LLRX

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

TikTok headed to court on Sept. 16, 2024, in a bid to overturn a law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, layers for TikTok said imposing such a prohibition would have “staggering” consequences for free speech.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. The tighter the niche the better.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. Instagram appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Still, don’t overlook the key takeaways.

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Martindale-Avvo

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Most critically, relationship contracts (where used to define respective roles of each party and not deal with purely financial or property matters) are not legally enforceable, whereas prenuptial agreements, provided they meet required criteria usually established by state law, are legally binding contracts which can be enforced by a court.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

At this point, I’ve not paid close attention to the proceedings because everything at the district court level is a rehearsal for the inevitable appellate court review. Each side has phalanxes of lawyers, and no point is too picayune to spar over. I’m sure the appellate court will be eager to docket this one.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While federal law governs people and businesses across the U.S., each state has developed its own set of laws in many areas. These range from employment and family law to personal injury and criminal law. State laws may resemble one another in some situations, but they may vary greatly in others.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 22, 2023

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. The much harder question of “how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as the ‘author’ of a generated work” was not before the court. As one example of this, the district court pointed to Urantia Found. Perlmutter , No.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Several years ago, I published a piece here on Attorney at Work titled “ Solo Lawyers: Where Is Your Office?” Back then, lawyers working anywhere but a traditional bricks-and-mortar office with their firm name on the door typically glossed over their nontraditional working environment. Remember when working remotely was taboo?

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Legal Talk Network

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Billed as a crowdsourced problem-solving gathering of lawyers, clients, and technologists, this meeting-of-the-minds was founded by our good friend Christian Lang. Christian is the Head of Strategy at Reynen Court LLC as well as the author of the Blacklines & Billables blog which, by the way, has its own podcast.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Work-Related Requirement To get workers’ compensation benefits, a worker must be an employee rather than an independent contractor, and they must not work in a profession that is exempt under state law. This usually starts with an administrative process, but an appeal may eventually reach state court.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

On Legal Talk Today , Ohio State Law Prof. Foley, author of “ Presidential Elections and Majority Rule ” and “ Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States ,” walks listeners through the history of contested elections and possibilities stemming from Election 2020. Wait, is there an election this week?

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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. MK has not alleged any lost revenue or added expenditures as a result of DNP’s conduct,” wrote U.S.

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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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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

While many law graduates do indeed follow the path of practicing lawyers, the training and knowledge acquired during law school can lead to a wide range of non-traditional career opportunities, such as roles in public policy, legal technology, or social advocacy. What Can You Do with a Law Degree?: Z9 G74 2002.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2023

In June 2022, Nadia Metroka (a Florida lawyer , apparently) was arrested in Pennsylvania. The court easily dismisses per Section 230: ICS Provider. Numerous courts have held Google is one. This court repeatedly cites the Kabbaj case. Pennsylvania State Law Enforcement, 2023 WL 3767745 (E.D. Yandex Inc.,

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And when divorce lawyers think about marriage, they often think about prenuptial agreements. As lawyers, we find ourselves being asked to draft prenups and recommend what should and should not be included in the agreement. If you have a family law issue or would like me to speak about legal issues, you can connect with Ms.

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CaseFox

JULY 16, 2023

If, as a lawyer or a legal professional. For lawyers and legal professionals, time is money and they can give all their crucial time in conducting legal research. Today in this blog we are going to talk about top 9 free legal research tools for lawyers. You can find cases in Justia from various different courts.

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Advocate's Studio

OCTOBER 15, 2018

DoNotPay, a robot lawyer Chatbot app, is now promising to help people file suits in small claims court, no JD required. That is a lot cheaper than the hourly rate charged by the average lawyer. DoNotPay offered the ability to sue Equifax in small claims courts throughout the U.S.

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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 that every new case related to the law of copyright preemption of contracts leaves lawyers with a potential new set of arguments to defend or argue against with the law of copyright preemption.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

Many interpreted this as allowing an affirmative right to scrape public data, even if that was not the correct reading of the law and the reality was always more nuanced. Ten years ago, in web-scraping cases, you’d typically see plaintiffs in scraping cases file 10-15 legal claims, with law firms exploring any legal theory that might stick.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was an audaciously mockable pivot…and yet, the district court judge shockingly bought the argument. Unfortunately, the court expresses this intuitively obvious result in a baroque, technical, and inaccessible opinion. The district court said the “website” was the chattel. ” That’s true.

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LLRX

AUGUST 27, 2024

LLRX is pleased to share what Colarusso states is not a traditional syllabus, because this class he is teaching is not a traditional class. He won't just ask you to "think like a lawyer," he will require that you act like one.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 12, 2016

Instead, the Court dressed down the attorneys on their meet and confer efforts: This discovery dispute has quickly transformed into a behemoth, replete with competing and disputed descriptions of at the Parties’ efforts to meet and confer. The Court found that “unacceptable.” 23, 2015, No. C14-1443RAJ) 2015 U.S.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

state to introduce a new pathway for attorney licensing , allowing law school graduates to become licensed lawyers without the need for the traditional bar exam or graduating from an in-state law school. Oregon made history this week by becoming the first U.S.

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Well, here top lawyers explain how cases proceed differently according to allegations made by the complainant. The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. So, courts play crucial roles in serving justice as well as maintaining law and order.

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Legal Expert Connections

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Most worrisome to many legal ethics experts is the fact that the involvement of these attorneys is often hidden from the client, the class, and even the court. These referral fee arrangements are particularly useful to class action law firms as a method of avoiding competition amongst other firms that desire the role of lead counsel.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 15, 2024

Unlike the right of privacy, which is protected by the Constitution and specific federal statutes, the right of publicity is a patchwork of state and common law. This means your rights to your name, image, and likeness vary depending on which state law applies.

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CaseFox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hall is a seasoned lawyer with over two decades of experience in specializing in estate planning. Micah 0:00:34 My name is Micah Hall with the Hall Law Firm. So could you tell us some shocking stories of what went down when they ignored planning and state law? So, the default is your state law.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This approach can be a hard sell for lawyers talking to their business-side clients, for whom being a compliance volunteer is rarely popular. Given that this provision of BIPA is currently being tested in the courts, this is also an important area for lawyers to monitor going forward. Is that notice public?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 11, 2023

We live in a country where a court of law recently ruled that the All Writs Act couldn’t compel Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging to an accused terrorists. Trisha Sircar 8:13 Look, sometimes it does, you know, we we are an AmLaw 100 national law firm. And, you know, our clients are very varied. And across all sectors.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Federal and state laws provide important rights in the workplace. However, the laws can be complex, and employees may not always know the full scope of their rights. The Employment Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides aims to inform and empower them. Justia provides a 50-state survey on these laws.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The Center covers areas such as family law, employment, health care, education, and more. Family Law Issues for LGBTQ+ Individuals After a series of hard-fought court battles, the LGBTQ+ community won a landmark victory in 2015 with Obergefell v. Hodges , which established a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

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Clio

MARCH 14, 2024

This federal law was designed to create a consistent standard in the regulation of electronic signatures in the US, as well as to help encourage cross-border transactions in certain circumstances (which are made easier when contracts and documents may be signed electronically). Are electronic signatures valid in court?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

That I mean, that is, you know, with this AI, I think there’s two mistakes people make some people think, Oh, it’s a robot lawyer, and it’s going to take all the jobs like nonsense, but the other mistake is, it’s just going to be used for pedestrian things. I mean, that is people do go to law school to get to do that over and over, right?

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Martindale-Avvo

AUGUST 9, 2023

Real estate can change from state to state, as it is governed by state laws. Generally, real estate law is separated into two categories: Commercial and Residential. Real estate lawyers also deal with foreclosure, eviction, and housing discrimination. Real Estate Law and Property Transactions In certain U.S.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

Readers with good memories will recall that I have blogged several other cases against Salesforce with similar allegations, with mixed results in court. Salesforce decision closely, the court concludes that Salesforce doesn’t qualify for Section 230 immunity in the FOSTA case. Salesforce invoked the Fifth Circuit’s Doe v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 11, 2023

We live in a country where a court of law recently ruled that the All Writs Act couldn’t compel Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging to an accused terrorists. Trisha Sircar 8:13 Look, sometimes it does, you know, we we are an AmLaw 100 national law firm. And, you know, our clients are very varied. And across all sectors.

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