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The 2023 Fastcase 50 Announced, Honoring Legal’s Innovators, Visionaries and Leaders

Above the Law - Technology

Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” I was honored to be in the inaugural Fastcase 50 class in 2011. This year’s list of honorees reflects a year of transformation for legal services.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

In 2011, LexisNexis leapt onto this bandwagon with its release of Firm Manager , a web-based practice management platform designed for smaller law firms. The year 2008 saw the launches of the first two cloud-based law practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, followed in 2009 by the launch of MyCase.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Eric Goldman

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM.

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Federal court holds that 15-month delay in reviewing electronic evidence was an unlawful seizure

Cyber Crime Review

In what I would call a very significant case, a New York federal court has held that failure to examine a defendant’s imaged hard drive within 15-months after it was obtained was an unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Metter , 2011 U.S. In United States v. LEXIS 155130 (E.D.N.Y.

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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See

LawSites

To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases. The data the Journal used was compiled by the Free Law Project , a non-profit that works to provide free and open public access to court data, opinions, filings and other information.

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2019 NALA Conference & Expo

Legal Talk Network

O’Neil who, since 2011, has been the presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court. As for the CIA’s part, they were actively recruiting paralegals from the conference to be in the Office of General Counsel which is responsible for advising the director of the CIA.

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Jones II: This time, the government seeks to use cell site location information

Cyber Crime Review

Jones , the ground-breaking decision from the Supreme Court in January? However, only the GPS data was used at trial so the appellate courts were never able to directly address the CSLI. ” Courts began to deal with CSLI about five years ago, and as they were with GPS data, the courts are fractured.