Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office. In 2015, they secured $4.3

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2019, vLex acquired Justis Publishing Ltd. , Originally a legal research company, Fastcase has diversified in recent years, launching its Full Court Press publishing arm and acquiring Docket Alarm and Law Street Media in 2018, NextChapter in 2019, and the technology and team of Judicata in 2020.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 25, 2024

If the case stands on appeal, Twitter will write a check to CCDH to compensate it for the litigation harms Twitter has imposed on it. Anti-SLAPP laws are a crucial bulwark against such abuses, especially by billionaires who embrace Pyrrhic litigation with the goal of draining their opponents’ bank accounts. We need more of that.

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Above the Law - Technology

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In his keynote address there, cofounder and CEO AJ Shankar announced the general availability, after a year of beta testing, of a suite of generative AI features for reviewing, coding and analyzing documents in discovery and litigation prep.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Litigation management platform Allegory Law in August 2020. Deal-management platform Doxly in August 2019. company Workshare in July 2019. Firm intelligence company Foundation Software in January 2021. AI contract drafting platform Bestpractix in June 2020. Table-of-authorities generator Best Authority in March 2020.

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LawSites

JULY 1, 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.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 29, 2019

‘Pre’ Legalweek New York began Monday with various premium boot camp-style intensives, but for us, Tuesday’s ‘State of the Industry’ general session at 8:30AM (Grand Ballroom East) marked the official kick-off for Legalweek 2019. Is this a focus in 2019? What are you seeing in 2019? Litigation Finance. Enjoy the Q&A.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Their patent agent even emailed them a reminder about the required payment, but the maintenance fee reminders from their patent agent landed in Taillefers junk email folder? When Taillefer failed to pay the maintenance fees, the patent expired.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

” That prompted this litigation. 1:18-CV-850-RP, 2019 WL 5258056, at *2 (W.D. June 26, 2019), report and recommendation adopted, No. 1:18-CV-850-RP, 2019 WL 5243187 (W.D. July 12, 2019). Normally, in a situation like this, I ask the question: “Who owns the right to the name ‘Texas Tamale’?”

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Courts are themselves a key part of the access to justice problem: opaque, duplicative and confusing court forms and burdensome filing processes make accessing the civil justice system deeply inefficient for the sophisticated, and an impenetrable maze for the 70+% of civil litigants who don’t have a lawyer.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. You’d think that if that claim is your strongest/only claim, you’d go ahead and give up, but I’m not a litigator so what do I know? and this lawsuit was filed in 2019, so the provisions couldn’t have been breached at the time of filing.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

Bill Henderson’s 2019 post reviewing Randall Kiser ’s book. Yet few litigators do formal risk analysis. In contrast, risk analysis and decision trees are mainly for litigators and not warranted in all litigation. Those who assume gut decisions suffice should read Prof. Narrow versus Broad Problems.

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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A unique case emerged in 2019 when NASA Astronaut Anne McClain was accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station. The claims eventually turned out to be false, but the situation brought up variety of legal issues and questions about how to litigate a crime committed in space.

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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. We wanted to learn more. how did this come about? how will the judging work?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 8, 2021

litigation. Around 32% of all legal department spend is on litigation megamatters, according to the report. Citing information from the 2019 Altman Weil Chief Legal Officer Survey, the report says: Just 37.6% corporate and securities. megamatters overall. matters under $1 million spend. Just 29.2% use ALSPs for e-discovery.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 LMA Tech West Conference, held in Los Angeles this week, marked the return of this Legal Marketing Association event to an in-person format for the first time since 2019. Current bio, similar bios, industry, litigation matters, and more are just some of the info to kick off a GPT generated bio.

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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

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. see, e.g., its problems in the long-running Nicosia litigation). ” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration.

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FindLaw

MARCH 7, 2023

Many who create deepfakes just do it for fun, but manipulated videos and audio have made their way into litigation. Attorneys in a 2019 custody case in the U.K. If you haven't seen the eerie deepfake video that morphs Bill Hader's face as he imitates Tom Cruise and Seth Rogen, check it out.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 5/10/2019. Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. Founded: 11/1/2019. FIND THE BALLOT HERE. . Advocat AI. Headquarters: Seattle, Wash. Founded: 4/1/2021. Headquarters: Ona, W.V.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Prior to joining Litera, Altman was cofounder and CEO of Doxly, a transaction management platform that Litera acquired in 2019. They join Paladin’s existing board members Kristen Sonday , cofounder and CEO; Felicity Levey , cofounder and executive chairwoman; and Rostam Zafari, founder of the World Within venture fund.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Trellis was founded by Nicole Clark , a lawyer who initially began collecting data on judges for her own use while a litigation associate in Los Angeles. Every time someone would go before a new judge, an email would go around the firm asking for information on the judge,” Clark told me in a 2019 interview. .

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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hg first invested in Litera in 2019. 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. Hg, a global software and services investor, will remain the majority investor in Litera.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2023

March 13, 2019) Daniel v. April 30, 2019) Airbnb, Inc. May 3, 2019) Turo Inc. App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litigation , 2022 WL 4009918 (N.D. Google, Inc. , 335 F.Supp.3d 3d 1156 (N.D. 15, 2018) HomeAway.com, Inc. City of Santa Monica , 918 F.3d 3d 676 (9th Cir. Armslist, LLC , 386 Wis.2d 2d 449 (Wis.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. In 2019, KLDiscovery became a public company as the result of a merger. 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

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

Litigation management platform Allegory Law in August 2020. Deal-management platform Doxly in August 2019. company Workshare in July 2019. Firm intelligence company Foundation Software in January 2021. AI contract drafting platform Bestpractix in June 2020. Table-of-authorities generator Best Authority in March 2020.

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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. Score one for ‘David’ in this David vs. Goliath battle” — a reference to a guest post about the litigation published on this blog by Mark Stodder , president of Xcential.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2019, he had a simple website that included a “Where We Work” page. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine. By November 21, 2019, the image is no longer included in the Wayback archive of that page. It took 13 steps/documents to complete. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017. Here are some highlights.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

We conducted a month-long broad-scale pilot in the third quarter of 2019 during which 200 users conducted nearly 7000 Illuminate searches. Our design and deployment efforts began in late 2017 and continued through 2018 into the late summer of 2019 culminating in our broad scale pilot. The roll out was completed at the end of May.

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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. 7, 2019) , noted Cardinal and agreed that third-party subpoenas must not burden responding parties. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. ,

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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 Jeremy Richter practices civil defense litigation by day and writes suspense novels by night under his pen name, J.W.

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