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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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million pre-seed funding round led by two venture capital firms, Maple , which invests in companies with Canadian roots, and Haystack , which invests in early-stage companies. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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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. I thought lots of luck – and why would you want to stop the advancement of the law, which the use of AI in legal publishing represents. Permission is a different matter.

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Trellis.Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Law firms are… Continue reading → The post Legal Safeguards: Microsoft’s Role in Shielding Customers from AI-Related Lawsuits first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. As tech companies compete to produce the best generative AI (GAI), the legal industry is learning how to adapt to this new norm.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 24, 2021

Managing people is tough, and employment issues are among the thorniest that law firm managers must face. Here’s advice on law firm risk management from a managing partner who also represents those disgruntled employees. Here are a few observations and tips from an employment lawyer who also manages a law firm.

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Clio

JANUARY 30, 2024

Law firm data security should be a top priority for any practice, and here’s why: Clients trust you with their most confidential information. Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. You don’t want your law firm to become part of that statistic.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Less than four hours later, attorney webpages geared toward crash victims and their families were popping up, and in less than 24 hours, law firms were announcing retained clients and new lawsuits. In June 2022, an Amtrak train carrying 200 passengers derailed in Missouri. Keep reading this post for more details.

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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 Case That Proves the Point Take, for example, the recent case of Huang v. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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Law Technology Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Law firms with data privacy practices are seeing a substantial uptick in questions from clients concerned with these topics, and clients who require defense against a pending legal action. Over 18 class-action lawsuits have been filed against hospitals and counting, alleging they are sharing health data via online trackers.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

Ayala does not appear to have learned that the cases were non-existent until the court identified the questionable cases and issued an order to show cause demanding the attorneys and law firms involved produce the cited cases or face sanctions.

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS A lawyer who wanted his pleadings to stand out has been ordered to remove a large purple dragon watermark from each page of a lawsuit that he filed in federal court. Perrone of the Dragon Lawyers law firm to refile the April 2 complaint without the logo of a dragon in a business suit.

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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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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and data analytics, present both challenges and opportunities for law firms and in-house legal departments. For law firms, prioritizing these areas preserves billable hours while improving operational efficiency.

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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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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., Liberty Mutual demanded a retraction of the advertisement, which O’Keefe refused, leading to the lawsuit. was dismissed by the court. So much to imagine here.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Law firms are. Continue reading → The post Legal Safeguards: Microsoft’s Role in Shielding Customers from AI-Related Lawsuits first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. As tech companies compete to produce the best generative AI (GAI), the legal industry is learning how to adapt to this new norm.

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Centerbase

JUNE 14, 2023

For five quarters in a row, law firm profitability has fallen, according to the 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market , a study conducted by the Thomson Reuters Institute and Georgetown. Data are based on reported results from 170 US-based law firms, including 46 AmLaw 100 firms, 47 AmLaw 200 firms, and 77 midsize law firms.)

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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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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The subpoenas offer no explanation of how the companies may be related to the lawsuit, but request documents relating to any relationships between the companies and ROSS or LegalEase, the company that TR alleges ROSS engaged to help it steal content from Westlaw — an allegation the now-shuttered ROSS denies.

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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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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2024

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). New practice area alert for law students: the specialty niche of fish artists asserting IP claims against print-on-demand services. DMCA Online Safe Harbors.

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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.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Less than four hours later, attorney webpages geared toward crash victims and their families were popping up, and in less than 24 hours, law firms were announcing retained clients and new lawsuits. Go Pro Now> In June 2022, an Amtrak train carrying 200 passengers derailed in Missouri. Keep reading this post for more details.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ebooks can help your law firm showcase its experience while improving the number of leads for new clients. Keep reading to learn why you should consider publishing an ebook for your law firm. If your law firm has never published an ebook, you might question the relevance of doing so. Examples for Law Firms.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 26, 2023

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's client Mondelez reported more than 51,000 employees' personal data was acquired in a data breach of the law firm.

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CaseFox

JUNE 3, 2023

In today’s digital era, lawyers and law firms are embracing online platforms not only for case management but also for accepting payments. This makes it crucial for law firms to prioritize the protection of sensitive payment information. Why Is PCI Compliance Crucial For Law Firms?

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 22, 2023

In addition to adding state courts, Radar is introducing daily case reports by jurisdiction and revamped lawsuit alerts that can be configured around courts, practice areas, topics, industry segments, law firms, parties or free-text searches. Previously, Radar covered only federal courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In addition to adding state courts, Radar is introducing daily case reports by jurisdiction and revamped lawsuit alerts that can be configured around courts, practice areas, topics, industry segments, law firms, parties or free-text searches. Previously, Radar covered only federal courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models Katyanna Quach Three digital publishers have sued OpenAI over claims that it stole their copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT in two separate lawsuits filed on Wednesday. The same law firm, Loevy & Loevy, is running both cases.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 28, 2022

You might think hurricanes and wildfires, but slower-moving disasters can fell your firm, too: illness, theft, employee lawsuits, computer malfunction. Cybercreeps, thieves and punks are real, and they are targeting smaller law firms at a disturbing rat e. Disasters, Fast and Slow. Attack of the Cyber Creeps.

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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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Eric Goldman

MAY 21, 2023

The opinion indicates that, with the help (and maybe the recommendation) of the law firm Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, Athos chose the former. This does make me wonder about Athos’ choice to double-down on the old-fashioned takedown notices, costing lots of time and money, to preserve the lawsuit option.

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Lineal Services

AUGUST 25, 2023

A clear understanding of the landscape is essential as law firms and businesses negotiate this complex subject. Understanding the Global eDiscovery Services Landscape Global eDiscovery services exist in a complicated environment where different aspects of the service must line up to provide a defensible and accurate solution.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Elevator pitch: Affordable cybersecurity solutions are lacking and 29% of law firms have suffered a security breach.

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Clio

AUGUST 16, 2023

For one, a recent global cyberattack targeted , among others, three of the top Biglaw firms in the world. Furthermore, according to the American Bar Association’s 2022 Legal Technology Survey Report , 27% of law firms reported having experienced a security breach at some point. What does a data breach look like for lawyers?

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