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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Privacy Lawyers May Be Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. I’ve instead made Bluesky my primary social media home. FOLLOW ME THERE! in press).

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

Just 28 years old, he had won accolades as an entrepreneur, first starting California Legal Pros, a company that marketed various legal services to both consumers and lawyers, then QuickLegal, a service that provided on-demand legal advice to consumers, and then QuickLegal Practice Management, a cloud practice management platform for lawyers.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Do lawyers return to the office or not? 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.). Do courts fully reopen or not? Do legal conferences return live or not?

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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How to Increase Law Firm Profitability

Centerbase

Profits per equity partner are down for the first time since 2009. (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.) Client payments and realization rates are down too.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

It’s that every new case related to the law of copyright preemption of contracts leaves lawyers with a potential new set of arguments to defend or argue against with the law of copyright preemption. 2009) (holding that a contract was not preempted by copyright). The Internet is awash in lawsuits related to this collection of data.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

Do lawyers return to the office or not? 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.). Do courts fully reopen or not? Do legal conferences return live or not?