LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2021

Launched in 2019, Quick Check was Westlaw’s answer to other brief-checking products on the market, all of which followed the 2016 introduction by Casetext of the original case-checking tool, CARA. The new feature flags cases that may run counter to an opponent’s arguments.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

The balding, stern-faced judge stares down at me from his bench, framed by flags to either side of him, a judicial seal on the wall behind him. It is just the judge, the jury and me. The judge nods, but it looks like a nod of impatience, not of listening. Click another button, and I see myself from the perspective of the judge.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.”

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term because I aspired to be a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. I was told I would develop a lifelong mentor/mentee relationship with the judge for whom I clerked, and that the position would confer only professional benefits.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

In Survey, Judges Say Lawyers’ Incomplete Research Impacts Case Outcomes. 2019 Casetext’s New ‘SmartCite’ Citator Is Its Clever Answer to Shepard’s and KeyCite. Casetext Now Automatically ‘Pushes’ Legal Research to Attorneys. 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. Robot Fight: Casetext’s CARA vs. ROSS’s EVA.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This case got assigned to Judge Alsup’s courtroom. I previously summarized Judge Alsup’s modus operandi about motions to dismiss: Judge Alsup gives the benefit of the doubt to plaintiffs on motions to dismiss, only to hammer them on summary judgment if their evidence doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2023

” If it matters, the concurring judge is a DeSantis appointee. 2019 WL 5595037 (S.D.N.Y. But the commerce clause was not intended to nationalize the whole of America law.” I’ve stopped tracking all of the times Section 230 has immunized search results. Here’s an incomplete list: Maughan v. 2016); Despot v.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It offers two products: Smart Search, through which users are able to find court dockets, rulings and filed documents, and Judge Analytics, where users can find information about judges’ caseloads and ruling tendencies, including grant rates for specific types of motions and anticipated timing to reach certain milestones.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 17, 2024

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. Bright Data , Judge William Alsup finally asked the right question, focusing on the conflict between copyright policy and X’s ToS.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. Amazon updated the TOS in 2019 to make explicit that arbitrability would be decided by an arbitrator, and it emailed the drivers the new TOS. ” Judge Graber dissents in part. Make it easy for judges. ” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 23, 2019

The 2019 Legaltech Product Innovation Competition is underway with 7 finalists having been named in early January. Erin Hichman , Senior Analyst with ALM Intelligence, is charged with organizing the 2019 innovation competition. how will the judging work? IL: Please walk us through the judging and evaluation process?

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

To the contrary, the company asserted that Agnello stole its idea after it gave him a demonstration of the software in 2019. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. In November, Xcential, a 25-person legal technology company in California, fought back, filing an answer and counterclaim denying that its software was based on Agnello’s idea.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2021

From all applications received, a panel of five judges will select 25 finalists. This year’s judges are: Ivan Hemmans, TECHSHOW 2022 co-chair. You were not one of the prior years’ winners selected to present at TECHSHOW in the 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020 Startup Alley. Brooke Moore, TECHSHOW 2022 co-chair.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I’ve decided this one from 2 months ago is worth blogging, even at this date, given Judge Chhabria’s treatment of these claims. This ruling suggests that this judge views placing cookies like virtual dog-petting. 2019) Norton v. It feels like we are getting a pixel ruling every day. I’ve ignored most of them.

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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So much had changed since the last in-person conference in San Diego during 2019. Innovation in the Courts with Judge Schlegel. Judge Scott Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the United States for delivering justice online. .

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “So They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. What we offer are explanatory insights into judges’ rulings.”

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. So this case is now finally headed towards its always-inevitable date with the Ninth Circuit. * * * Last year, the judge gutted most of the case. and this lawsuit was filed in 2019, so the provisions couldn’t have been breached at the time of filing.

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FindLaw

MARCH 7, 2023

Attorneys in a 2019 custody case in the U.K. Related Resources Bumpy Road Ahead for All in Adoption of AI in Legal Industry (FindLaw's Practice of Law) The HAL 9000 Lawyer (FindLaw's Don't Judge Me Podcast) Who Owns DALL-E Images? These differences can even indicate what software was used.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2023

Judge Kozinski wrote the en banc majority opinion, and I’ve sensed judges have become less eager to cite Kozinski opinions given how his judicial career ended in a #MeToo canceling. Most judges have interpreted the Roommates.com exceptions narrowly. Many citations to Roommates.com result in defense wins.

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lennyesq

AUGUST 28, 2023

By JEFF COLTIN The New York City Council passed, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, a bill banning the sale and serving of foie gras in November 2019. 3 when an Albany County judge struck down the state’s order blocking the city ban as “arbitrary and capricious.” The debate pits upstate interests versus downstate ones.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Frederick quit Tesla back in 2019 to start her own firm but quickly realized that she could do more with her 25 years of commercial contract drafting experience than simply serve her clients. “[O]ne Judge (aka Jeremy Richter). O]ne day I just started posting my advice on contracts,” Frederick says in a LinkedIn post on her profile.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 25, 2024

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Whether it is by accident or because of who he is, Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California has a way of finding himself at the center of the most important cases in the world of web scraping. There were a few steps in Judge Chen’s reasoning. He presided over the famous hiQ Labs v.

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Clio

MAY 22, 2024

A judicial code of conduct is a set of ethical guidelines ensuring judges uphold integrity, impartiality, and professionalism. These bodies are often composed of judges and legal professionals who understand the nuances of judicial responsibilities and ethics. What is a judicial code of conduct?

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

At its core, knowledge management is about finding lawyers who or documents or matters that can answer another lawyer’s questions about law, transactions, regulatory matters, judges, investors, clients, or industries. We wanted to make it easier to navigate this sea of information. The roll out was completed at the end of May.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

On July 4, 2023, a federal judge declared FREEDOM from government censorship of Internet services. Shockingly, the judge ordered the executive branch to stop talking to Internet services about certain issues. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 TikTok bans.

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Legal Tech Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

million words spoken by lawyers, judges and litigants.” To partner with Slaughter and May, especially after taking part in their Collaborate Programme in 2019, is a real milestone for us.” That is where the idea of creating a tool trained with over 1.5 said Sophie Walker , founder and CEO of JUST: Access. “To

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed down the applications. Note: The ballot was supposed to list 25 companies, but because of a tie in the initial round of voting by judges, 26 companies are listed.). Founded: 5/10/2019. Founded: 11/1/2019. Founded: 11/11/2019. FIND THE BALLOT HERE. .

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LawSites

MAY 6, 2021

Judge , who co-leads the Emerging Companies Practice with Craig E. Categories covered in the knowledge bank span formation , financing , IP protection , tax , governance , exits , employment, compensation and more. It also includes a section targeting startups seeking to expand into the United States.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. Which is probably a big part of the reason that many judges have been eager to distance themselves from it. Zeidenberg , 86 F.3d 3d 1447, 1454-55 (7th Cir.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 6, 2023

Recommendations for maximizing those opportunities include training for judges and staff, increased use of technology to assist in civil case management and stronger enforcement of the rules. “While it has been over a decade since the rules were first implemented, there remains great opportunity for more consistent case management.”

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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It offers two products: Smart Search, through which users are able to find court dockets, rulings and filed documents, and Judge Analytics, where users can find information about judges’ caseloads and ruling tendencies, including grant rates for specific types of motions and anticipated timing to reach certain milestones.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

The market is potentially huge, given that, in 2019, automotive OEM manufacturers paid $49.4 The software uses clustering to group cases that have similar characteristics — including characteristics specific to the vehicle as well as extraneous characteristics, such as the judge or jurisdiction. billion in just the U.S.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 30, 2023

We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.” 2019 is a real case.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Court decisions are public information — they’re authored by judges and issued publicly to tell us what the law is, and why. It’s a great failure of our judges, courts and legislatures that they’ve allowed — and continue to allow to this day — commercial entities to mingle their owned commentary with our official law.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Recently a judge in my state shared that she presided over a video court appearance where an attorney had his image set to horizontal and apparently couldn’t figure out how to change it. But having reached Halloween 2021, lawyers need to know how to use the tools of their trade, including tools they had never heard of in 2019.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 18, 2024

This month serves as a reminder for lawyers, judges, other legal professionals, and parents alike to prioritize the well-being and emotional health of children during divorce proceedings. Various ADR resources are available to courts seeking to make divorce as uncontentious as possible.

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