Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I This ruling isn’t surprising at all, but I was surprised that a lawyer (Mark Ellis O’Brien of Lunenburg, MA) willing to bring this case in the face of the OBVIOUS Section 230 immunity.

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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

Last year, LexisNexis expanded that to add Judicial Brief Analysis , a tool that enabled users to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes. ” The dashboard shows a summary of the analysis of the document and a breakdown of the clauses.

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Legal Tech Monitor

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. DoNotPay , was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff last month after the judge sent it to arbitration in July.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The result is that Judge Alsup’s “careful” approach at the motion to dismiss stage enriched the lawyers and disadvantaged everyone else. Still, don’t overlook the key takeaways. It would have been easy to save the list at the end of each day.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 27, 2023

Last year, LexisNexis expanded that to add Judicial Brief Analysis , a tool that enabled users to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes. The document analysis tab shows alternative clauses relevant to those within the source document.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

Some screenshots depicting the framing (the first image shows Google’s superimposed frame on the right; the second shows what happens if users click on the frame in the first image): If this issue sounds familiar, it’s because framing generated huge discussion in Internet Law circles… 20+ years ago. That lawsuit also failed.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. LinkedIn and Facebook, most notably, have done as much as anyone to shape the law of web scraping. It is easy to criticize this, but this is what smart lawyers and legal teams do.

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Legal Expert Connections

AUGUST 21, 2023

Law firm revenue and profitability for business law firms can erode over time eroding through normal attrition if the managing partner and other lawyers in leadership roles are not focused on a proactive law firm business development program. Law firms with a low profile are losing visibility.

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Legal Expert Connections

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The New York class action law firm Labaton Sucharow recently disclosed that it paid a Houston lawyer over $4 million for a referral fee in the $300 million State Street Bank & Trust case. The lawyer did not contribute to the case in anyway other than acting as a middleman between the law firm and the client.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It’s that every new case related to the law of copyright preemption of contracts leaves lawyers with a potential new set of arguments to defend or argue against with the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And while I think some of the most exciting use cases for this technology is uploading your own documents, right, we were talking before we started about, you know, pointing it at all of the documents in your litigation, the transcripts, the correspondence, discovery, etc. That is at the heart of litigation. So that’s part one.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 12, 2016

Effectively summarizing the work product doctrine, for a document to be protected, it must: “1) be ‘prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial’ and (2) be prepared “by or for another party or by or for that other party’s representative.” Cedar Grove, at *18. Cedar Grove, at *20, footnote 4, emphasis added.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And while I think some of the most exciting use cases for this technology is uploading your own documents, right, we were talking before we started about, you know, pointing it at all of the documents in your litigation, the transcripts, the correspondence, discovery, etc. That is at the heart of litigation. So that’s part one.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To be valid, a will usually must be in writing, created by a testator with legal capacity to make a will, and signed by the testator and witnesses in accordance with state law. Justia provides a 50-state survey on requirements for wills.) How Do You Prove the Validity of a Will? How Are Assets Distributed if There Is No Will?

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Martindale-Avvo

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Most critically, relationship contracts (where used to define respective roles of each party and not deal with purely financial or property matters) are not legally enforceable, whereas prenuptial agreements, provided they meet required criteria usually established by state law, are legally binding contracts which can be enforced by a court.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And when divorce lawyers think about marriage, they often think about prenuptial agreements. Well, a prenup is somewhat like an insurance policy to hopefully protect marrying parties from protracted, expensive and emotional litigation if for some reason the marriage does not work out. To many, February is the month to celebrate love.

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 22, 2023

He has a wide range of experience litigating cases before federal and state courts including claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, Title 59, Section 1983 and related claims, as well as various civil litigation. It’s not enough to comply with just the federal or the state law.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Given its similarity to Illinois’s (BIPA), if the New York BPA is enacted, it would likely make New York home to a flurry of class action litigation. Unlike the Washington law, the proposed Massachusetts and New York bills contain no safe harbors for security uses. Has the company obtained those individuals’ consent?

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Eric Goldman

MAY 2, 2024

Snap litigation. Google,” though that is an unusual case caption because presumably the lawyers representing the plaintiffs know their clients. Salesforce invoked the Fifth Circuit’s Doe v. MySpace ruling, which is binding on this court (whereas the GG decision is not).

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Matt also conducts public records investigations and litigates cases challenging government surveillance. Are there any examples of other states or international examples that this abuse of this data has been more hampered than here in California? I believe every state has a public records law like FOIA, which is the federal law.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 6, 2025

The role of antitrust attorneys The role of lawyers in antitrust tends to fall either in antitrust litigation or in advisory and drafting services during mergers and acquisitions. Attorneys General take action to enforce antitrust laws, bringing suit against alleged violators of the acts.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Some of them contain 50-state surveys that track variations in state laws on a key issue. Family Law Matters involving domestic relations tend to have high stakes, financially and emotionally. They may want to work with a lawyer to maximize their chance of success. armed forces.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Isha Marathe , a tech reporter for American Lawyer Media, joined the podcast to discuss her recent article on how deep fake technology is coming to litigation and whether the legal system is prepared. Regulations, laws and advanced detection technology are still lacking but urgently needed. Are Judges, Juries and Lawyers Ready?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 28, 2023

Isha Marathe , a tech reporter for American Lawyer Media, joined the podcast to discuss her recent article on how deep fake technology is coming to litigation and whether the legal system is prepared. Regulations, laws and advanced detection technology are still lacking but urgently needed. Are Judges, Juries and Lawyers Ready?

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Eric Goldman

MAY 1, 2025

The court breezily rejects each of his state law claims, including the Florida social media censorship claim that relied on an unconstitutional law that’s enjoined. Selected Posts About State Action Claims WeChat Defeats Account Termination LawsuitSun v. Facebook YouTube Still Isnt a State ActorAlbertson v.

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