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Legal Hold 101: Everything You Need to Know

MatterSuite

Anything that could help or hurt your case is covered in this process, including emails, cloud documents, texts, call logs, shared folders, and paper records. Sanctions or harm to one’s legal reputation may follow failure to issue a legal hold. When handled carefully, they protect your position and keep disputes manageable.

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Cyber Whistleblower Leads to DOJ Civil Settlement

Debevoise Data Blog

The complaint was brought under the FCA’s qui tam provisions, whereby a private citizen can bring a lawsuit on behalf of the government. The underlying failures alleged in the settlement occurred between 2018 and 2023. The settlement also underscores the need to provide a channel for personnel to escalate perceived compliance failures.

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Preliminary Copyright Office Guidance on Fair Use and AI Provides Some Answers, But Questions Remain

Debevoise Data Blog

There are dozens of cases pending against AI developers stemming from their use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models. In response, developers have uniformly asserted that such use is a fair use. The new Registrar could revise the report, or never make it official in any form. Many uses, however, will fall somewhere in between. [2]

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In Case of ‘Real Lawyers Against A Robot Lawyer,’ Federal Court Dismisses Law Firm’s Suit Against DoNotPay for Unauthorized Law Practice

Above the Law - Technology

The firm based its lawsuit on DoNotPay’s claims that it allows consumers to “[f]ight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button,” even though it is not licensed to practice law. ” Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. GitHub, Inc.

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In Case of ‘Real Lawyers Against A Robot Lawyer,’ Federal Court Dismisses Law Firm’s Suit Against DoNotPay for Unauthorized Law Practice

Legal Tech Monitor

The firm based its lawsuit on DoNotPay’s claims that it allows consumers to “[f]ight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button,” even though it is not licensed to practice law. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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Why is data management important for lawyers?

Legodesk

This can include information on clients, cases, documents, and more. These programs can help lawyers to keep track of important information, find relevant documents quickly, and share data with other members of their team. Read Also – Advantages of a Cloud-based Legal Document Management Software What is data management?

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