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Marking the Retirement of Jerry Larkin, Who Led the ARDC With Exceptional Foresight, Integrity, and ‘Irish Wit’

Legal Tech Monitor

Milestone case law in Illinois professional responsibility for lawyers After joining the ARDC as staff counsel, Larkin quickly assumed more responsibility, serving as Senior Counsel, Chief Counsel, Assistant Administrator, and then Deputy Administrator from 1988 until he was appointed Administrator in 2007. Indeed, Althea K.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

For those reasons, I strongly suspect this will not be the last we hear of this case. The legislative history also expressed an intent to retain existing case law on vicarious liability of a principal for the acts of its agents, including independent contractors. Jackson , 2017 WL 5629514, *11 (N.D.

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You Still Need to Put in the Work: Hyperdraft’s Ashley Carlisle and Tony Thai on the AI Hype Cycle (TGIR Ep. 213)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Casetext’s acquisition by Thomson Reuters illustrates the present-day limitations of large language models trained primarily on case law. Greg Lambert 2:49 I hear not all of that was HyperDraft. But really, you know, his original baby since what 2018 2017. It’s been trained on case law. So that’s good.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Eric Goldman

Step Six: 14 days after the Initial Order and payment of the second fee, the CCB issues a Scheduling Order , which includes a timeline for the respondent’s response, pre-discovery conference, discovery, post-discovery conference, written position statements, a hearing, and determination. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017.

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You Still Need to Put in the Work: Hyperdraft’s Ashley Carlisle and Tony Thai on the AI Hype Cycle (TGIR Ep. 213)

Legal Tech Monitor

Casetext’s acquisition by Thomson Reuters illustrates the present-day limitations of large language models trained primarily on case law. Greg Lambert 2:49 I hear not all of that was HyperDraft. But really, you know, his original baby since what 2018 2017. It’s been trained on case law. So that’s good.

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European Data Protection Roundup – August

Debevoise Data Blog

UK High Court dismisses most of the Dixons data breach claim What happened : The UK High Court dismissed various claims against DSG Retail Limited (“DSG”), the owner of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, relating to a 2017 – 2018 data breach where hackers accessed personal data in the company’s systems.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

LawSites

Most legal tech startups make bold declarations about public interest, access to justice and democratizing the law when it suits them. Case law books waiting to be scanned. Harvard would contribute the law books and run the scanning process inside the law library. We also couldn’t keep digitizing the law forever.

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