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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

Percipient

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. 23, 2015) the court observed that responding parties presumptively bear the expense of complying with discovery requests unless the expense is “significant.”

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Don’t Be Late and Ineffective with Litigation Holds

Joshua Gilliland

The City was found to be grossly negligent in issuing and executing its litigation hold for the preservation of email and text messages. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S. The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. City of New York (S.D.N.Y. LEXIS 868, at *1. ” Stinson, at *8.

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Clio Identifies Small Efficiencies That Can Add Up Big for Law Firm Revenue

Legal Tech Monitor

Hourly rates for lawyers have increased 28% since 2016 (from $256 to $327), according to the Legal Trends Report. Additionally, legal professionals on average are working over 25% more cases, recording 35% more billable hours, and billing and collecting over two and a half times more than they did in 2016. The reason?

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Amazon Screws Up Its TOS Amendments (Again)–Jackson v. Amazon

Eric Goldman

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. see, e.g., its problems in the long-running Nicosia litigation).

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Bessemer Venture Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Legal Practice Management Company Litify

LawSites

Bessemer Venture Partners , a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify , a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in the United States.

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Proportionality and Labeling ESI Productions

Joshua Gilliland

22, 2016, Civil Action No. 12-cv-03012-WJM-NYW) 2016 U.S. The Court noted that many of the Defendants’ discovery requests were improper omnibus requests where no effort was made to tailor the discovery request to the issues in the case. Many courts have treated (E)(i) and (E)(ii) as “supplementary rather than alternative.”

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Daniel Farris

Colin S. Levy

Founded in 2016, NRF Transform seeks to reengineer conventional legal services to make them more efficient and effective, while also investing in "new law" services including legal technology, legal operations, compliance, and RegTech. One could credibly make similar statements about e-Discovery tools, e-billing and time tracking, etc.