Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. While ROSS vehemently denied the allegations, the lawsuit crippled its ability to raise new financing or explore potential acquisition opportunities.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A searchable database revealed that thousands of books were used “without permission,” causing some authors to express outrage and even launch lawsuits against Meta. Bogost’s response: Whether or not Meta’s behavior amounts to infringement is a matter for the courts to decide. Permission is a different matter.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2023

This case involves two rival personal injury law firms in Arizona, one of which engaged in competitive keyword advertising against the other. The court dismisses the lawsuit on summary judgment. The court focuses on the likelihood of consumer confusion. The court says the call logs are ambiguous.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2023

This is another lawsuit between personal injury law firms over competitive keyword ads. The plaintiff is Nicolet Law, based in Hudson, Wisconsin with 14 offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The defendant is the Bye, Goff firm, based in River Falls, Wisconsin with other in-state offices. 2023 WL 3340214 (W.D.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 29, 2025

Huangs case was dismissed because the lawsuit he filed lacked the required specificity, failed to identify particular infringing products, and contained vague, conclusory allegations. The court ultimately dismissed his case, citing his persistent failures to address these issues. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. The court said that the trademark owner had been using the trademark since 1985 and registered the trademark in 2006. ” Say what? ” The right answer should be “no one.” ” Uh oh.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. The initial cohort of plaintiffs were conservatives (Prager); but then as a purported “gotcha,” the law firm added LGBTQ (Divino) and people of color (Newman) plaintiff cohorts.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s defamation claim against attorney Kevin O’Keefe and his law firm, Parke O’Flaherty, Ltd., was dismissed by the court. Liberty Mutual demanded a retraction of the advertisement, which O’Keefe refused, leading to the lawsuit. So much to imagine here.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The court says “Because Walmart does not pay search engines to return organic search results or index webpages, it does not “use” the marks in connection with the sale or advertisement of goods.” ” The court adds: The Google search results are simply Walmart webpages that contain search results themselves.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fifteen years ago, courts generally avoided categorical pronouncements about the legitimacy of competitive keyword advertising. Courts almost never found trademark infringement in those cases, but it was only in the last decade that we started to get opinions saying this bluntly and clearly. Google (2d Circuit) and Rosetta Stone v.

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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. Note: one minor correction to the court’s description.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The district court initially dismissed Adler’s trademark claims , but the Fifth Circuit unfortunately revived the claims citing initial interest confusion (UGH). ” This sounds like a lot of potentially confused consumers, but the court isn’t persuaded by the volume.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2024

Tomelleri (who has appeared on this blog before ) illustrates fishes (see court exhibit on the right). If that rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday I blogged on a DIFFERENT fish painter, DeYoung, who also brought an IP lawsuit against a print-on-demand service (Pixels). The supervising judge agrees. Volitional Conduct.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants may perform tasks such as sorting or filing documents, preparing appointments and calendars, including trail schedules, and contacting clients and all other parties to lawsuits. In general, the work of a legal assistant is oriented toward supporting the organization and administration of a law firm.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 8, 2024

The court already sent that trademark claim to the jury ( my blog post on that ruling ). The court says the rival makes a trademark use in commerce by using the trademarks in its “metatags” (ugh). These omissions would be frustrating if the court didn’t reject the trademark owner on other grounds.

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Legal Talk Network

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Rudy Guiliani, and Syndey Powell. A SolarWinds Perspective for Law Firms. What to Watch: ‘Erasing Family’ Some of the most heartrending court cases are in family court, involving divorce and separation. More from the Network.

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Lineal Services

AUGUST 11, 2023

A Guide for Law Firms: Optimizing Legal Outcomes with Advanced eDiscovery Techniques In the continuously changing world of law, being up to speed on the newest technology is not only useful but necessary. Law firms must wrangle an increasingly complex web of electronic data as the digital frontier grows.

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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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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And the side benefit of that is then the API calls that, you know, he can open that up to law firms. And then of course, as a law firms were also solving a problem for vendors like us, that each individual law firm might have their own bespoke taxonomy that has their crazy, you know, areas of law that nobody’s ever heard of before.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 21, 2022

By my estimation, 90% of blog posts you’ll find on law firm websites fit into one of three formats, which I call the 1) case law breakdown, 2) evergreen analysis and 3) future forecast. In light of the Court’s decision, employers and their legal counsel should discuss adopting [policy 1] and [policy 2].

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Eric Goldman

MAY 21, 2023

The court outlines the plaintiff’s legal theory: because YouTube has automated software that scans videos to help users identify potentially infringing clips, Plaintiff’s DMCA notices imputed on YouTube knowledge of each and every single clip that infringed on a noticed film. Its complaint covers about 7,000 clips from 570 films.

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Centerbase

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Ensuring that your law firm’s website is ADA compliant is another way to show that you care. We’ll also dive into how to make your law firm website accessible and why, above all, accessibility matters and should be strived for. The ADA is a federal law enacted in 1990. Let’s get moving! What is the ADA?

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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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Legal Tech Monitor

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. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Superior Court Judge Juliet J.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. Series of Meetings. ” The case is No.

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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”). See Wengui v.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The path of every single lawsuit is filled with multiple inflection points, moments where attorneys have to make decisions about how the future is likely to unfold. The problem, however, was that these insights were impossible to access, especially for attorneys at the state trial court level. The pace of litigation is dizzying.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Plaintiff law firms are flooding television channels and digital media platforms with ads, seeking clients for personal injury and product liability cases. As court dockets continue to expand, the ad boom reflects both the growth in mass tort litigation and investor interest. a national law firm marketing agency.

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

As I reported here in November , the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. Superior Court in October. Patent and Trademark Office and then in D.C.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The courts won’t close down, but the divorce rate will drop for a bit. And people might not be so quick to file lawsuits because they won’t have as much money. Had you known the pandemic was coming (taking out the illness and court closures) what would you have done to prepare? People will hunker down. Things will get tight.

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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. take place.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

For litigation lawyers, it can predict how a case might play out in court, which makes it easier to decide if its worth settling or going all the way. Its a lifesaver for law firms or teams dealing with tons of paperwork. Theyre especially helpful for lawsuits or investigations that involve large amounts of information.

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Clio

JUNE 13, 2024

A court case might involve reviewing a client’s social media account, emails, and digital documents to determine the merits of an intellectual property lawsuit. Data security: Proper processes maintain the integrity of electronic evidence, ensuring it’s admissible in court. Updating clients on the progress of the review.

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