Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. ” Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Pre/Dicta , a litigation analytics platform that predicts how federal court judges will rule, is expanding to cover new motion types and also to predict litigation timelines. It will also now predict timelines for key litigation events. Pre/Dicta founder Dan Rabinowitz calls it finding their doppelgangers.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In a move that marries a massive database of state litigation data with the generative capabilities of artificial intelligence, Trellis, a legal technology company known for its analytics tools and extensive collection of state trial court records, today released Trellis AI, a new set of generative AI tools aimed at simplifying litigation tasks.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

McDermott, represented by the Sanders Law Group, sued KMC for copyright infringement. The defendant conceded summary judgment on liability, and the court held a trial on damages. This post covers the court’s ruling following the damages trial. The court runs through multiple considerations: Defendant’s state of mind.

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Legal IT Professionals

MAY 14, 2025

Trellis, the leading provider of trial court data and insights, has partnered with international labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips to integrate its generative AI built for trial court litigation, Trellis AI, into the firms daily case alerts.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Yesterday, I attended the Harvard Law AI Summit organized by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School. Armed with AI, pro se litigants could overwhelm the courts, so the courts need to be prepared to respond in kind. Even as law firms adopt AI, they are finding implementation to be a challenge.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JULY 10, 2025

Jansson is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Gutierrez of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Erica earned her law degree summa cum laude from Southwestern Law School, where she has also worked as an adjunct professor, teaching appellate litigation.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The key is crafting you patent not only for breadth, but with an eye toward litigation. The goal is for competitors to look at your patent and decide they would rather stay out of your market or pay you a licensing fee than try to fight your patent in court. This involves lawsuits, settlements, and sometimes courtroom battles.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 19, 2024

On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases. Of several that I spoke to before and after my talk, they were proud of their courtroom skills […]

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 29, 2025

Amazon , where Xiaohua Huang, a pro se litigant, attempted to enforce his patents against Amazon. The court ultimately dismissed his case, citing his persistent failures to address these issues. The court ultimately dismissed his case, citing his persistent failures to address these issues.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2025

” The plaintiffs brought a pre-enforcement challenge to the law, but the court denies a preliminary injunction. The court explains: Deepfakes are image, audio, or video files that mimic real or nonexistent people saying and doing things that never happened. The court does realize the overlap here, right?

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In my last post , I discussed how evolving technology will continue to influence our relationships and thus, impact family law. However, unlike phone calls, text messages leave a written record that can later be reviewed, and, in some cases, used as evidence in court. This is often the case in family law matters.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In addition to educating the public and helping develop policies, the agency can bring legal actions against people or businesses that have allegedly violated consumer protection laws. The Consumer Protection Law Center at Justia provides more details about how the FTC helps protect consumers from deceptive and unfair business practices.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In other words… plaintiffs are once again arguing that deploying biometric-based age authentication violates privacy law. (I Note: some laws, like Australia, ban authenticators from using government IDs for authentication purposes, leaving few remaining viable options other than face scans). See Kuklinski v.Binance ).

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. Showing Substantial Similarity of Generative AI Outputs.

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Legal Expert Connections

JULY 6, 2025

If you’re the managing partner or practice chair for a business litigation law practice, your role extends far beyond the courtroom; you are also the strategic architect of your firm’s growth. In today’s hyper-competitive legal industry, that means leading a smart, targeted commercial litigation marketing effort.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a world where most information is easy to come by, sometimes important and crucial information, such as laws and the legal resources surrounding them, are restricted from those who need it most. Keep watch as Tim guides you through the best sources for free legal research! More Questions?

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Clio

JUNE 5, 2025

A trial is the dramatic apex of the litigation process. A trial preparation checklist can help you and your litigation team stay on track. A trial preparation checklist can help you and your litigation team stay on track. Another aspect of trial preparation is dealing with opposing counsel and the court prior to trial.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Some people also may find it a hassle to comply with the strict requirements under state law for starting and operating a corporation. Advantages include tax benefits and a court system with special expertise in corporate issues. In states where theyre more often allowed, courts will look at whether theyre reasonable.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the main court for resolving patent issues) issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. The Court’s Analysis Applying the two-step framework from Alice Corp. Brett Trout On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Fox Corp. (No.

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Brett Trout

JUNE 24, 2025

Brett Trout A federal court in San Francisco just handed down a ruling that is shaking up authors and AI users alike. Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, did not break the law by training its models on copyrighted books—at least not when it comes to how the books were used. copyright law.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 17, 2025

Even for smaller cases, where the damages are less than $1 million, the patent litigation costs average $700,000. While a contingent fee arrangement does not cover third-party costs such as expert witness fees, they cover attorneys fees which typically make up the vast majority of litigation costs. What Is a Contingent Fee Structure?

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Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

While AI promises efficiency and cost savings, a recent case in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of including unverified AI-generated content in court filings. The court discovered that eight of those cases did not exist. law to add supporting case law.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In other words, the plaintiffs are trying to use venerable legal doctrines to create a common-law notice-and-takedown scheme. The court dismisses the case entirely with leave to amend. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. This doctrinal move doesn’t work. Strict Products Liability.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 25, 2025

” (Plus, the court notes that while he’s in prison, his job prospects are limited). Despite the dismissal, I view this case as a warning sign of how anti-doxxing statutes will contribute to lots of meritless and problematic litigation. ” It does not go well for him.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

As exciting as generative AI can be, it raises certain questions involving copyright law. Federal statutes do not provide clear answers to these questions, so courts will need to confront them. Already, lawsuits involving AI-generated works have been filed in federal courts from coast to coast. However, the U.S.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Increasingly, however, these technologies present litigation risks under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). In this blog post, we provide an overview of the technologies that plaintiffs most commonly target for CIPA lawsuits and measures that companies can take to mitigate their CIPA litigation risk.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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LawSites

AUGUST 5, 2021

Lightning Law Technologies , a Seattle startup developing software for remote testimony and legal proceedings, has raised a $1 million seed, which the company will use to accelerate development of its platform. The company describes its mission as “to facilitate online justice.”. CEO Alisa Brodkowitz.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her. “We expect that the New York and Texas courts will rule in favor of our clients,” attorney Shah said in her email.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. The product, which is in beta, generates a Microsoft Word document formatted for the federal court system.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JUNE 14, 2025

Despite two years of litigation, the ultimate question of infringement never reached the court. The parties presumably reached an adequate resolution amongst themselves and requested the court to dismiss the case prior to trial. Both products are still on the market today.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In a ruling with potential implications for other pending generative artificial intelligence (AI) copyright cases, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH & West Publishing Corp. ROSS Intelligence Inc. some creative spark.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The court dismisses the lawsuit on several grounds, including res judicata. With respect to the social media services’ status as publishers, the court says: the plaintiff’s RICO claims depend on Twitter and Facebook’s acting as publishers. The post Laura Loomer Loses Litigation (Again)–Loomer v. The complaint.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

Skechers (2016) Nike took Skechers to court for allegedly infringing eight Nike patents, including patents covering the Flyknit technology. The sportswear giant has sued multiple competitors over its Flyknit technology, including: Adidas (2021) Nike accused AdidasPrimeknitshoes of infringing on Flyknit patents. The case was settled in 2022.

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