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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

Above the Law - Technology

“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. federal courts.

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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See

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In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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Court Doesn’t Expect YouTube to Moderate Content Perfectly–Newman v. Google

Eric Goldman

But courts don’t always use facts like that for petard-hoisting, instead grounding their rulings in legal doctrines and admissible evidence. As the Newman court summarized, “this case has shed its intentional discrimination and constitutional claims, becoming—first and foremost—a breach of contract dispute.”

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Law Librarians Name Casetext Compose New Product Of The Year

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Compose launched with the ability to create core federal court procedural and discovery motions. In 2017, the award went to CARA , another first-of-its-kind product that analyzes briefs to find relevant cases they omit. It later expanded to add employment law briefs and product liability briefs. Second Product Award.

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The Competition Between Temu and Shein Moves Into a Courtroom–Whaleco v. Shein

Eric Goldman

The court refuses Temu’s preliminary injunction request. This opinion suggests this judge would have zero interest in enjoining rightsowners from this practice. Day to Day Imports * Court Mistakenly Thinks Copyright Owners Have a Duty to Police InfringementSunny Factory v. Case Citation : Whaleco Inc. Alper Automotive v.

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Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow

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26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , the company’s former VP of sales and litigation counsel. We invented the category of state court analytics.

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Trying Out My Trial Skills In A New Virtual Reality Courtroom

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The balding, stern-faced judge stares down at me from his bench, framed by flags to either side of him, a judicial seal on the wall behind him. It is just the judge, the jury and me. May it please the court,” I begin. The judge nods, but it looks like a nod of impatience, not of listening. “Ok, we are on the record.

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