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Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit Fails…Despite 236 Potentially Confused Customers–Lerner & Rowe v. Brown Engstrand

Eric Goldman

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 defense team included lawyers from Jaburg & Wilk, Wilenchik & Bartness, and the Law Office of Robert W Shely).

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More on Law Firms and Competitive Keyword Ads–Nicolet Law v. Bye, Goff

Eric Goldman

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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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?

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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

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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.