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AI amplifies efficiency, but efficiency alone does not win or keep clients. What matters is the synthesis of technology, judgment, responsiveness, pricing philosophy, and industry fluency. Firms that embody this blend will not merely keep pace; they will lead.

While the types of awards and rankings run the gamut, there are universal writing principles that bolster the chances of winning any recognition requiring a written submission. Here are six writing tips to improve and enhance legal rankings and awards submission writing.

The legal view of artificial intelligence (AI) transactions is evolving. However, such development does not change the fact that AI transaction legal assessment is best commenced by applying the fact that AI is software to the evaluation. Doing so is likely to make such analysis faster, more accurate and more robust.

These decisions continue the Article III judiciary’s effort to calibrate the proper scope of bankruptcy court power in cases involving sophisticated parties and prepackaged plans, dispensing with equitable mootness and ruling on the merits of appeals.

While antitrust law around algorithmic pricing is still developing, these decisions and settlements offer some key lessons and suggested guideposts for assessing the risks associated with the sale or use of algorithmic pricing software. Key takeaways follow.

Every decision to onboard a client, partner, lateral hire, contractor, consultant or expert witness carries risk. Yet many firms continue to rely on onboarding practices that have not kept pace with the digital world in which their clients and people operate.

The commercial real estate mortgage loan is in default. The defaults are material. Discussions have occurred among lender, borrower and their representatives. There’s been a forbearance agreement, or several. The loan has been “extended,” pretending time will be the panacea. “Extend and pretend” has failed. The lender has remedies. This article describes those remedies.

Although often analyzed separately, these two systems are best understood together: corporate law establishes the conditions for risk, while bankruptcy law provides the rules for allocating losses when those risks fail. Here, we briefly compare the underlying philosophies of each and highlight their points of tension and complementarity.