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Founders Say Burnham's New Government Must Seize the Growth Opportunity | Founders Pulse

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:08:43 EDT

The new UK Government has put economic growth at the heart of its agenda. As Parliament returns from recess, Prime Minister Andy Burnham is promising a more devolved, investment-led approach: backing local industrial strategies, building a more pro-business and innovation-led economy, and creating the conditions for UK startups and scaleups to stay and grow here. - - That ambition aligns closely with what founders want — the opportunity now is to turn it into a growth plan businesses can un...

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Hearst Newspapers, San Francisco Chronicle & USLege Launch Capitol Confidential Pro With Searchable Government Video Transcripts & Sacramento Political Reporting & Analysis

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:27:38 EDT

Hearst Newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle and USLege announced the California launch of Capitol Confidential Pro, powered by USLege, a California-focused platform designed to help policy professionals capture the context surrounding active legislation, including sponsor activity, hearing statements, agency discussions and local government developments that extend beyond the bill record. - - The product builds on the San Francisco Chronicle 's April launch of the Capitol Confidentia...

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TrialBase Unifies Litigation Intelligence, Trial Preparation, and Deposition Services

Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:00:00 EDT

TrialBase Litigation Intelligence ( ai.trialbase.com ) now delivers trial plans, jury selection strategy, venue-specific voir dire guidance, opening statements, and witness testimony preparation within a single litigation platform. These features build upon TrialBase's existing support for case evaluation, discovery, deposition preparation, medical chronologies, demand letters, and litigation strategy. - - Unlike point solutions that focus on isolated tasks, TrialBase provides a unified p...

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Ocean Conservancy Celebrates Federal Court Upholding Oregon's Producer Responsibility for Plastics Law

Tue, 1 Sep 2026 13:00:03 EDT

A federal judge ruled that Oregon's Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act – an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law applied to packaging and plastics – is constitutional. EPR laws are designed to reduce plastic pollution and improve recycling by holding plastic producers accountable for the waste they create, incentivizing them to design products to be more recyclable and to use less plastic. In response to this decision, Dr. Anja Brandon, an Oregon resident and Ocean C...

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Greenberg Traurig Deploys the Next Generation of CoCounsel Legal

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:20:24 EDT

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters' agentic artificial intelligence (AI) for legal professionals. The rollout gives lawyers across the firm's global offices access to AI that can plan, research, and draft across a matter. - - The deployment builds on four years of collaboration in which Greenberg Traurig attorneys received early access to CoCounsel Legal, participated in beta testing, and helped shape product develop...

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Our Agreement With Bipartisan Attorneys General: Calling on TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting Teens

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:45:14 EDT

Takeaways - - - • We are announcing an agreement reached with a bipartisan group of attorneys general, building on our longstanding efforts to empower parents and support teens. - - • Our agreement includes strict daily time limits teens can't turn off, default blocks from our apps at night, muted notifications during school hours, and new controls for parents. - - • We want to ensure teens benefit from this new industry standard, but we cannot do it alone. These protections will only b...

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The Legal AI Journey: From Task-Specific Tools to Integrated Intelligence

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:53:52 EDT

Legal professionals have more powerful technology available to them than ever before. They also have more complexity to manage. A lawyer working on a matter needs legal research, client documents, prior work product, institutional knowledge, business information, client-specific news, and current external context, often spread across several systems. AI has added another layer of complexity: model choice, agents, skills, and new ways to connect them. - - The AI journey in legal started with...

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Lexis+ with Prot�g� Accelerates Frictionless Agentic Productivity from First Idea to Review-Ready Legal Work Product

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:33:28 EDT

LexisNexis ® Legal & Professional today unveiled new agentic capabilities in Lexis+® with Prot�g�™, enabling legal professionals to move from first idea to review-ready work product in one intuitive AI experience. - - Legal professionals simply describe what they want to accomplish, and Lexis+ with Prot�g� applies the right AI models – including LexisNexis models that build on years of model optimization expertise – along with appropriate agents, skills, and selected sources behind th...

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Applications are Now Open for the 2026-2027 Cohort of the NUL Congressional Advocacy Program!

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:13:05 EDT

The National Urban League Washington Bureau is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2026-2027 Cohort of the NUL Congressional Advocacy Program ! - - The Congressional Advocacy Program is a competitive program that gives movement leaders the opportunity to expand their knowledge of congressional and grassroots engagement and network with policymakers, thought leaders, and political influencers, while developing core leadership competencies to become effective catalysts...

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Thomson Reuters Launches Next Generation of CoCounsel Legal, the AI Ecosystem Built for Legal Professionals

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:37:26 EDT

Thomson Reuters (Nasdaq/TSX: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced the general availability of the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, a fully agentic AI experience designed to help legal professionals move from research and issue analysis to trusted work product within a single workflow. - - Purpose-built for legal work and grounded in the trusted authority of Westlaw and Practical Law, CoCounsel Legal is engineered to reason, plan, and execute at the level of a se...

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Almost one in four people in England and Wales live in a legal aid desert

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:29:28 EDT

- - • Analysis of local authority data finds that 14.49 million people in England and Wales, or 23.4% of the population, live in an area classed as a legal aid desert - • Pattern of geographic inequality that mirrors wider regional disparities, with smaller, rural and coastal communities suffering the worst gaps. - - - LexisNexis ® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, has published new research revealing that access t...

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LexisNexis Acquires Globe Law and Business, Expanding Its Specialist Legal Content

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:38:49 EDT

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a global leader in information, analytics and AI-powered legal workflow solutions, announced it has acquired Globe Law and Business, a small, well-regarded UK-based publisher of specialist legal information. The acquisition adds specialist, practitioner-authored titles to the LexisNexis authoritative legal content library, which powers LexisNexis legal AI solutions, including Lexis+® with Prot�g�™. - - Founded in 2005 and based in London, Globe Law and...

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UN tax talks: Global South push for fairer rules as rich nations drag their feet on properly taxing wealthiest polluters

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:07:09 EDT

As the fifth round of negotiations concludes at the United Nations in New York, an ambitious Global Tax Treaty – also known as the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation – remains within reach. Major improvements to the zero draft text are still needed, however, to deliver global tax rules that will help solve the connected climate, nature, and inequality crises, rather than letting corporate polluters and the super-rich off the hook. - - Nina Stros, Global Senior Policy...

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