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Legal Hold 101: Everything You Need to Know

MatterSuite

When litigation seems likely, the first critical step is preserving data. A legal hold, or litigation hold, requires organizations to preserve relevant data during or ahead of legal proceedings. Sanctions or harm to one’s legal reputation may follow failure to issue a legal hold. Legal holds aren’t optional.

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Custodian Interviews: Critical to Defensible eDiscovery in the Age of Modern Communications

CloudNine

Start With a Clear Purpose Custodian interviews serve multiple critical purposes in litigation, including: Identify where relevant data lives, including on personal devices or unofficial shadow IT appsi.e., Failure to identify a source through interviews could result in data loss.

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Why Legal Matter Management Is No Longer Optional for In-House Teams?

MatterSuite

Rising regulatory demands, growing litigation risks , and the need for cost efficiency make legal matter management a critical function, not just an optional tool. All your affairs in one place, with automatic reminders and safe document sharing. Legal matter management is similar to a lawyer and law firm’s filing system.

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The Importance of Legal Docketing for Law Firms Explained

Clio

For instance, it is most commonly used in both civil and criminal litigation for tracking court appearances, deadlines, and other time constraints. For any legal matter, firms can also generate deadlines and events based on documents received from the court or opposing counsel. Ready to streamline your legal docketing process?

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

Debevoise Data Blog

To date, despite years of litigation, those cases have resulted in just one opinion: a District of Delaware order that arose outside of the generative AI context and rejected the fair use defense as a matter of law. In response, developers have uniformly asserted that such use is a fair use.

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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

“While the complaint asserts that DNP has provided poor customer service at times, leading to adverse legal consequences for DNP’s customers, the complaint fails to cite any instance where DNP’s failures were imputed to MK specifically or lawyers generally.” District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

After one of the clients notified him of the dismissal, the alarmed attorney filed a motion to reconsider and reinstate the case, attributing his failure to respond in a timely manner to “new filtering rules in his email inbox,” which moved the dismissal order to his junk mail folder. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014.

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