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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. LexisNexis Firm Manager.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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How to Increase Law Firm Profitability

Centerbase

Profits per equity partner are down for the first time since 2009. (Data are based on reported results from 170 US-based law firms, including 46 AmLaw 100 firms, 47 AmLaw 200 firms, and 77 midsize law firms.) Client payments and realization rates are down too.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.). In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

2009) (holding that a contract was not preempted by copyright). The Internet is awash in lawsuits related to this collection of data. Health Grades, Inc. Robert Wood Johnson University Hosp., 634 F.Supp.2d 2d 1226, 1246 (D. See also Big Squid, Inc. 2019 WL 3555509 (D. Same.) — The Ninth Circuit is a bit trickier to pin down.

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Fintales Issue 25: January 2023

Ikigai Law

A 2009 study found that excessive road safety signs are counter-productive as they distract and desensitize drivers. AI art tools, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, face copyright lawsuit [ The Verge ] Venture capital’s $300bn question – Why is the industry sitting on the cash? [ A laundry list of do this, don’t do that.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.). In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1