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Thanks to Trolls, Photo Copyright Lawsuits and Lawyers Face Reputational Hurdles

Legal Tech Monitor

Deal, founder and principal attorney at The Law Office of David C. “Photographers are in this impossible position of being snobs about their work and not posting, to being labeled opportunists and copyright trolls because they take offense when people copy their image without getting paid,” said David C.

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Five Freaky Friday Workplace Trends

Attorney at Work

You might think hurricanes and wildfires, but slower-moving disasters can fell your firm, too: illness, theft, employee lawsuits, computer malfunction. Back to ghosting, there’s a better trend to take up this Halloween: Caspering is the art of letting someone down gently — being honest with people instead of fading out.

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Courts Are Rejecting Attempts to Weaponize Laws That Protect Consumer Reviews

Eric Goldman

In the last year, a team of California litigators (from Singleton Schreiber in Sacramento and Law Offices of Thomas Leary from San Diego) has launched 1670.8 I don’t know how many lawsuits they’ve filed because the team is filing many (all?) After a decade of relative dormancy, 1670.8 enforcement campaign.

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When Should a Lawyer Hire a Private Eye?

Martindale-Avvo

This could be because they need to serve a lawsuit, find an heir, or ask the person questions related to a case. Some law offices even have full-time investigators on staff. Some public state attorney offices hire full-time investigators to assist their legal teams. In other scenarios, private eyes are retained.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.). But it is, at this point, beyond doubt that the law office of tomorrow will not be the same as the law office of 2019.

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How Secure File-Sharing and eSignatures Protect Your Client Data

Rocket Matter

million settlement for a class action lawsuit stemming from a data breach at their firm. We also have to face the fact that data breaches are becoming much more common for law firms than they were ten years ago—and they’re affecting more people. Now, not every firm will face such debilitating fees, but the costs can be significant.

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CES 2023: 10 Tech Trends That Will Impact Legal

TechLaw Crossroads

If true, can we expect smart law offices and courtrooms? Already we see the metaverse expanding into law. So much of law is devoted to sorting out faults for these kinds of accidents. Fewer of these kinds of lawsuits. But this doesn’t mean lawsuits will go away. Automation and virtualization.