Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

The year 2008 saw the launches of the first two cloud-based law practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, followed in 2009 by the launch of MyCase. Yet even though the company is no longer operating, it continues to fight the lawsuit, with its defense and counterclaims funded by insurance coverage. LexisNexis Firm Manager.

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APRIL 1, 2024

On June 30th, 2008, four years after images of torture at Abu Ghraib horrified people all over the world, a group of victims filed suit against CACI, the Virginia-based private security company hired by the U.S. post-9/11 torture will get their day in court. government to conduct interrogations at the prison.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2023

Some possible reasons why: The 2008 en banc ruling functionally became dicta in 2012 when the Ninth Circuit held that Roommates.com never touched illegal content at all. The court responds that Facebook inferred other protected attributes through data-mining. However, it has not benefited plaintiffs as much as I initially expected.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MAY 16, 2023

He also sees opportunities to use the tools to help pro se litigants and courts. And so it’s I think it’s just a matter of, you know, we started seriously talking about killing the billable hour in 2008. And how do you advance things like access to legal services through the public through the courts and other public organizations?

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 23, 2024

And even though the creators of popular services know, and you know, and I know, and the Supreme Court knows , and every judge that decides every opinion on these issues knows, that no one is reading these documents, the legal system has collectively decided this system sufficient to bind everyone to a legal agreement. . See Bruni v.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Table of contents What Are Lawyer Flat Fees? The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? Are Fees Refundable? What Are Lawyer Flat Fees?

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Joshua Gilliland

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Producing Party agreed to produce the ESI during a teleconference and a Court ordered was then entered. The Producing Party sought a modification of the Court order to not include metadata, claiming the Requesting Party did not originally request the associated metadata. The Court AGREED with the Producing Party. McSparran v.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

Consistent with the CCB’s small claims court ethos, the case involved both a pro se claimant and respondent. Eric asked me: how would this have been different if the claimant had pursued the traditional route of suing in federal court? The CCB filing cost is about $300 less than federal court. Here’s the odd part.

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Clio

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Since our founding in 2008, Clio has grown exponentially, thanks to the innovative legal professionals who use our software every day. Steno works with the industry’s top certified stenographic court reporters to provide high-quality, accurate, real-time court transcripts.

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The Barrister

OCTOBER 23, 2023

After the first year, I wanted to compete to join a law journal and Moot Court. I joined Resolved and Moot Court. Moot Court implemented a new required course for brief writing and oral argument. Law Library Research Fellow Resolved Law Journal Member Moot Court Advocacy Board Member Charleston School of Law

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Clio

MARCH 22, 2023

Established in 2008, the annual International Be Kind to Lawyers Day falls on the second Tuesday of April (April 11, 2023). As a small token of appreciation, Steve Hughes , a renowned communications expert and speaking coach, created International Be Kind To Lawyers Day in 2008. 1844 AD: Macon B.

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Clio

MAY 22, 2024

While judges in state courts have been guided by codes of conduct going back over one hundred years, not every federal court in the United States has been operating under a code until recently. Federal judges at the district and circuit courts have been bound by the Code of Conduct for United States Judges since 1973.

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Colin S. Levy

MARCH 7, 2023

Josh Blandi is the CEO and Co-Founder of UniCourt , a SaaS offering using machine learning to disrupt the way court data is organized, accessed, and used. In 2008, I started my first company, CountryWide Debt Relief. What were some of the biggest lessons you learned and why?

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Court stated that litigation hold was not effectively communicated and the officers listed in the City’s initial disclosures did not acknowledge receiving the hold notice. In all, the Court noted a total of fewer than 25 emails produced from key players. The Court found that the City’s litigation hold was both late and ineffective.

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

After graduating from South Texas College of Law in 2008 at the top of her class, her first job was as a briefing attorney at the Texas First Court of Appeals, where she was first exposed to the problem of the voluminous records appeals often entail. “I A subsequent seed round raised the total investment in the company to $3.5

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The Barrister

APRIL 14, 2023

Law Library Research Fellow Student Ambassador Associate Justice of External Competitions, Moot Court Executive Board Juris Doctor Candidate, May 2024 Charleston School of Law The book addresses problem that almost every law student can relate to- time management, organization, and setting up a winning essay answer during an exam.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One example cited in the article was in regard to a 2008 case where a Florida defense attorney was unhappy about a judge’s handling of a case and publicly complained on his blog about perceived inappropriate behavior. a national legal marketing agency, and author of the book Courting Your Clients.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I imagine, you know, in 2008 2009, that because storing data was much cheaper, people started storing things they shouldn’t have been. Yeah, a lot of courts there are a lot of there’s just a lot of adoption that’s required for something like that. We’ve hopefully you’ve learned from that.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2008, s he co-founded Valorem Law Group, which became nationally known as a pioneer in the alternative fee arrangement movement. Nicole Nehama Auerbach, Vice President, Elevate Nicole Auerbach has made her mark as an innovator in the legal industry — twice.

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Lawmatics

APRIL 6, 2023

A "robot" lawyer powered by artificial intelligence was set to be the first of its kind to help a defendant contest a traffic ticket in court last month. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, tweeted that his company "is postponing our court case and sticking to consumer rights." Here are some potential legal document management solutions.

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Legally Speaking

JANUARY 21, 2023

Clio also offers collaboration tools that allow multiple members of a legal team to work together, as well as integrations with other legal-specific technologies such as court rules and e-filing. Clio was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2008, s he co-founded Valorem Law Group, which became nationally known as a pioneer in the alternative fee arrangement movement. Nicole Nehama Auerbach, Vice President, Elevate Nicole Auerbach has made her mark as an innovator in the legal industry — twice.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Compensatory damages or damages between $200 and $1,000 are authorized for each unlawful sale, as are reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs. a) Illinois The first biometric privacy law in the United States was BIPA, which became effective in 2008. See Vance v. Amazon.com Inc. , C20-1084JLR, 2021 WL 1401633, at *2 (W.D.

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Lawmatics

JUNE 15, 2023

The governor signed the Massachusetts Life and Sciences Act in 2008 which promised $1 billion for the development of the biotech industry, making Massachusetts one of the top places for the biotech industry. Are you interested in specializing in biotech and education law opportunities? It is also home to Florida State University.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 16, 2023

He also sees opportunities to use the tools to help pro se litigants and courts. And so it’s I think it’s just a matter of, you know, we started seriously talking about killing the billable hour in 2008. And how do you advance things like access to legal services through the public through the courts and other public organizations?

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I imagine, you know, in 2008 2009, that because storing data was much cheaper, people started storing things they shouldn’t have been. Yeah, a lot of courts there are a lot of there’s just a lot of adoption that’s required for something like that. We’ve hopefully you’ve learned from that.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2024

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2024

But to the Texas legislature, directly-on-point adverse Supreme Court precedent just an invitation to further negotiations. As my grandma might have said, if you don’t ask the Supreme Court to overturn their long-standing prevailing precedent, the answer is always no. Both laws were struck down as unconstitutional.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 16, 2024

Blockbuster with the North Carolina Supreme Court decision in Canteen v. That left the majority’s discussion on the constitutionality of content moderation, which provides a modern Supreme Court take regarding the tsunami of censorship laws heading for the Supreme Court. I replaced Harris v. The Harris v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Yet, remarkably, the court doesn’t cite the HomeAway case at all. The court cites to L.H. As usual, I cringe at the court’s “conduit” language. As the court make clear, GMB undertakes a variety of trust and safety efforts, so it’s not a typical communications “conduit.”

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2021, the court dismissed the non-FOSTA claims but did not dismiss the FOSTA claim. Reddit cert petition was pending before the Supreme Court. A few weeks later, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in the Reddit case). Both parties appealed to the Ninth Circuit. ” That’s exactly what happens on remand.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

” My post tried to translate this statement: Underneath this anodyne conclusion, the court is impliedly making two key points: (1) users’ activities do not contribute to evaluating the defendant’s 1591 exposure, and (2) the applicable scienter to get around 230 is 1591’s “actual knowledge” requirement.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2023

I hope this post makes clear why I get so irritated whenever I see the phrases referenced in a court opinion or invoked by a grandstanding politician. April 3, 2008) Milo v. Roommates.Com, LLC , 521 F.3d 3d 1157 (9th Cir. Martin , 311 S.W.3d 3d 210 (Tex. April 29, 2010) Hill v. StubHub , Inc., 2011 WL 1675043 (N.C. Superior Ct.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2023

The court treats this as a surprisingly easy Section 230 case and dismisses the case. Twitter , the court disagrees: Unlike in Lemmon and Roommates.com , the harm Plaintiffs allege here doesn’t flow from a design defect. ” The plaintiffs also sued Google and Apple for carrying Snap in their app stores. Next stop: the 9th Circuit.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 26, 2024

On remand, the court dismisses the remaining defendants primarily due to Section 230, with leave to amend. The court summarizes the facts: Plaintiff alleges she was trafficked as a minor and her traffickers filmed her while she was engaged in sex acts. . The court says Section 230 preempts it in this case. The Lemmon v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 23, 2023

Analogous to how narrowing interpretations rendered the SAVE Act irrelevant (FOSTA’s precursor), the court’s interpretations decrease the odds that the government will bring FOSTA-based prosecutions. ” Later, the court recapitulates: “FOSTA does not criminalize promoting prostitution broadly. .”

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