Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 31, 2023

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon. Walker, a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, from presiding over Disney’s lawsuit.

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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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Clio

APRIL 1, 2024

Also, Court clerks are indispensable members of the judicial system. So, what exactly does it mean to be a court clerk? So, what exactly does it mean to be a court clerk? Court clerk duties and responsibilities First off, what does a courtroom clerk do on a daily basis? Assisting judges and attorneys.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 14, 2024

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions , and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after filing cases that were “completely fabricated.” District Judge John E. On March 8, the U.S.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. Farwell , the lawyer filed three separate legal memoranda that cited and relied on fictitious cases. Karlen Jonathan Karlen, who is not an attorney, filed a pro se appeal in the Missouri Court of Appeals. XYZ Corporation.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. The plaintiff eventually dismissed all of the defendants within 5 weeks of filing the complaint. The court pays out some of the bond but rejects the other relief.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 16, 2023

Anyone who has had to manage the internal redistribution and filing of daily docket updates from dozens of courts for hundreds of cases in a large law firm, celebrated on the day that automated docket management tools from companies such as PacerPro and ECFX hit the market. The order does not mention the company ECFX.

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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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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 2, 2024

Maybe this was just the jury’s way of telling the judge and the parties, “This case is dumb. This has been a hard case to follow online, because many of the key rulings have been filed under seal. I wrote about this case back in 2022 when the judge made his initial decisions on the motion to dismiss pleadings. I want to go home.”

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civil justice fellow at the Rhode Center, who was formerly a senior associate consultant at Bain & Co. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e.,

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In light of that conclusion, the court declined to rule on the parallel Gonzalez v.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. In an affidavit filed in the case , Steven A. ” Did that excuse garner sympathy from the court?

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Clio

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A law clerk is a legal professional who supports attorneys, judges, or legal departments by conducting legal research, analyzing cases, and preparing legal documents. What is the difference between a court clerk and a court assistant? What is the difference between a paralegal and a law clerk?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. Often, it comes down to what the judge is reading alone in their chambers.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. Three courts of appeals have answered “no.”

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. In an affidavit filed in the case , Steven A. Did that excuse garner sympathy from the court?

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

Two top-line takeaways you might get from this post: A two-click formation process avoids the risk of judges moving the goalposts about formation, and If you are amending your TOS, have an airtight plan for building a credible evidentiary record. The court sees it differently. And I guess pink is overly distracting to this judge?

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

By guest blogger Elizabeth Townsend Gard , John E. Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Step Two: The CCB does a compliance review of the filed claim to determine if the claim qualifies for the CCB. The respondent files a response to the claim.

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Clio

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Keynote highlights Judge Victoria Pratt With her extensive experience as Chief Judge of Newark Municipal Court in New Jersey, Judge Victoria Pratt offered Clio Con attendees profound insights into delivering justice. You will be able to track the progress of a form and be notified when it’s been completed.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In July 2024, Judge Engelmayer dismissed nearly all of the SEC’s claims against SolarWinds and its now-CISO. The Order also found that, in light of the compromise of the external file-sharing environment, Avaya had been negligent in stating that there was “no current evidence” of access to “our other internal systems.”

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

WebPreserver generates a certificate for authenticating this evidence in court. Trellis lets you search state court dockets to better understand your judge, opposing counsel and the opposing party by analyzing their historical record. Legal Research Tools That Find the Previously Unfindable.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 3, 2023

Professor Kenton Brice, director of the Donald E. A CAUTIONARY TALE OF POTENTIAL MALPRACTICE AND SANCTIONS FROM POOR USE OF CHATGPT Steven Schwartz, a practicing New York lawyer for 30 years, used ChatGPT to prepare a brief for federal court. Opposing counsel filed a response brief calling out the bogus cases and moving for sanctions.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 30, 2016

Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Judge Wang also made it a point to highlight the Chief Justice’s note that Rule 1 gives both lawyers and the Court an affirmative duty to work together to resolve disputes efficiently. The new Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are bringing new voices to discuss eDiscovery. LEXIS 7668.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 7, 2016

The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. The Court stated that litigation hold was not effectively communicated and the officers listed in the City’s initial disclosures did not acknowledge receiving the hold notice. Judge Robert Sweet granted the Plaintiff’s motion for sanctions.

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Percipient

JUNE 23, 2022

That is, how the use of AI can be defended if its use is challenged by a judge or opposing party. Models can be trained by a human reviewer who codes files to improve the accuracy of a model. In e-discovery, models can be tailored to a dataset such as Continuous Active Learning (CAL). CAL is typically used to identify relevancy.

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Joshua Gilliland

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I have met lawyers who have a crazy idea: They HAVE to read EVERY email, document, Excel file, video, and every other bit of ESI produced in discovery. Lawyers have a duty of competency to their client, and candor to the court, to look at what is relevant to their case and responsive to discovery requests. Judge James P.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

So, we had lawyers appearing as cats in court proceedings, legal commentators losing their gigs due to inappropriate behavior online, kids and pets making guest appearances in virtual hearings, and other misadventures. Remember how much you practiced your first moot court argument or your first “real court” argument?

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

In past years, the judges narrowed the ballot to 25 semifinalists. This year, out of the 55 applications we received, the judges felt that so many deserved the opportunity to compete that we eliminated only 15 and we are putting the rest out for your votes. Easily export the summary to MS Word for the case file.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 4, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on February 25, 2015, that state regulatory boards, composed mainly of active market participants, are not immune from antitrust liability unless actively supervised by the state government. Soon after, in June 2015, LegalZoom cited the Supreme Court decision on teeth whitening in a $10.5

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Lawmatics

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Some legal technology trends in 2023 include: 1 Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) ODR platforms enable lawyers to resolve disputes online without in-person meetings or court appearances to save time and money. Legal technology also changes the legal profession by automating manual tasks with AI-powered software.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The investigations come just one month after a class action was filed in the English High Court against YouTube for allegedly processing children’s data without obtaining parental permission or providing appropriate disclosures (see our September Round Up ).

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

New data breach notification guidance from the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), multi-million Euro penalties from DPAs in Germany, Spain and Norway, and court rulings on discriminatory use of algorithms, the one-stop-shop and GDPR’s territorial scope were all in the mix. English court rules GDPR does not apply to U.S.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Is it advice, if I decide, yes, I’m going to get a patent, then I file it with a patent or trademark office, that’s the registration service. And it’s not nearly as sexy as saying I’m going to represent you in court. That’s really hard, much like the court system is really hard today. Am I giving advice for patent law?

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LawSites

MAY 31, 2022

In litigation and intellectual property matters, it is the responsibility of docketing professionals to ensure that electronic court pleadings and documents are properly and timely filed, to maintain internal databases of docketed documents, and to facilitate access to documents by the firm’s legal professionals. I don’t care.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

” My post tried to translate this statement: Underneath this anodyne conclusion, the court is impliedly making two key points: (1) users’ activities do not contribute to evaluating the defendant’s 1591 exposure, and (2) the applicable scienter to get around 230 is 1591’s “actual knowledge” requirement.

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Dennis Kennedy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

When developing products, design with modularity in mind – this way, components can be replaced or upgraded without discarding the entire product, thereby reducing e-waste.” I do not intend to file any patent applications with respect to the G-A-L Method or other inventions that might be covered in this paper.

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