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Judge Rejects SAD Scheme Joinder–Toyota v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

Toyota brought a SAD Scheme case against 103 defendants before Judge Daniel in the Northern District of Illinois. If these justifications sound familiar, it’s because these are the generic rotely-made defendant-unspecific allegations that are copied and pasted into most SAD Scheme complaints. Seriously, Toyota? Do better).

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds that Remote Pretrial Hearings May Be Necessary to Comply With SAFE-T Act

Legal Tech Monitor

The Illinois Supreme Court has officially found that operational challenges in Illinois circuit courts will necessitate remote pretrial hearings to comply with the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act, according to an Order issued in late August. Read the order here.

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JusticeText Raises $2.2M Seed Round to Advance Its Mission of Building Police Accountability

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JusticeText , a three-year-old startup that makes it easier for public defenders in criminal cases to review body cam and other video footage, has raised a seed round of $2.2 They discovered that the explosion in the quantity of body cam footage and video evidence was overwhelming public defenders and worsening backlogs in criminal cases.

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

Generative AI has transformed how people around the world work; how they create; and what they see, hear, and watch online. Although plaintiffs have been dealt some setbacks, they have responded by bringing new legal claims against a broader class of defendants, making clear that there is no end in sight to these disputes.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

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They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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Intro to Cybersecurity for Lawyers: Unlocking Your Cyber Sense

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Defending against hackers is not optional; it’s a requirement. It seems every day we hear about another cyber-attack data breach or company getting hacked. Cyber-attacks are becoming so common now that we’re starting to become desensitized to hearing about them. So let’s learn some basic defense techniques. So, what’s going on?

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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