Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. federal courts.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Illinois Supreme Court today released a policy on the use of generative AI in the courts that authorizes its use by attorneys, judges, court staff and others, provided the use complies with legal and ethical standards. The Illinois Supreme Court AI Policy, which will take effect Jan.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But today, the judge overseeing the case, 3 rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the U.S. The judge also declined to decide Ross’s fair use defense or other legal issues remaining in the matter.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

The judge who struck down Elon Musk's compensation package is hearing it from the dumbest people on the planet. The post Elon Musk Supporters Bombard Judge With Angry Letters — She’s Not Even Opening Them appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 30, 2024

Maybe Reed O'Connor has some reason why he recused in one case and not the other -- he needs to explain it for the good of the courts. The post Judge Reed O’Connor Seems To Own Too Much Tesla To Rule Against CVS, Just Enough To Rule Against Liberal Fact-Checkers appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel. DNP is a web-based company purporting to use AI to provide legal services virtually. .”

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 9, 2025

The post Judge Wears VR Headset To View Defendant’s Account Of Events And What Fresh Hell Is This? Courtroom technology: all about coulda, not shoulda. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Given the explosion of generative AI tools available, many federal judges have issued standing orders governing their use. If your judge has issued such an order, Practical Guidance has the tools you need. The post Using Generative AI In Federal Court? We’ve Got You Covered appeared first on Above the Law.

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Trellis.Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

Summer is approaching, and for those in law school, this means internships, clerkships, pivotal research projects for law review or moot court, and bar review.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Judicial Office in the UK has issued official guidance to thousands of judges in England and Wales saying AI can be useful for summarising large amounts of text or in administrative tasks. Judges, like everybody else, need to be acutely aware that AI can give inaccurate responses as well as accurate ones.”

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Above the Law - Technology

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. Until now, the product, which launched in July 2022 , covered only motions to dismiss, claiming to predict how a judge will rule with an accuracy rate of 85%.

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Trellis.Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Boyd is a judge for the 187th District Court in Bexar County, Texas. She was elected to the bench in… Continue reading → The post You Be the Judge: Spotlighting the Texas Judiciary on YouTube first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. As of today, she has approximately 23,800 subscribers on YouTube. Stephanie R.

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Trellis.Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2024

One of the judge biographies receiving an incredible amount of attention on Trellis is that of the Honorable Judge David R.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 7, 2024

It can provide guidance on basic legal questions, help with court forms, and offer directions on presenting cases to judges. Enhancement of Courtroom Procedures and Trials : Digitalization and AI can transform how evidence is presented and received in court, leading to more dynamic and interactive trial environments.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Karlen Jonathan Karlen, who is not an attorney, filed a pro se appeal in the Missouri Court of Appeals. His initial filing was deficient in several respects, but after the court gave him several deadline extensions, he ultimately filed an appellate brief and a reply brief. The court was not sympathetic. ” Smith v. .

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Yet, the SAD Scheme jurisprudential distortion field worked its magic once again, and the judge rejected their legitimate pushback. It is baffling to see how acquiescent judges can be when it comes to obvious deficiencies of the SAD Scheme. The judge subsequently held the marketplaces in contempt for violating the injunction.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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LawSites

MAY 10, 2021

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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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

Cite Wikipedia in an argument to a judge, and you are likely to get a disapproving glare in response. “Give me solid precedent,” the judge is likely to say, “cases and statutes and respected authorities.” The increase was larger for citations by lower courts, and mostly absent for citations by appellate courts.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Instead, as with hundreds of other Emojico defendants, the judge in this case issued an ex parte restraining order against the merchant, prompting Amazon to freeze the merchant’s account and cash. The court should have embraced its first instinct that the merchant didn’t use “emoji” as a mark.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Recently, Judge Seeger in the Northern District of Illinois surprisingly refused to grant rightsowners’ defendant identity sealing requests in at least two cases ( 1 , 2 ), but there may be more. In very similar opinions, Judge Seeger explained why defendant sealing is inappropriate. This blog post tracks the Goorin Bros.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The court says this implementation isn’t a sign-in-wrap because the CMG terms lacked a call-to-action: “the login through Facebook screen never informed Plaintiff that acceptance of a separate agreement was required before she could access the service, which is the defining feature of a sign-in wrap agreement.”

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LawSites

JANUARY 2, 2024

used his year-end report to weigh in on the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession, saying he does not believe AI will replace human judges. “As 2023 draws to a close with breathless predictions about the future of Artificial Intelligence, some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete,” he wrote.

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CaseFox

MARCH 30, 2023

The role of judges in the judicial system is to make impartial decisions based on the evidence presented in court. However, as the volume of cases increases and the complexity of legal cases grows, there is a debate about whether we should replace judges with artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

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Clio

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference , we sat down with Judge Victoria Pratt , a passionate advocate for criminal justice reform. But as Judge Pratt highlighted, its impact goes beyond convenience. AI in the legal arena Judge Pratt also touched on one of the biggest shifts in law: the rise of artificial intelligence. Her message?

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This case got assigned to Judge Alsup’s courtroom. I previously summarized Judge Alsup’s modus operandi about motions to dismiss: Judge Alsup gives the benefit of the doubt to plaintiffs on motions to dismiss, only to hammer them on summary judgment if their evidence doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 10, 2024

Optimized Legal Audio is an artificial intelligence engine in its infancy that tries to hear what judges say, read the language they use, and through this to infer their relative preference for one attorney’s argument over another’s. The post Generating Predictions For <em>Grants Pass v.

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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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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2024

The court rejects most of Snapchat’s motion to dismiss. Section 230 The court’s Section 230 analysis runs for 13 pages (pages 9-22), but it has an inappropriately laconic denouement. Hacking the Precedent The key to the judge’s unexpected ruling is how the court manipulates the precedent it purports to consider.

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LawSites

APRIL 11, 2022

The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts.

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Trellis.Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On November 22, 2023, the lawsuit against Lizzo by three of her previous backup dancers had its first court hearing.

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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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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I previously covered the district court ruling in this case. The lower court dismissed the claims against Snap per Section 230: Doe’s negligent undertaking claim alleges that Snapchat has failed to monitor content and messages sent between parties on its platform. The plaintiffs invoked Lemmon v. Snap to get around Section 230.

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LawSites

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. Eventually, Clark hopes to see the use of court analytics become the industry standard, commonplace among litigators and expected by clients. .

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 25, 2024

Judge Breyer of the Northern District of California had none of it. As a result, the court finds that much of the lawsuit is a SLAPP. By declaring the lawsuit a SLAPP, the court concludes that Twitter misused the court system in an attempt to suppress CCDH’s speech. . * * * Most readers should stop reading the blog post here.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MAY 31, 2023

DeSantis’s Motion Against Judge Walker Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis filed a motion to recuse the Hon.

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