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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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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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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. I need a secretary to help me turn on the computer.

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Exclusive Analysis: The True Story of Legal Tech Funding, 1984-2020

LawSites

E-discovery, $1.4 E-sign, $1.2 Some other observations from Blijd: The first investment in what might be considered exclusively a legal tech product was in e-discovery in 1995, involving an undisclosed round by Open Text. The data reveals that, from 1984 to 2020, legal tech funding totaled $12.3

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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. legal tech companies go public: alternative legal services provider LegalZoom (Nasdaq:LZ), legal technology company Intapp (Nasdaq:INTA), and e-discovery company DISCO (NYSE:LAW). Given this paucity of U.S.

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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. I have not found presence in the cybernetic revolution.

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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. legal tech companies go public: alternative legal services provider LegalZoom (Nasdaq:LZ), legal technology company Intapp (Nasdaq:INTA), and e-discovery company DISCO (NYSE:LAW). Given this paucity of U.S.