Above the Law - Technology

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. Typically, that involves a tedious and time-consuming process of sifting through documents and emails and looking for pertinent dates. The first controlled buy took place at that stash house.”

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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. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S. The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. City of New York (S.D.N.Y. LEXIS 868, at *1. ” Stinson, at *8.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. see, e.g., its problems in the long-running Nicosia litigation).

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2020, it acquired One Legal , a California provider of online litigation support services such as court filing, service of process, and document retrieval. in 2016, where it offers a variety of search services for searching title and property information, state company filings, UCC reports, and court dockets.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2023

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Trial Technology

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The Vanishing Civil Jury Trial - In case you’re the only one who hasn’t noticed, there seems to be a trend toward keeping litigation matters away from the eyes of a jury. If it were, there would be no need to litigate. This means fewer trials in the courts, followed by fewer attorneys with trial experience. In the ongoing Oracle v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 23, 2023

Steno , a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay , enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million, bringing its total raise to $38.5 This latest round was led by Left Lane Capital.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2023

. “We were forcing our customers to choose between the experience of Zoom and the functionality of Steno Connect,” said Dylan Ruga , Steno’s president and cofounder and a Los Angeles-based litigator. Related: With $3.5M Raise, Steno Aims To Disrupt Depositions.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 16, 2023

The first is the 2016 Second Circuit FTC v. ” This is the kind of argument only a pro se litigant would make in 2023. ” 22 years later, I guess we’re still litigating that conclusion. .” [Jargon note: I have no idea what a “website exchange system” is. Third-Party Content.

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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. 8, 2016) , the court followed the three-part test used in DeGeer when Volvo sought to have a subpoenaing party pay for requested records. In Jeune v.

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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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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs. In 2016, Casetext launched CARA , another first-of-its-kind product that uses artificial intelligence to analyze briefs and suggest relevant cases they fail to include.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That began to change in 2016 with the enactment of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, which gave rise to a new area of litigation and an evolving body of common law pertaining to protection of trade secrets, Londergan said. This involves identifying a company’s trade secret assets. Who has access to the trade secret?

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secret Act (DTSA). The parties are already in litigation. The generic manufacturer is already under a litigation hold. Violating that hold will lead to adverse consequences in the litigation as well as possible criminal punishment.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In Larry Philpot is a repeat copyright plaintiff. Case citation : Philpot v.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 18, 2024

says the company is on a mission to innovate and even revolutionize litigation services and the litigation workflow. and then in 2016 to the U.S. Our guest today, Ed Watts , CEO of InfoTrack in the U.S., InfoTrack expanded first to the U.K.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2024

Proof provides a litigation services marketplace where law firms and government agencies can access a nationwide network of process servers, electronic court filing services, and remote notarization. He founded the company in 2016, and when we spoke in 2022, he had just raised a $7 million Series A round. CEO Chris Ford.

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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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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2023

After two trips to the 9th Circuit, a remand from the Supreme Court, and nearly six years of motions and posturing, the outcome of the litigation was a permanent injunction against hiQ, a win for LinkedIn, and insolvency for scraper hiQ Labs. That said, few scraping-related cases pursue these issues past the first few stages of litigation.

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LawSites

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last year, Litera acquired litigation management platform Allegory Law , AI contract drafting platform Bestpractix , and table-of-authorities generator Best Authority , and in 2019, it acquired U.K. company Workshare and deal-management platform Doxly. “We

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LawSites

AUGUST 10, 2021

Last year, Litera acquired litigation management platform Allegory Law , AI contract drafting platform Bestpractix , and table-of-authorities generator Best Authority , and in 2019, it acquired U.K. company Workshare and deal-management platform Doxly. “We

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” Based on the fundamental illogic of its litigation position, I see no way for Enigma to win here.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” The plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game. She sued pro se for a variety of claims.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 2, 2024

Ryanair recently “prevailed” in its CFAA claim in its litigation against Booking.com. Not only that, but this case makes it more likely that other plaintiffs and defendants will suffer lengthy, protracted litigation to reach similarly absurd conclusions. As in, if the jury concluded Ryanair had suffered $4,999.99 Booking Holdings Inc.

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Colin S. Levy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This situation often resulted in threatened or actual litigation and always meant a war of words in the form of contract letters numbering in the hundreds from both sides. And then any actual litigation would drag on for years after the project ended. Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K. Martinez, Stephanie E.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 7, 2022

the owners of Snapchat and Bitmoji, are also a the self-styled “camera” company, and have been selling augmented reality (AR) glasses under the name “Spectacles” since 2016. Tags: Appeal , Litigation , Trademarks , TTAB , USPTO Related posts What is a Patent? (0) Brett Trout Snap, Inc.,

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LawSites

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In this episode, Marwaha discusses how, since 2016, Litera has embarked on a “buy, build, innovate” acquisition strategy, which has resulted in the company growing beyond its document drafting focus to become a significant player in transaction and litigation technology. Adriana Linares , founder of Law Tech Partners.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 4, 2024

Alexander discussed how mental health and wellbeing have been stigmatized in the legal profession and the shocking new research regarding lawyers’ health on ABA’s Section of Litigation’s podcast Litigation Radio. “I Nava spent many years working as an attorney in California and retired from the law in July 2016.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2024

Proof provides a litigation services marketplace where law firms and government agencies can access a nationwide network of process servers, electronic court filing services, and remote notarization. He founded the company in 2016, and when we spoke in 2022, he had just raised a $7 million Series A round. CEO Chris Ford.

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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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Technically Legal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Prior to becoming Turnsignl CEO, Jazz was a public defender and ended up doing commercial litigation at a top Minneapolis law firm. While Jazz was still in private practice, Philando Castile, with whom two of three Turnsignl co-founders grew up, was killed by police during a traffic stop near Minneapolis in 2016.

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LawSites

APRIL 11, 2023

Unfortunately, for HP, the Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8 In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 billion, getting iManage in the deal.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 7, 2023

In 2016, IAALS launched the Court Compass project to explore user-friendly, streamlined, and accessible solutions that help people through the divorce and separation process—even when they cannot afford to or choose not to hire an attorney.

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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. The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8 billion, getting iManage in the deal.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Hourly rates for lawyers have increased 28% since 2016 (from $256 to $327), according to the Legal Trends Report. Additionally, legal professionals on average are working over 25% more cases, recording 35% more billable hours, and billing and collecting over two and a half times more than they did in 2016. The reason?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 26, 2023

The acquisition of Casetext is another step in our ‘build, partner and buy’ strategy to bring generative AI solutions to our customers,” said Steve Hasker, president and CEO of Thomson Reuters.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2020, it acquired One Legal , a California provider of online litigation support services such as court filing, service of process, and document retrieval. in 2016, where it offers a variety of search services for searching title and property information, state company filings, UCC reports, and court dockets.

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