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Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms

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In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice. Justice Timmer was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2012.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas

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District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her. “We expect that the New York and Texas courts will rule in favor of our clients,” attorney Shah said in her email.

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Section 230 Applies to Publication of Court Documents–Medina v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. He didn’t win.

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Update: Supreme Court Set to Rule on Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claim

Trellis.Law Blog

Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments and decide former President Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

In 2020, Bluford published a book in which he claimed to have become an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of Sacramento, Calif., In December 2020, it announced that it was shutting down. After I wrote about that company, it too shut down.

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Reynen Court Names Two to Executive Roles, Including Christian Lang As President

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Reynen Court , the so-called app store for legal technology, has promoted two of its key executives to new roles. The news comes a week after Reynen Court launched a general solicitation stock offering in order to bring on individual lawyers and “legal technology enthusiasts” as investors in the company. .

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