divided into sub-sections on general works, slavery, family law, property law, obligations, commercial law, and private international law. The reader can learn a lot about the structure of ancient Greek law just by consulting this bibliography. Alas, the section on ancient Greek law in the Introduction Bibliographique was last updated in 1967.

What more current bibliographies of ancient Greek law do we find today? There are some; two of them are online. NOMOI, hosted by Simon

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RALEIGH — The Campbell University School of Law will no longer participate in the US News and World Report’s Best Law Schools ranking.

Dean J. Rich Leonard announced the decision to faculty, staff and students on Monday in an email. Leonard’s statement cited concerns with both the ranking’s purpose and methodologies, among others.

The statement follows: “The Campbell Law School faculty has decided not to participate this year in the US News and World Report’s Best Law Schools rankings. We are not opposed to objective rankings, but the reputational aspect of the US News rankings has always undervalued strong regional law schools. Additionally, the rankings do not sufficiently consider the most critical factors for prospective students, such as bar passage and employment outcomes. We believe objective evaluations that value factors like these better serve prospective students.

“As an example of the difference between objective and subjective rankings, in 2015

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Bankruptcy LawyersFile Chapter 7 Chapter in Atlanta with ZERO MONEY DOWN. Or, why not enhance and work reporting, exposing and designing well being operations and facilities-educating and enabling and making these to be easily accessible to the armies of the poor Africans? My point: African individuals want to start to speak from being active in our milieu than trying to precise themselves immaculately and colloquially in medium equivalent to these, thus exposing their weaknesses and lack of knowledge as to what they actually do not know to one and all.

The police and plenty of authorities sectors are affected by ‘tribalism’ in hiring and functioning of these institutions. There’s a lot corruption, that many individuals are left bamboozled, gawking in horror as our bothers and sisters give themselves to selling out their people, and never caring a rat’s ass about their actions and their outcomes. We’ve a very callous elite which …

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By Connie Chang, Knowledge Management Research Analyst at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

Editor’s Note: We are happy to post two takes on a recent course on “Managing Your Work Environment” offered by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and facilitated by Judith Millesen, Ph.D.  Both authors were recipients of grants from the Private Law Librarians and Information Professionals (PLLIP) section of AALL.  Thank you to Connie and Janet for taking the time to share their thoughts on their experiences and takeaways from the course.

Thanks to a grant from the Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals Special Interest Section (PLLIP-SIS), I attended the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) course, “Managing Your Work Environment.”  The course focused on team development and interpersonal skills.  It was held over three weeks (Sept. 13 to Oct. 4, 2022).  There was also some pre-course work on the importance of having a growth mindset

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Dive Briefs:

  • The Campbell University School of Law announced this week it will not participate in US News & World Report’s Best Law Schools rankings, joining many other institutions spurning the list over equity-related concerns.
  • Unlike law schools that initially rejected the rankings, which included those at Yale and Harvard universities, Campbell’s school fell toward the bottom of US News’ index.
  • Experts have said mid- and low-tier law schools have more to lose by joining the rankings revolt, as the higher-placed schools have well-known reputations and will likely suffer little fallout from their decisions.

Dive Insights:

Ivy League institutions Yale and Harvard shook the higher education world in mid-November when they said they would no longer submit data to US News for its influential rankings.

While colleges often tout their high placement

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