Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York dismissed plaintiffs’ suit in its entirety, holding that plaintiffs had no cognizable claim for damages or injunctive relief because they failed at this stage of litigation to demonstrate that they had been harmed in any way by OpenAI’s actions. 21, 2015), aff’d , 700 F.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Himonas has been a judge since 2004, serving until 2015 on Utah’s Third Judicial District Court and then named to the Supreme Court in 2015. Prior to becoming a judge, he was in private practice, focused on complex civil litigation.

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Technically Legal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Angela Floessel, Global Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Morrison Foerster, discusses the litigation finance program she helped set up permitting MoFo to take good cases it might not otherwise take, secure good results for clients it might not otherwise help and help grow the firm’s bottom line while doing it.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). In Latest Litigation Gambit, ROSS Files Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters, Alleging Research Monopoly (Jan.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 7, 2016

The City was found to be grossly negligent in issuing and executing its litigation hold for the preservation of email and text messages. The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. The Court found that the City’s litigation hold was both late and ineffective. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S.

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Technically Legal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In Episode 24 we talk litigation finance with Justin Barker, an investment manager and the head of the Chicago office for litigation funding firm Validity Finance , and Bartlit Beck litigator Steven Nachtwey. The guys also dispel some myths about litigation finance (such as that it encourages litigation of bad claims).

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Clio

JANUARY 20, 2025

The discovery process is a critical element of litigation, and objections to discovery requests are every bit as essential. Any legal professional working in litigation needs to know how to make these objections, and how to respond when the opposing side makes them. This is why a cheat sheet for discovery objections can be valuable.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2024

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 20, 2023

“The mere fact that Facebook had the ability, in 2015, to provide additional information about other users’ content is not sufficient to show that Facebook did so here.” Either way, looping Facebo0k into this litigation was a terrible decision. ” The court is confused. LifelongLearning.

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Percipient

APRIL 22, 2023

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. 23, 2015) the court observed that responding parties presumptively bear the expense of complying with discovery requests unless the expense is “significant.”

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Joshua Gilliland

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Determining when a party “knew or should have known that litigation was imminent” is often a free fall into analyzing the facts of when a party had notice of a lawsuit. 23, 2015, No. CIV-14-899-D) 2015 U.S. The duty to preserve is a tricky beast. This is one of those times. Wethington v. Swainson (W.D.Okla. LEXIS 171126, at *2.

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Technically Legal

JANUARY 5, 2023

After Betterfly, he launched a litigation finance company and worked on it for a few years, until 2015 when he launched Mighty. At first, Mighty also had a litigation funding component and tried to pair plaintiffs with funders by having them compete for cases.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Breach Litig. , 14-2522, 2015 WL 6777384 (D. 23, 2015), where the court held an investigative report privileged in part because Target conducted such a two-track investigation. In rejecting that argument, the court distinguished In re Target Corp. Customer Data Sec.

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Joshua Gilliland

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The new Rules are designed to bring balance to litigation, not leave it in tatters. 9, 2015, No. 2:14-cv-1131) 2015 U.S. Bow Tie Thoughts eDiscovery might not be as popcorn worthy as Star Wars , but this is an excellent case applying the 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Goodman Mfg. S.D.Ohio Dec.

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TechLaw Crossroads

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

So we don’t demand competency in ourselves or our litigation associates. California Formal Opinion 2015-193 talks about three noteworthy and ethical points: 1. So let’s do the same with ESI. It’s not something I, as an important big shot lawyer, need to lower myself to deal with. That required some knowledge of e-discovery.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 141 talented and influential women leaders. The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Himonas has been a judge since 2004, serving until 2015 on Utah’s Third Judicial District Court and then named to the Supreme Court in 2015. Prior to becoming a judge, he was in private practice, focused on complex civil litigation.

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LawSites

APRIL 7, 2022

Legalfit was founded in 2015 by Robert Zhou , an entrepreneur who previously developed end-to-end software solutions for self-storage facilities. More than 1,500 law firms use Legalfit, its website says.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2023

3, 2015) Doe v. App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litigation , 2022 WL 4009918 (N.D. March 14, 2013) Jones v. Dirty World Entertainment Recordings, LLC, 965 F.Supp.2d 2d 818 (E.D. 12, 2013) J.S. Village Voice Media Holdings, L.L.C. , 2d 95 (Wash. Internet Brands, Inc. , 3d 846 (9th Cir. May 31, 2016) Fields v. Twitter, Inc. ,

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 141 talented and influential women leaders. I think legal tech, much like litigation where I began my career, is primarily about people.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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. billion, getting iManage in the deal.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

Since founding it in 2015, Forbes has self-funded the company. Its primary customers are mid-sized law firms practicing in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, family law, and criminal law, but the firms also span such practice areas as business, employment, immigration, intellectual property, real estate, and others.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 13, 2024

billion purchase price and years of litigation that continues even now. With iManage, through no fault of its own, caught up in this M&A morass, its original founding management team, led by Neil Araujo and Rafiq Mohammadi , swooped in and bought back the company in 2015 and immediately went to work to put it back on course.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Browder achieved international recognition when, at just 17 years old in 2015, he founded DoNotPay, touted as the world’s first robot lawyer, to help people appeal parking tickets. On this episode of LawNext: Joshua Browder , founder of DoNotPay. The company claims the app has saved motorists in the U.S. and UK many millions of dollars.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 12, 2016

23, 2015, No. C14-1443RAJ) 2015 U.S. Effectively summarizing the work product doctrine, for a document to be protected, it must: “1) be ‘prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial’ and (2) be prepared “by or for another party or by or for that other party’s representative.” LEXIS 171576, at *2-3.

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A 1989 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he began his legal career as a litigator with the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, where he focused on complex civil litigation. Gary Herbert. Prior to his appointment, he served as a trial court judge for over 10 years.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 15, 2023

A litigator before founding Clearbrief, Schafer said that assembling a timeline is one of the first things a lawyer has to do when starting a new case. In one example that Schafer showed me, the timeline included the entry, “December 2015: First controlled buy at Yakima stash house,” with a link to the record.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 15, 2023

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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LawNext podcast

AUGUST 23, 2018

Most recently, Pfeifer led the roll-out of Lexis Analytics, a suite of tools that organizes all of LexisNexis’s major analytics acquisitions and products (as well as a couple new products) into three categories of analytics – litigation, regulatory and transactional. Pfeifer is a 29-year veteran of LexisNexis.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). In Latest Litigation Gambit, ROSS Files Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters, Alleging Research Monopoly (Jan.

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LawNext podcast

APRIL 16, 2019

On this episode of LawNext, Conrad joins host Bob Ambrogi for an in-depth discussion of the company she and cofounder Kristen Sonday launched in 2015. Before founding Paladin, Conrad was a litigator in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sinclair has served on the Commission since 2015 and was appointed Chair in 2019. where she concentrates her practice in the fields of appellate law, professional liability, commercial litigation, and ethics. Johnson as Vice-Chair of the Commission on Professionalism. Kim assumes the role of Chair from Martin V. Sinclair, Jr.,

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LawNext podcast

JULY 29, 2019

In 2003, she joined Northrop Grumman Corporation as assistant general counsel-litigation, eventually rising to become vice president and chief compliance officer before leaving in 2015 to spend a year at the Advanced Leadership Institute at Harvard University. NEW: We are now on Patreon!

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The Barrister

APRIL 24, 2024

837 (1984), created a two-part framework for litigation involving congressional statutory law and regulatory agencies that enforce that law. F86 2015 (Study Aids). The regulatory text was amended during this litigation, effective January 9, 2023. Federal administrative law impacts nearly every element of our lives. 9, 2022). [2]

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

Previous year-in-review lists from 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , and 2006. Forum 183 (2023) Zauderer and Compelled Editorial Transparency , 108 Iowa L.

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