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4 Strategies for Preventing and Handling Frivolous Lawsuits

Lawmatics

There are more than 40 million lawsuits in the United states alone every year. And only 2% of those will ultimately proceed with a lawsuit. Contract and small claims cases comprise the bulk of the civil caseload, and unfortunately, most of these lawsuits are baseless claims, also known as frivolous lawsuits.

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eBay Isn’t Liable for Merchants’ Sales of Items That Violate Environmental Laws–US v. eBay

Eric Goldman

eBay defeats the lawsuit. The EZ Lynk court held that the marketplace qualified for Section 230–what I characterized at the time as “an embarrassing loss for the government.” Presumably the downplayed language was designed to discourage class action lawsuits). Is eBay the “Seller”?

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Strategies and Tips for Writing a Personal Injury Demand Letter

Clio

For example, has a lawsuit been filed yet, or is the litigation proceeding and discovery underway? Demand for compensation and (possibly) settlement amount Your demand letter should definitely provide some sense of the overall value of your client’s case and what could potentially be recovered at trial.

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I’ve been a longtime listener, but it’s great to be able to join you first time as a contributor to say Travis Smith, we’re a UK law firm. We can track him it’s been used. And that most of the time, we don’t have enough time to read all of the information to assess the risk appropriately. Oliver Bethell 2:09 Absolutely.

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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

on social media) Loss of public and client trust in your firm Malpractice allegations and lawsuits What are your ethical and regulatory obligations? Conduct regular reviews It’s easy to overlook weaknesses in your law firm’s data security if you don’t take the time to review it.

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Virginia Enacts a Comprehensive Privacy Law – Similarities and Differences Among VCDPA, CCPA and GDPR

Debevoise Data Blog

VCDPA follows the CCPA and GDPR in applying a broad definition of personal data, sweeping well beyond the traditional U.S. It does not include data that has been de-identified or data that is publicly available Persons acting in either a commercial or employment context are excluded from the VCDPA’s definition of “consumer.”

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

Legal Tech Monitor

I’ve been a longtime listener, but it’s great to be able to join you first time as a contributor to say Travis Smith, we’re a UK law firm. We can track him it’s been used. And that most of the time, we don’t have enough time to read all of the information to assess the risk appropriately. Oliver Bethell 2:09 Absolutely.