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E-discovery, the Cloud and Blockchain – How New Practices May Require a ‘Back to School’ Approach

Discovery Advocate

The practice of e-discovery has always incorporated considerations of new and emerging technologies as well as related attorney competence. This focus on the cloud came to a head in the 2014 Brown v.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

LawSites

My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v. National Financial , in which a lawyer facing sanctions for e-discovery misconduct offered these words in this defense: “I have to confess to this court, I am not computer literate. This was out of my bailiwick.”

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. Do courts fully reopen or not? Also last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved a pilot project to permit “legal paraprofessionals” to provide legal services in certain matters.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

Legal Tech Monitor

My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v. National Financial , in which a lawyer facing sanctions for e-discovery misconduct offered these words in this defense: “I have to confess to this court, I am not computer literate. Did that excuse garner sympathy from the court?

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. Do courts fully reopen or not? Also last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved a pilot project to permit “legal paraprofessionals” to provide legal services in certain matters.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.”

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. For nearly 30 years, the framework for judging fair use cases has been remarkably stable, based on Justice Souter’s masterful opinion for a unanimous Court in Campbell v. [Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof. 569 (1994).

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