LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2023, the justice tech ecosystem continued to grow rapidly, with a significant increase in solutions addressing access to justice-related challenges for consumers. featured in ABA Journal , Pulse 2.0 , Bob Ambrogi’s LawNext podcast , and Accelerator Insider , and its executive director, Maya Markovich, was named to the 2023 Fastcase 50.

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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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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

The law firm, Nextpoint Law Group (NLG), will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments, including trial strategy, early case assessment, document review, discovery drafting, legal research and brief writing. Its lawyers will not appear in court.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This observation applies manifestly to our court systems: an inefficient and complicated civil justice system has become its own greatest enemy, frustrating its very purpose of providing access to civil justice for all. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e., And then the necessary investment will happen.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 14, 2024

There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. It is an all-out brawl in federal court, with no-expense-spared battles over each and every picayune litigation issue.

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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

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. Few defendants appear in court, so plaintiffs move for default judgment and collect what funds they can. For a fuller description of the litigation genre and its problems, see my paper.

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Legal IT Insiders

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 … 2023 UK litigation analysis: Fewer High Court claims, less firms instructed, and a spike in insolvency cases as the economy bites Read More » The post 2023 UK litigation (..)

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 30, 2023

The court denies a preliminary injunction. Though the court says it’s a close question, the court says that the plaintiff does not have a likelihood of success on the merits. To analyze this, the court applies the standard likelihood of consumer confusion factors. The litigants directly compete. Not relevant.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2023

Docket Alarm , which is owned by Fastcase , is one of several products on the market that allow legal professionals to search and browse dockets of federal and state courts. ” The way it works is simple: As you are browsing a court docket sheet, you mouse-over the link to any document. All litigation filings on Docket Alarm (e.g.,

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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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Law Technology Today

MARCH 1, 2023

KEYNOTE: WELCOME TO TECHSHOW & LEGALTECH VISIONARIES PANEL Kick off TECHSHOW 2023 with this opening session! Meet the TECHSHOW Board, honor the 2023 recipient of the James I. The supreme court of the fictional state of Centralia has under consideration similar proposals to modify its attorney Rules of Professional Conduct.

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TechLaw Crossroads

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With ediscovery, hard court or regulatory deadlines have to be met. It’s more about how quick you can get the job done to meet court and adversary pressures. He was visually shaken about the potential of ediscovery to overwhelm the system and the costs it could bring to litigation. And here’s another thought.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 1, 2023

Courts, the U.S. Discovery platforms—as in eDiscovery—hold all sorts of confidential and attorney-client privilege documents that could be the subject of active litigation,” Boote said. ” Casepoint’s clients include the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S.

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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. 2023 WL 2414258 (N.D.

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Lawsuit Litigation Court Litigator 111

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 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. Courting Your Clients is offered exclusively by Legal Expert Connections, Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Indeed, they are already filing lawsuits despite the pending Supreme Court appeal hanging over the law. Courts regularly uphold these kinds of forum-selection clauses So the TOS forum selection clause is effective, and this case gets sent out of Texas. 2023 WL 8434452 (N.D. 4, 2023) Also noted: Reaud v. But surprise!

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2025

” The plaintiffs brought a pre-enforcement challenge to the law, but the court denies a preliminary injunction. The court explains: Deepfakes are image, audio, or video files that mimic real or nonexistent people saying and doing things that never happened. The court does realize the overlap here, right? ” Hmm.

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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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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

Jason Fyk’s recent litigation campaign reminds me of the classic story Moby Dick, with Fyk in the Captain Ahab role and Section 230 as his white whale. His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. The Supreme Court denied cert. Freedom Def. Initiative v. Sessions, 697 F. App’x 7 (D.C.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2023

So the publicity stunt of the robot lawyer sneaking into court is no more, as Joshua Browder , founder and CEO of the self-help legal site DoNotPay , yesterday pulled the plug on the prank, saying he had received threats from bar officials of prosecution and even imprisonment. Good morning!

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Discovery Advocate

JANUARY 16, 2024

It is crucial for litigators to carefully consider the terms of an ESI protocol when drafting and before agreeing to it. There are valuable insights to be gained from the case of In re StubHub Refund Litigation , 2023 WL 3092972 (N.D. To ensure success, the protocol must be based on the actual IT infrastructure of the client.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It is theoretically possible that bounty-based private litigation is the best way to enforce a law, but in practice those situations are rare or non-existent. The Supreme Court has held, so far, that the constitutionality of a bounty-based law cannot be challenged prospectively when there’s no risk of government enforcement.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 16, 2023

LeadClick decision , which said: “Courts typically have held that internet service providers, website exchange systems , online message boards, and search engines fall within this definition.” ” This is the kind of argument only a pro se litigant would make in 2023. Zotos , 2023 WL 3946827 (11th Cir.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 19, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) announced that it is accepting nominations for two awards: the Thomas L. This award honors Justice Kilbride, who was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court in 2000 and chosen as Chief Justice by his colleagues in 2010. The nomination deadline is June 23, 2023.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2023

However, as we know, courts routinely and predictably make errors when ruling on ex parte motions, so any additional legislative embrace of ex parte procedures is always fraught with peril. ” As a result, courts have rarely granted it (and it probably wasn’t needed or applicable even in those rare cases).

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 7, 2023

Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism Commissioner Trisha M. Rich was sworn in as the Chicago Bar Association’s 2023 – 2024 Secretary at the organization’s Annual Meeting on June 29, 2023. Rich, the following individuals were sworn in as 2023-2024 officers: President Ray J. In addition to Ms.

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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. 23, 2015) the court observed that responding parties presumptively bear the expense of complying with discovery requests unless the expense is “significant.”

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e-discovery Court e-records Litigation 97

Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2023

He brought a state court class action lawsuit against Ripoff Report, alleging violations of CA B&P 17200 and the implied covenant of good faith. Ripoff Report removed the case to federal court. The plaintiff successfully remanded the case back to state court and got some of its attorneys’ fees covered. Cisneros v.

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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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Dewey B Strategic

JUNE 21, 2023

Today ECFX announced that they had raised $7M in funding to expand their court notice management platform. The system is designed to reduce risk of missed deadlines as well as repetitive administrative work associated with court notices. Many litigation firms still process notices manually, leading to increased risk and higher costs.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 29, 2023

The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. The court summarizes: the “Meta Forum-Selection Clause is mandatory, valid, and enforceable.” This ruling primarily deals with venue. ” Validity.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 19, 2024

Here’s the court’s entire Section 230 “analysis” (as opposed to its recap of the parties’ arguments): plaintiff has set forth sufficient facts with regard to each defendant to allege viable causes of action under a products liability theory.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 14, 2023

The court says Broughty qualified as a limited-purpose public figure. The court essentially characterizes Twitter as an anything-goes hellscape, at least when it comes to online feuds : the “over-all context” in which the alleged defamation occurred here is Twitter. Bouzy , 2023 WL 5013654 (D.N.J. Case Citation : Broughty v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 2, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has adopted a new rule that establishes guidelines for the state’s courts to use “parenting coordinators” to resolve minor issues that are causing conflict in family law cases. The rule went into effect immediately, on May 24, 2023. How do they interact with the court?

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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. ” The court cites Force v. The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I

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