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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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Fastcase Names Its 11th Annual Class of Fastcase 50 Innovation Honorees

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Each year since the inaugural awards in 2011, the Fastcase 50 award has spotlighted the often under-recognized efforts of pioneers and architects of the future of law and legal technology,” Fastcase said in announcing this latest round. Disclosure: I was listed in the inaugural group in 2011.). California Supreme Court.

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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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Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. Colibri

Eric Goldman

The court denies a preliminary injunction. Though the court says it’s a close question, the court says that the plaintiff does not have a likelihood of success on the merits. To analyze this, the court applies the standard likelihood of consumer confusion factors. ” Product line expansion. Not relevant.

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

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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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Two Common but Disingenuous Phrases About Section 230

Eric Goldman

I hope this post makes clear why I get so irritated whenever I see the phrases referenced in a court opinion or invoked by a grandstanding politician. 2011 WL 1675043 (N.C. 28, 2011) Hare v. Roommates.Com, LLC , 521 F.3d 3d 1157 (9th Cir. April 3, 2008) Milo v. Martin , 311 S.W.3d 3d 210 (Tex. April 29, 2010) Hill v.

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