Law Sites

JULY 9, 2024

Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing in Texas courts.

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JULY 9, 2024

Jay Harrington | When it comes to building your practice, specificity is your roadmap, and action is your vehicle. The Specificity Funnel gives you both. The post The Specificity Funnel: From Ambition to Action appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Law Sites

JULY 9, 2024

A cardiologist with a background in medical technology, computer science and artificial intelligence has launched a product for legal professionals and physician expert witnesses that targets the tedious task of reviewing and analyzing thousands of pages of medical records.

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E-Discovery LLC

JULY 9, 2024

I have come across cases in which a Court’s law clerk conducted an informal conference with parties to resolve a discovery dispute. For example, in Hipschman v. County of San Diego , 2024 WL 3206909 (S.D. Cal. June 26, 2024), counsel “ participated in an informal discovery conference with the undersigned’s Judicial Law Clerk regarding the dispute. ” [emphasis added].

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Law Sites

JULY 9, 2024

Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief, was inspired to start the company based on her own experiences as a litigator and appellate advocate.

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E-Discovery LLC

JULY 9, 2024

The purpose of a privilege log is to provide sufficient information for the recipient of the log to determine whether the withheld information is, at least on its face, privileged. In short: “Trust, but verify.” See, e.g., Privilege Logs: New Techniques to Achieve Proportionality – The “Certification Log” (Mar. 4, 2024); How Much Detail is Enough in a Privilege Log?

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Complex Discovery

JULY 9, 2024

Editor’s Note: Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, is entangled in a significant dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This case, rooted in Coinbase’s demand for access to SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s private communications, has far-reaching implications for the future of digital asset regulation.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 9, 2024

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed the remaining counts in Judge Pauline Newman’s challenge to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Chief Judge Kimberly Moore’s inquiry into her fitness to continue serving as a federal appellate judge. The decision sets the stage for an appeal, which Newman’s lawyer told IPWatchdog will happen “within days, not weeks.

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The Marshall Project

JULY 9, 2024

After a teen’s murder, city officials hope a curfew and youth centers will get kids off the street. Young people are skeptical.

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Civil Litigation Brief

JULY 9, 2024

The judgment of Mr Justice Constable sitting with Senior Costs Judge Saker in Pan NOx Emissions Litigations [2024] EWHC 1728 (KB) contains much that is of interest to litigators. The judges budgeted a case where the claimants sought over £342.

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Litigation

IP Watchdog

JULY 9, 2024

“Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead”—the Witch being the extraordinary agency overreach into law that Congress never passed, emboldened by the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case of Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837, and enabled by a weakened judiciary told to give agency action presumptive deference on the construction and application of federal statutes.

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E-Discovery Team

JULY 9, 2024

I continue to be troubled about AI Sycophantism. What is that? The tendency of generative AI to agree with the user, to respond in a way that is aligned with the user’s biases, errors and hallucinations.

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Legal Dive

JULY 9, 2024

The chance of losing data to a breach rises in tandem with the number of channels — like email and file sharing — that an organization uses.

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Your Trial Message

JULY 9, 2024

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: It has become more commonplace to hear talk about a future of litigation without peremptory strikes. After all, Arizona in 2022 was the first state to eliminate strikes in all cases, and it may not be the last.

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Legal Dive

JULY 9, 2024

Lawyers hope a court-approved extension of the claims filing deadline will provide time for resolution of conflicts and allow other business owners to file new claims in the interchange fee case.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

The final week of June was a big one for those who have been following what seems to be a constriction of federal agency power under Chief Justice Roberts. A decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy came on Thursday, June 27 followed by the Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo just the day after, on Friday, June 28.

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Legal IT Insider

JULY 9, 2024

Legaltech Hub (LTH), a global directory of legal technology solutions and services, has acquired Georgia-headquartered consultancy Legal Tech Consultants (LTC), with founder Cheryl Wilson Griffin joining LTH as vice president […] The post Legaltech Hub acquires Legal Tech Consultants appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

Further strengthening its premier global investigations and white-collar defense practice, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that former federal prosecutor and accomplished trial lawyer Renato Mariotti has joined the firm as a partner in Chicago.

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Legal Dive

JULY 9, 2024

The federal jury’s ‘speculation and guesswork’ on damages plus mistakes by the court require a new trial, the league argues.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

Milbank LLP is pleased to announce the addition of former senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) official Joshua (Josh) Sterling as a partner in Washington, DC. Mr. Sterling will guide the growth of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration and Derivatives practice areas, as well as strengthen the White Collar Defense & Investigations practice.

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Legal IT Insider

JULY 9, 2024

European gen AI startup Leya and UK corporate law knowledge provider FromCounsel have entered a partnership to bring FromCounsel’s knowledge content directly into Leya’s workspace. The closed pilot launches on […] The post Leya and FromCounsel launch knowledge sharing pilot with 12 law firms appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

A federal court appeal by two whistleblowers who helped the Securities and Exchange Commission recover $1 billion for defrauded investors, only to be blocked from collecting what would have been a record award, now shapes up as a test of the program’s future thanks to the Supreme Court. The timing couldn’t be better for forensic accountant John McPherson and investor John Barr to argue Tuesday before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Practice of Law

JULY 9, 2024

On June 21, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in United States v Rahimi. This case sets an important precedent in the often contested area of gun control and Second Amendment rights. Rahimi had a restraining order against him for assaulting his child's mother, shooting a gun, and threatening to kill her if she told anyone. He was not allowed to have a gun due to his past criminal record.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

These actions also will likely fall to juries. With the utmost respect to the average US juror, most don’t understand the complexities of federal securities laws. Take, for example, the case filed against Elon Musk for market manipulation in 2018, when he claimed he had secured the funding to take Tesla private. The SEC filed a complaint in federal court, not with an ALJ, alleging Musk’s statements violated Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act covering “employment of manipulative and decept

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Practice of Law

JULY 9, 2024

One of fifteen lawsuits against companies that make a distribute video games has just been dismissed for having a “straw” plaintiff. The caretaker of a teenage boy seems to have made up some of the facts of her case against the game companies, and that was a no-go in court. Will the other cases survive? A ‘World-wide Epidemic’ Cynthia Jimenez lives in Southern Illinois, where she has been taking care of her now-14-year-old grandson, who the court refers to as I.C. to preserve his anonymity.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

In any event, well-advised companies seeking to avoid similar conflicts with the agency and trying to maintain adequate and appropriate cybersecurity reporting processes and procedures will want to review the agency’s cease and desist order carefully. In describing the ways in which the agency contends that RRD’s controls were inadequate, the agency inferentially suggests ways that companies’ internal reporting procedures can be improved in order to ensure that incident alerts are elevated and a

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

Officials said they are modeling the new program after similar ones in two other federal agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The SEC received 18,000 tips in fiscal 2023, up nearly 50 percent from a year earlier, and paid a record $600 million to 68 whistleblowers. The CFTC received 1,530 tips and paid seven whistleblowers a total of $16 million last year.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Brian Glennon as a partner in its Litigation Practice Group in Los Angeles. As an experienced trial lawyer, Brian brings a wealth of knowledge in complex commercial litigation, including securities fraud class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

From deference to respect What replaces Chevron deference is for “courts to do their ordinary job” of determining the “best reading” of the statute using all the traditional tools of statutory interpretation at their disposal. “Due respect” to an agency’s view remains one such tool. Reviewing courts should look to pre-Chevron approaches to agency cases, especially the Supreme Court’s 1944 opinion Skidmore v.

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Securities Docket

JULY 9, 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has officially adopted a platform that would seek to support cryptocurrency innovation, according to the document released Monday by the Republican National Committee. The platform is meant to lay out the party’s priorities as presumptive presidential nominee Trump and Republican congressional candidates head into the November election, and it reflects Trump and other GOP politicians’ rising interest in digital assets. “Rep

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