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2018 - Something Old, Something New

Trial Technology

Y2K with Brobeck (scary times) Beginning with my time in-house at Brobeck (1998-2002), I have enjoyed writing about Legal Technology for many publications. Many reprints were available on earlier versions of the Litigation-Tech website.

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Legal Tech Burn Rate Dips For 1st Time Since 2018

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New data from Legal Complex has shown that the burn rate for legal tech companies dropped in 2024, the first time it has done so since 2018. It also follows the previous year’s record level f

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ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on 30-Year-Old Technology whose Use Is Waning. My Question: Why Now?

Above the Law - Technology

When the American Bar Association’s ethics panel finally got around to issuing an opinion on lawyer blogging in 2018 — a full two decades after lawyers had started blogging — it conjured for me the image of Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep in 1769 and awoke 20 years later, having slept through the Revolution. […]

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ABA Says Its Network Hacked; User Names and Hashed Passwords Possibly Accessed

Above the Law - Technology

The investigation determined that an unauthorized third party gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords to access accounts on a prior version of the ABA website, which was replaced by a new platform in 2018. The passwords were not exposed in plain text.

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On LawNext Podcast: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’

Above the Law - Technology

In 2018, two years after D. Gordon Smith became dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, he told an audience of law school advisors , “I want BYU to be known as, if not the most innovative law school in the country, then one of the most innovative law schools in the country.”

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DSIT publishes draft amendments to the UK GDPR and DPA 2018

Technology Law Dispatch

On 11 September 2023, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), published the draft Data Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (DP Regulations), which seek to amend the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

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Following Departure of its Founder, E-Discovery Company DISCO Names New CEO

Above the Law - Technology

From 2008 to 2018, he held a series of executive and leadership roles at SAP and SAP Concur. Previously, he was global head, commercial, SMB and growth markets, at Marketo Inc., a provider of marketing automation technology and a subsidiary of Adobe Inc. Read more about DISCO in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.