Eric Goldman

JANUARY 23, 2024

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. — Two recent cases illustrate the extent to which courts today are willing to enforce this regime. Didion (2008) 160 Cal.App.4th Many people think this is true.

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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

Koerner Endowed Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School [See part 1 about defendant opt-outs and part 2 about defendant defaults.] Consistent with the CCB’s small claims court ethos, the case involved both a pro se claimant and respondent. The CCB filing cost is about $300 less than federal court.

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Lawmatics

APRIL 6, 2023

By utilizing law firm marketing automation. No lawyer would say they worked hard, took out student loans, and sacrificed for years to put themselves through law school, only to fill their days performing manual data entry, copying and pasting to create documents, and developing marketing campaigns. What is Legal Automation?

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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. We have weathered economic downturns, empowered legal professionals to meet evolving client demands, and made running a law firm easier than ever imagined.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

As discussed Wednesday in part one of this three-part series, these posts are a collection of reflections on the 10th anniversary of the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. ReInvent Law was shocking.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Lawyers passionate about defending their clients and showcasing their work frequently document their thoughts and provide firm updates in a law firm blog. The Florida Supreme Court also rejected his First Amendment claims and in the end, the attorney agreed to a public reprimand and a $1,250 fine.

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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. 1215 AD: The Magna Carta comes into force in England.

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The Barrister

APRIL 14, 2023

This book found in our law library provides an overview of the 8 “secret” tips to enhance your performance in law school. 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. Whitebread KF 283.W48

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 10, 2023

As discussed Wednesday in part one of this three-part series, these posts are a collection of reflections on the 10th anniversary of the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. ReInvent Law was shocking.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

And what’s a company to do right now, with facial recognition opportunities presenting themselves today while the law remains a moving target? In this Part 1, we lay out the current laws governing facial recognition in the United States. In Part 2, we assess where the law is headed and offer some practical risk-reduction strategies.

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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 is its purpose and how do you see it fitting into the legal ecosystem?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Seeber shares the origin story of Level Legal, starting from its humble beginnings in 2009 in East Texas, evolving from a document review team within a law firm to a full-service eDiscovery and forensics company based in Dallas. So that was why he said, Would you like to practice law with me? That’d be nice. Did I say that?

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Clio

MAY 22, 2024

It mandates independence, confidentiality, adherence to the law, and dignified conduct to maintain public trust. 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. Heading to court?

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

As I noted then, the company boasted a notable roster of seed investors, including Mark Britton , the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner , legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary ; and Bill Neukom , longtime Microsoft general counsel. Practicing law is her second career. Falcon is no newbie to tech.

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Legally Speaking

JANUARY 21, 2023

About Clio Clio is a legal practice management software that is designed to help law firms, solo practitioners, and legal departments manage their practice and client relationships. Clio was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. How to create a law firm marketing strategy.

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Lawmatics

JUNE 15, 2023

While initially, you may dream of practicing law in a thriving metropolitan setting with plenty of lucrative opportunities, you may start to consider the alternative of opening a law practice in a smaller community. Do you dream of a glitzy big law career in a New York City law firm?

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 16, 2023

There is definitely demand for the AI Insider Program with over 3,000 law firms already signed up. He also sees opportunities to use the tools to help pro se litigants and courts. And I think generative AI is probably the single biggest technology development that seems perfectly aligned with law firms and the way law firms work.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Seeber shares the origin story of Level Legal, starting from its humble beginnings in 2009 in East Texas, evolving from a document review team within a law firm to a full-service eDiscovery and forensics company based in Dallas. So that was why he said, Would you like to practice law with me? That’d be nice. Did I say 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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lennyesq

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Tirana Faculty of Law, AL Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated at a political convention Saturday that the country will temporarily suspend the right to apply for asylum. Emanuel Xhindi | U. Articles 2 and 3 of the convention guarantee the right to life and protection from torture.

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MatterSuite

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Supreme Court Has the Final Say on Matters Shaping the Nation, But the Path There Isn’t Always Easy. Even the legal systems and structures devised to uphold law and order at times pave the way to outcomes that are confusing at best, but such decisions serve an important role within the overall framework of the law.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2024

Texas passed a law ( HB 1181 ) requiring pornographic websites to age-authenticate all users and then prevent minors from accessing online porn. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Congress passed functionally identical laws twice: the CDA in 1996 and the COPA in 1998. Both laws were struck down as unconstitutional.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 16, 2024

I’m pleased to announce the 2024 edition (15th edition) of my Internet Law casebook, Internet Law: Cases & Materials. Blockbuster with the North Carolina Supreme Court decision in Canteen v. I added a summary of contributory and vicarious copyright law principles from the Frontier Communications case. The Harris v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rare case analyzing Section 230’s intersection with admiralty law. 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. The case involves GetMyBoat, an online marketplace for boat rentals.

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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. The reference makes no sense because, if anything, there is too much law governing the Internet, not too little. April 3, 2008) Milo v. Roommates.Com, LLC , 521 F.3d 3d 210 (Tex.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

However, FOSTA was not designed as an anti-CSAM law, so the plaintiffs’ claims don’t really fit the legal doctrine. 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. Both parties appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

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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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Law Technology Today

APRIL 18, 2023

“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. Law schools have a duty to maintain a rigorous program of legal education and enable students to develop their professional identity. Joseph Lawson, Law Library Director at the Harris County Robert W.

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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

In response to a facial constitutional challenge to FOSTA, the DC Circuit upheld the law after making several narrowing constructions. The remaining ambiguity over its scope chills and inhibits socially beneficial and completely legal behavior, but the law doesn’t help reduce illegal behavior. Taamneh case. Reddit, Inc. ,

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 27, 2023

There will be blood spilled (figuratively speaking) because of GPT’s clash with copyright law . Personally, I believe that copyright law is now a source of so many insidious problems that it needs to be reigned in. GPT is chemotherapy for copyright law. copyright law. Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster : During the 2008 U.S.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

Readers with good memories will recall that I have blogged several other cases against Salesforce with similar allegations, with mixed results in court. Salesforce decision closely, the court concludes that Salesforce doesn’t qualify for Section 230 immunity in the FOSTA case. Salesforce invoked the Fifth Circuit’s Doe v.

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Martindale-Avvo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” September 25th is the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims , and it’s common knowledge in the field that many criminal justice cases are brought to court in September. For instance, in the summer of 2008, September had the highest amount of murders in New York City: a whopping 52 in the city alone.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 9, 2024

The court responds: “Doe’s breeding ground theory essentially seeks to hold Meta liable for failing to remove traffickers’ grooming messages and posts advertising their victims for sex.” Most FOSTA opinions are lengthy, but this one was short because the law was quite clear. ” Cite to Lemmon v.

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The Barrister

APRIL 24, 2024

Each state has its own set of laws and regulations that govern the practice. The law allows terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less to request and receive a prescription for medication to end their lives. Washington legalized physician-assisted suicide through a voter-approved initiative in 2008.

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