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The language industry, at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Unbabel stuns with $60 million dollar cash infusion. Looks like neural machine translation (“human-in-the-loop”) works [Part 2 of our 3 reports, with video]

  Alexandra Dumont Head of Operations The Posse List   3 October 2019 (Paris, France) – SlatorCon events are our favorite events for covering the language industry. We attend both the U.S.

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The language industry, at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Transperfect’s success, collecting language data for AI, and the latest advances in neural machine translation [Part 1 of 3 reports, with video]

  Alexandra Dumont Head of Operations The Posse List   30 September 2019 (Paris, France) – SlatorCon events are our favorite events for covering the language industry. We attend both the

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Trump proposes to end U.S. student loan forgiveness program

12 March 2019 (Washington, DC) – As we wrote at the end of 2018, U.S student loan burden had swelled past $1.5tn despite actual lending volumes falling for more than half a decade, as struggling

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The U.S. Freedom of Information Act has morphed into a potent weapon for corporations

Alex Hania Manager The Posse List 6 November 2018 (Washington, DC) – When the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted in 1966, it was envisioned as a tool for journalists to facilitate

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Tales from the trenches: the explosion of e-discovery document review projects in D.C. and NYC

By: Alexis Chrystos Manager, The Posse List (a division of The Project Counsel Group)   We have received a fair amount of questions from staffing agencies, legal technology vendors, law firms,

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Talk about proportionality! :-) A new spin on “Jarndyce v Jarndyce”

“Ah, about those filet mignon expenses …” By: Catarina Conti   Jarndyce v Jarndyce is a fictional court case in “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English

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Solon Legal supports the “Going Global – The China Factor” event at George Washington Law School

“We have benefited so much over the years from the great work of our contract attorneys and translators that we really think it is important to give back. It is not always an easy haul being a contract

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Brown University is doing away with student loans

11 December 2017- Amid America’s colossal student debt problem, an Ivy League school is providing an example of how institutions can help. Beginning next school year, Brown University will eliminate

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TransPerfect’s fate decided

  The following summary is courtesy of:  https://slator.com   24 November 2017 – Phil Shawe won. After putting up the fight of his life the current co-CEO and soon-to-be sole CEO of

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Contract attorney work goes back to the farm: the fall-off in D.C. document review work

  By: Alexis Chrystos Manager, The Posse List (a division of The Project Counsel Group)         We have received a fair amount of questions on the fall off of D.C. based document review so

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