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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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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In 2015, AppFolio, which then owned practice management platform MyCase, went through an IPO , but its primary products were not in legal, but in property management. Given this paucity of U.S. In Gloucester, Mass.,

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No, You Don’t Have to Read Everything

Joshua Gilliland

I have met lawyers who have a crazy idea: They HAVE to read EVERY email, document, Excel file, video, and every other bit of ESI produced in discovery. Lawyers have a duty of competency to their client, and candor to the court, to look at what is relevant to their case and responsive to discovery requests. Pomrenke, 2015 U.S.

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Don’t Be Late and Ineffective with Litigation Holds

Joshua Gilliland

The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. The City further argued that since the Plaintiff’s had overly broad discovery requests, they should not be sanctioned for failing to preserve relevant ESI. City of New York (S.D.N.Y. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S. LEXIS 868, at *1. 153, 164-66 (S.D.N.Y.

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Proportionality and Labeling ESI Productions

Joshua Gilliland

The Court noted that many of the Defendants’ discovery requests were improper omnibus requests where no effort was made to tailor the discovery request to the issues in the case. Judge Wang took a deep dive into the issue of whether Rule 34(b)(2)(E)(i) and (ii) both apply to electronically stored information.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In 2015, AppFolio, which then owned practice management platform MyCase, went through an IPO , but its primary products were not in legal, but in property management. Given this paucity of U.S. In Gloucester, Mass.,

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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Traction: We have done a lot of work on customer discovery and gathered a great deal of positive feedback. Launching January 2022, our AI-driven engine will automate litigation processes like lawsuit and motion drafting, discovery preparation, procedural calendaring and much more by turning days of work into 2-3 minute-long activities.