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Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas

Above the Law - Technology

Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her former company had sued her in federal court in Texas, seeking a declaratory judgment that it had terminated her for cause, and that, as a result, her stock option was also terminated.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “30 Under 30.” As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down. Gavelytics.

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

Above the Law - Technology

In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product. In 2015, they secured $4.3 million in Series A funding.

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It Turns Out You Can’t “Sue the CDA”–Fyk v. US

Eric Goldman

His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. Fyk’s alleged injury has no connection whatsoever to any conduct by the United States, the only defendant in this lawsuit. Fyk’s lawsuit does not accurately describe Section 230.”] This article gives some background on Fyk’s story).

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

Eric Goldman

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. After 5 tries, the Divino LGBTQ lawsuit finally failed last month. And after a remarkable 6 tries, the Newman race-based lawsuit has now failed too ( prior blog post ).

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Litigation Analytics Platform Pre/Dicta Acquires Gavelytics

Legal Tech Blog

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. take place.

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

Legal Tech Monitor

In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product. In 2015, they secured $4.3 million in Series A funding.

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