Author: Olive Metuge

Transactional lawyers spend significant amounts of time working with documents. When drafting legal documents, precision matters; and ensuring that statutory and technical requirements are satisfied is essential. Clients rely on their lawyers to cross the T’s and dot the I’s, both literally and figuratively, and a wide range of tools are available to support document creation and related workflows. While general-purpose drafting tools may be sufficient in some contexts, practice-specific software often becomes necessary to improve efficiency and reduce risk in more complex and highly regulated areas of law, including trust and estates planning. For trust and estate law firms,…

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Sponsored: Inside Le Clos’ cinematic exploration of Scotch whiskyLuxury retailer Le Clos is taking things well beyond the bottle with the launch of Explorations by Le Clos, a new cinematic content series that dives into the people, places and stories behind some of the world’s most exceptional wines and spirits.The debut film, Explorations: A Journey Through Scotch, is now live and it’s a proper love letter to Scotland’s whisky heritage.Beyond the bottleThis isn’t about selling a product. Explorations by Le Clos is a premium storytelling series that peels back the label to reveal what really makes a bottle special, from…

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Leaders in the Colorado marijuana industry have complained in recent years that intoxicating products derived from hemp are endangering consumers and creating unfair competition, threatening to upend the first regulated recreational marijuana market in the United States. While labs have developed the technology to distinguish between hemp and marijuana, the state has been slow to implement a random testing program to check the quality of products on dispensary shelves. In the absence of official testing, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica set out to test whether the claims of widespread hemp substitution were accurate, purchasing 14 vapes at dispensaries across the…

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“When ChatGPT dropped, I saw an answer to a problem I was trying to address all my life,” said Matthew Harvey Sanders.The Torontonian — a serious-mannered 43-year-old in clerical black — stands in the modern library of the Vatican’s Pontifical Oriental Institute. Balconies lined with shelves rise three storeys overhead, housing one of the largest collections of books on Eastern Catholic traditions in the world.It is a fraction of the Catholic Church’s written record: councils and synods, papal encyclicals, official documents and statistical yearbooks tracking baptisms, marriages and ordinations. Sanders is turning that corpus into Magisterium AI, a Catholic-focused artificial…

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Looking for some Supreme Court-themed weekend reading? Consider Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment, a new book on former Justice Robert H. Jackson that’s been highlighted in The Washington Post and Moment Magazine in the past week. And remember that our own Sarah Isgur’s book, Last Branch Standing, is coming in April. If you preorder it before Monday, Feb. 9, you can claim a signed bookplate. Finally, a reminder: we’re hiring! We’re looking for an editor to oversee a new daily newsletter for commercial litigators and corporate counsel that highlights circuit court decisions, relists, denials, en banc grants, and notable…

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Home Daily News Magistrate judge resigns while under ethics… Ethics Magistrate judge resigns while under ethics investigation January 23, 2026, 9:35 am CST A Georgia magistrate judge who resigned last week had been under investigation for allegedly engaging in “extrajudicial activity” with litigants at a rental home that he owns. (Image from Shutterstock) A Georgia magistrate judge who resigned last week had been under investigation for allegedly engaging in “extrajudicial activity” with litigants at a rental home that he owns. The resignation of Judge Bryan Selph, the chief judge of the Telfair County Magistrate Court in Georgia, is part of…

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Sponsored: Ramadan dining unfolds across InterContinental Abu Dhabi Hotel & Residences, from Lebanese classics to tailored corporate IftarsAs the sun sets and the city slows, InterContinental Abu Dhabi Hotel and Residences steps into Ramadan with a spread that feels thoughtful, generous and quietly celebratory. This year, the hotel rolls out a collection of Iftars and Suhoors across its dining venues, residences and event spaces, catering to everyone from families and friends to large corporate gatherings.Byblos Sur Mer, the much loved Lebanese restaurant serves a traditional Iftar that leans into comfort and familiarity, with a carefully curated menu that honours classic…

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Two Alaska school districts filed a lawsuit on Jan. 20 in Anchorage Superior Court against the state, its governor and its education commissioner over what they say is a long-running failure to adequately fund public education. In the complaint, the Kuspuk School District and the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District argue “the state is failing to meet its constitutional obligation” to provide Alaska students “a sound basic education and meaningful opportunity for proficiency” in vital subjects, and to fund schools and school districts sufficiently to do that. The plaintiffs are seeking to force the state to fulfill its constitutional…

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