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Optimizing Legal & Business Operations

Welcome to the Baer Reed LPO blog, your resource for practical insight on optimizing legal and business operations for highly regulated industries at scale. Content here covers areas such as eDiscovery and document review, privilege review, contract management, legal research, AI validation and human-in-the-loop oversight, and data privacy and breach response, along with regular coverage of mergers and acquisitions, real estate due diligence, and important industry news. Whether you’re evaluating a provider for the first time or refining how your team can work more efficiently, you’ll find helpful tools here built for professionals making real decisions.

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Best Practices in the Document Review Process - Part I
Document production plays a critical role in the litigation review process. Document production creates the main corpus of potential evidence used for claim amendments, depositions, settlement negotiations, summary judgment efforts, and from which admissible trial exhibits will be...
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Consumer Privacy Legislation Updates
The CCPA has ushered in a new era of data privacy protections in the U.S. Since the passage of the CCPA [What Is The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?], two other states – Virginia and Colorado – have...
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Understanding the Evolution of Data Privacy and Security Laws
In the United States, the first comprehensive consumer data privacy statute was the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) passed in September 2018. The CCPA was modeled, in part, on the massive European privacy regulations that went into effect...
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Expediting Contract Due Process Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Almost without exception, purchasers of commercial real estate insist upon and place into the purchase contract various contingencies that must be met before consummation of the transaction. Sellers may insist upon their own set of contingencies. Contract due...
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Document Review Special Considerations Confidentiality & Protective Orders
Protective orders are often used in litigation to protect confidential information such as trade secrets or proprietary information during document discovery.  The protective orders will contain confidentiality designations to be applied during the document review process that indicate...
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