Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

When the litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down in 2022, it was a shock to almost everybody but the founder. The company had been seen as one of the leaders in the fast-growing field of litigation analytics, and since its founding in California in 2017, it had significantly expanded the scope of its product and raised $5.7

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For those who have to go to court without a lawyer, navigating the justice system can be daunting. Courtroom5 is a unique justice tech company that addresses that problem by providing pro se litigants with the training, tools, documents and support they need to represent themselves.

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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. This figure aligns with a broader trend: the percentage of law graduates not taking the bar exam rose from 3.86% in 2018 to 4.90% in 2022. In 2022, 84.6%

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nintendos Legal Crusade Between 2022 and 2024, Nintendo launched numerous lawsuits and legal actions, shutting down fan projects, modding communities, and emulator developers. A well-drafted patent can deter infringement before litigation even begins.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a former litigator, Schafer experienced firsthand the frustrating scramble to finalize briefs and prepare filings. Looking ahead, Schafer expects to expand ClearBrief’s features to assist paralegals along with corporate attorneys beyond litigation. Excuse was Sorry, didn’t check it. So Jackie, welcome to The Geek in Review.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. That is the power and beauty of the Supreme Court’s rule changes and the legal regulatory sandbox.”.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

This tool allows law firms to analyze aggregated and normalized state trial court data to gain competitive intelligence across cases, practice areas, and performance. Collecting this unstructured data from county courts is very challenging, but provides valuable business insights. So that was really never possible before.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 4, 2024

Clayton County case , where the Supreme Court affirmed sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be discriminated against in the workplace. Jackie opens up about her story and why she cares so much about constitutional rights in the 2022 pilot episode of Sidebar. overseeing well-being initiatives for more than 1,000 attorneys.

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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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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. It was also a winner of the 2022 Startup Alley competition that I organize as part of ABA Techshow.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The court describes the phenomenon: This case is one of many in the Northern District of Illinois’s “cottage industry” of “Schedule A” cases. As of March 2022, over 1,900 such cases had been filed. Few defendants appear in court, so plaintiffs move for default judgment and collect what funds they can.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Given that they are litigating 512(f), your wish was partially granted. Temu entered the US market in September 2022. The court refuses Temu’s preliminary injunction request. Day to Day Imports * Court Mistakenly Thinks Copyright Owners Have a Duty to Police InfringementSunny Factory v. Alper Automotive v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York dismissed plaintiffs’ suit in its entirety, holding that plaintiffs had no cognizable claim for damages or injunctive relief because they failed at this stage of litigation to demonstrate that they had been harmed in any way by OpenAI’s actions. 2022), cert. Double Scienter.

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

Law firms that develop expertise in areas like opioid litigation, nursing home negligence, and emerging vehicle technologies will be well-positioned to help clients affected by these issues. million in 2022 ( National Safety Council ). The total cost of work injuries in 2022 was $167 billion ( National Safety Council ).

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The volume of newly issued UK High Court claims fell in 2023, while the number of insolvency applications was dramatically higher than in 2022, painting a clear picture of the.

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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. Michael Flores, representing himself, filed a claim for misrepresentation under Section 512(f) on June 28, 2022, twelve days after the CCB began. The respondent did not opt out and the opt out period ended on October 24, 2022.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. This deal is a major milestone for Pre/Dicta and the entire field of predictive litigation analytics.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 5, 2023

In March, the Colorado Supreme Court approved a program to license a new tier of legal service providers. In fact, according to the Colorado Judicial Branch , 74 percent of parties involved in Colorado domestic relations cases represented themselves in fiscal year 2022.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Trends to Watch in 2022. We are seeing several trends in the practice of law and coinciding legal technology currents that will impact law firms in 2022. As business clients deploy new technology to manage litigation, contracts and communications, they will prefer working with equally tech-focused outside counsel.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 19, 2024

You may recall the 2022 Buffalo mass-shooting , which was committed by a murderer responding to the “ Great Replacement Theory.” When asked why the motion fails, the court points to the entire 419 paragraph complaint and says “res ipsa loquitor.”

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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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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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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Pre/Dicta , a litigation analytics platform that predicts how federal court judges will rule, is expanding to cover new motion types and also to predict litigation timelines. It will also now predict timelines for key litigation events. Pre/Dicta founder Dan Rabinowitz calls it finding their doppelgangers.

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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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Discovery Advocate

JUNE 7, 2023

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. 31, 2022) Practical Insight Reliance on an employee’s general statement that they do not use text messages for work-related matters may not be sufficient to rule out their device as a potential source of discoverable data. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. ,

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Discovery Advocate

JUNE 8, 2023

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. 31, 2022) Practical Insight Reliance on an employee’s general statement that they do not use text messages for work-related matters may not be sufficient to rule out their device as a potential source of discoverable data. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. ,

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 17, 2025

I don’t normally start my blog posts with a meme, but this one tells you everything you need to know: * * * This blog post concerns the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), passed by the California legislature in 2022. Unsurprisingly, on remand, the district court declared the rest unconstitutional.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For those who have to go to court without a lawyer, navigating the justice system can be daunting. Courtroom5 is a unique justice tech company that addresses that problem by providing pro se litigants with the training, tools, documents and support they need to represent themselves.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 9, 2023

IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announced today that it released its new The Past and Future of State Court Civil Filings report. In 2022, the World Justice Index ranked the United States 115 out of 140 countries as to whether people can access and afford civil justice.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents. It scans for document type (e.g.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 25, 2023

Harvey AI’s Capabilities Harvey AI’s capabilities include: Contract analysis, Due diligence, Litigation, and regulatory compliance. Funding Received in December 2022 In December 2022, Open.AI Since November 2022, over 3,500 of their lawyers have tested Harvey AI, posing 40,000 questions during their day-to-day work.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court announced this week amendments to Rule 299 that will double compensation for an attorney appointed by a court in Illinois to represent an indigent party. The amended Rule raises attorney compensation to $150 per hour, up from its previous minimum of $75 per hour. The amendments are effective on Jan.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 2, 2024

Ryanair recently “prevailed” in its CFAA claim in its litigation against Booking.com. Not only that, but this case makes it more likely that other plaintiffs and defendants will suffer lengthy, protracted litigation to reach similarly absurd conclusions. According to this court, it is. Booking Holdings Inc.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

I previously blogged this case in 2022. The court dismisses them all. The 9th Circuit reverses the district court on the Section 230 dismissal, but it proves inconsequential because all of the claims fail for lack of merit. To me, the phrase is an oxymoron–courts can’t just randomly manufacture agency relationships.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2023

I hope this post makes clear why I get so irritated whenever I see the phrases referenced in a court opinion or invoked by a grandstanding politician. March 11, 2022) Al-Ahmed v. May 20, 2022) In re Apple Inc. App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litigation , 2022 WL 4009918 (N.D. 2, 2022) Dangaard v.

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