Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

I wrote an expert declaration about them in 2021). The court says that the merchant made a descriptive “fair use” of the “emoji” term, but the court didn’t actually say that “emoji” qualifies as a descriptive trademark, instead of an arbitrary mark, for stickers.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

district judge in Delaware but who last month became a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — sided with ROSS. However, the judge did not accept a second antitrust theory asserted by ROSS — that TR had engaged in anticompetitive conduct by pursuing sham litigation. Judge Leonard P.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Then, in 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges related to the fraud and forgeries I’d written about in 2016. When the litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down in 2022, it was a shock to almost everybody but the founder. Kevin Johnson, who was also a former star with the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. Gavelytics.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

When I first blogged this case in January 2021, I wrote: This lawsuit, like many others before it, claims that UGC services like YouTube commit illegal discrimination based on how they moderate content. The latest ruling addresses YouTube’s motion to dismiss the fourth amended complaint, which the court grants with prejudice.

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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

When most people think of a law degree, they envision a career in traditional fields such as litigation,corporate law, or criminal defense. 9 Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) : For those uninterested in litigation, ADR roles such as mediation and arbitration offer opportunities to resolve conflicts outside of court.

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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. million seed round.

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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. Littler, local everywhere.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

Thus, I always felt the litigation ploy acted as an adverse admission by the plaintiffs. But courts don’t always use facts like that for petard-hoisting, instead grounding their rulings in legal doctrines and admissible evidence. Yet, the court bails YouTube out. The court shreds this chart.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

After Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021 , vLex partnered with Fastcase for U.S. 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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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Compose launched with the ability to create core federal court procedural and discovery motions. Second Product Award.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2021, the court quickly shut down that misguided argument. The court says it was “frivolous from the outset… Mr. .” ” The court awards YouTube a fee-shift of $38,576. Ordinarily, hiring an attorney should improve the success rate; but not in this litigation genre.

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Martindale-Avvo

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2021, 83% of law school grads found employment where passing the bar was a requirement or advantage. You might also participate in due diligence for pending contracts and mergers, and work on discovery for litigation. A missed court deadline can impact the rights of the client and open the lawyer up to a malpractice claim.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 7/6/2021. From launch, we closed our first customer in December 2021. Founded: 4/1/2021. 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. Outside funding: $1M – $5M in outside funding.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 19, 2023

Illinois courts can receive grant funding for local access to justice initiatives through the Illinois Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission (ATJ Commission) and the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts Access to Justice Division’s (AOIC ATJ Division) ATJ Improvement Grant. on Monday, June 26.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

These include a draft adequacy decision for EU-UK data transfer, renewed focus from data protection authorities (“DPAs”) on cookies compliance, and guidance from the English courts on what constitutes unsolicited marketing. Spotlight on Schrems II litigation and enforcement risk. We cover those developments (and more) below.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

I’m pleased to share a draft of a new paper, “ A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” This paper explains the scheme, how it bypasses standard legal safeguards, how it’s affected hundreds of thousands of defendants, and how it may have cost the federal courts a quarter-billion dollars.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In Taamneh, the court held that Twitter could not be liable for aiding-and-abetting because, among other reasons, Twitter did not do anything that specifically facilitated the terrorist attack at issue. In light of that conclusion, the court declined to rule on the parallel Gonzalez v.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, cross-border litigation is now widespread as global commerce increases. The COVID-19 pandemic may have dampened global trade in 2020; however, the World Trade Organization forecast a strong growth recovery in 2021 continuing into 2022. This is where multilingual e-discovery comes in. What data is relevant to a case?

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

SEC Targets AI Washing in Private Capital Markets: Old School Fraud Using New School Buzzwords (June 14, 2024) On June 11, 2024, the SEC filed its first litigated AI washing matter involving a private capital markets transaction. This tracker is continuously updated with links to 8-K cybersecurity filings. Donnelley & Sons Co.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The court summarizes the plaintiff’s allegations: Plaintiff alleges that in October, 2020, he received a negative review on Nextdoor from a former customer. In the spring of 2021, he relocated to Montana and revamped his contracting business. ” The court cites Force v. A series of other negative reviews followed.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, Attorney at Work’s Top 20 Articles of 2021 captures the zeitgeist of what’s on the minds of small law firms. Yesterday at TechnoLawyer, we published our annual awards, aptly titled TechnoLawyer Top 10 Products of 2021. WebPreserver generates a certificate for authenticating this evidence in court.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). 19-cv-3195 (JEB), 2021 WL 106417 (D.D.C.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. The recent ruling in South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Court (Tuesday, Nov. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Judge Clemens Landau , presiding judge, Salt Lake City Justice Court. David Slayton , vice president of court consulting services, National Center for State Courts.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

Consistent with the CCB’s small claims court ethos, the case involved both a pro se claimant and respondent. In fact, the factual data was scraped by both of us over a period of time in 2021 and 2022 and put into a database. The CCB filing cost is about $300 less than federal court. b) Alternative Dispute Resolution Process.-A

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court announced today that it has appointed Lea S. As Administrator of the ARDC, Gutierrez will serve as an ex-officio member of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, replacing Larkin. Gutierrez’s appointment is effective October 23, 2023.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 29, 2023

Paul Davis is a lawyer and a self-described “ J6er ,” i.e., a participant in the January 6, 2021 U.S. The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Capitol insurrection. This ruling primarily deals with venue.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MAY 7, 2021

UK group litigation against TikTok What happened : A representative action (essentially the UK version of a US class action) has been commenced against TikTok in England regarding its collection of children’s data in the UK and EEA. The proceedings have been stayed pending the UK Supreme Court’s determination in Lloyd v Google.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2023

In January 2021, it added another option, its Remote Associate Subscription, allowing firms to hire fractional associates for a set number of hours per month, starting at a monthly minimum of 30 hours. One example, he said, is a firm taking on a new litigation matter. Garman said the use cases for a law firm are endless.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 20, 2021

IKEA France fined €1m for unlawful employee surveillance What happened : The Versailles Criminal Court fined IKEA France €1 million for unlawful employee surveillance. The court found that IKEA France had conducted systematic surveillance on employees, union representatives and job applicants, as well as some customers.

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ABA TECHSHOW

JANUARY 29, 2021

Jim and Sharon welcome this year’s co-chairs, Allan Mackenzie and Roberta Tepper, to hear all about the reinvention of TECHSHOW 2021 in the virtual realm. His experience ranges from that of a former night-shift word processor to a Wall Street IT director with a specialty in litigation technology.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. ” The district court granted summary judgment to IJR. ” The district court found transformativeness because the defense placed the photo in a new context. The appeals court doesn’t see it.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts. The court says “none of Bigfinz’s t-shirts were sold in Illinois.” The court should have chastised Roblox for failing to do its Rule 11 homework regarding Bigfinz before filing the complaint.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) recently issued a report documenting the cost and time savings of remote court appearances in southern Illinois’ First Judicial Circuit. Both agreed to provide the ATJ Commission with data on the impact of remote court appearances during the pilot program.

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