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Billing and fixed fees, client files and cloud storage, e-signatures, outside counsel guidelines and how law firms and chambers in India and the United States run themselves.

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Bar Council clears e-signatures and cloud storage for vakalatnamas and client files, with conditions

Advocates may sign and store digitally, provided the records sit on servers in India and clients are told where their files are kept.

By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent

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Law firm billing in the age of AI: fixed fees rise, the billable hour survives, and clients want the prompt logs

General counsel are writing AI-use clauses into outside counsel guidelines, and some now ask to see what the tools were asked and what they returned.

By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent

8 min read

Practice management

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Bar Council clears e-signatures and cloud storage for vakalatnamas and client files, with conditions

Law firm billing in the age of AI: fixed fees rise, the billable hour survives, and clients want the prompt logs

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