Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions , and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after filing cases that were “completely fabricated.” On March 8, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida suspended attorney Thomas Grant Neusom from practicing in that court for one year, after which he will be eligible to apply for reinstatement.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 15, 2024

If you’re a lawyer or marketing professional charged with marketing your law firm check out these top AI tools for lawyers. The post Top AI Tools for Lawyer Marketers appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Lawmatics

MARCH 14, 2024

The Business Intelligence Group has named Lawmatics a 2024 Best Place to Work award. This recognition honors organizations fostering exceptional employee experiences and driving exceptional performance through vibrant and engaging work environments. “At Lawmatics, we’ve worked hard to cultivate an environment where everyone is empowered to show up as their authentic selves and take ownership of their craft,” said Lawmatics CEO and Co-founder Matt Spiegel.

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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

MARCH 15, 2024

A common defense in medical malpractice cases is to assert the cause of the injury was an unintended outcome following medical judgment regarding acceptable choices between alternative medical judgments. Some states, like Washington, approve a jury instruction on this concept. Washington Pattern Jury Instruction 105.08 “Exercise of Judgment” provides: “A physician is not liable for selecting one of two or more alternative [courses of treatment] [diagnoses] , if, in arriving at the judgment to [f

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Law Sites

MARCH 13, 2024

Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage , the document and email management company. Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven. But after Autonomy gobbled up Interwoven in 2009 and then Hewlett Packard bought Autonomy in 2011, the deal turned into a disaster when allegations that Autonomy had in

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 13, 2024

There’s an old saying, “Law is a jealous mistress.” After two of my own divorces and representing hundreds of divorce clients, I used to joke that I knew many ways to screw up a relationship but not very many ways to make them a success. Now I have a better idea of how lawyers can […] The post Is the Law Ruining Your Relationship? Tips for Being a Better Partner appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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MARCH 15, 2024

In the dynamic and competitive landscape of the legal industry, the best lawyer LinkedIn profiles serve as a testament to how legal professionals can effectively leverage the platform to highlight their expertise, connect with peers, and attract new clients. Among the various social media platforms available, LinkedIn has emerged as a pivotal tool for legal professionals to do exactly that.

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Law Sites

MARCH 12, 2024

The arrival of 2024 brought a new reporting requirement for more than 32 million smaller companies in the United States. The new requirement, which came about as part of the federal Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, means that many companies will now have to report information about their beneficial owners — the individuals who ultimately control the company.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 12, 2024

Erik Mazzone | Next time you are paging through the 17th message in a thread, consider that sometimes, meetings are the right tool for the job. The post That Email Should Have Been a Meeting appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released new guidance to patent examiners on making obviousness rejections. The guidance focuses on post-KSR precedential jurisprudence from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Some of the guidance is fairly mundane, some of it is not. The purpose of this article is to propose a few responses one might use to counter rejections that apply certain problematic aspects of the new guidance.

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Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

By John Patzakis In their excellent publication, 2023 eDiscovery Case Law in Review, Winston and Strawn, LLP, one of the top law firms in the US, highlights the challenges legal and eDiscovery professionals face with modern attachments. Modern attachments, also known as hyperlinks, are URL pointers that link to files or emails stored in another location.

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Law Sites

MARCH 13, 2024

Training kicked off last month in Arizona for a new class of legal advocates who will work at community-based organizations throughout the state to provide free limited-scope legal help to clients in domestic violence and housing matters. The training program, a partnership between the Arizona Supreme Court and Innovation for Justice (i4J), a program jointly housed at the James E.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 14, 2024

Brooke Lively | What makes a law firm attractive to buyers? Exactly the same things that make a firm a joy to own. Focus on these three things. The post What Makes a Law Firm Attractive to Buyers? appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2024

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued a Request for Comments (RFC) that will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow seeking input from the public on how to better incentivize commercialization of innovation, particularly in green and critical or emerging technologies. According to the RFC, the comments received “will be used to evaluate possibilities for amplifying the impact of our current work, and to explore new ways to support the transfer of innovation to the mark

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Destination Articles Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The legal profession is undergoing rapid evolution, and 2024 presents a pivotal year for lawyers and law firms to adapt to new challenges and opportunities. It’s essential to closely examine the factors driving the need for a sharper focus on the crucial elements that enable lawyers to remain competitive and impactful. From the delivery of legal advice to the preparation of law students for their careers, the legal landscape is experiencing significant transformation.

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Law Sites

MARCH 11, 2024

Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. legal system. One is the gaping lack of access to justice. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Reasonable minds can quibble over that number – some say it is exaggerated – but no one doubts or disputes that the legal system falls dramatically short of serving those who need it, not just for those with low inco

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

I'm excited to share that our Tech Team is growing! Please help me welcome abhikhya ashi to Cloud Court, Inc. Abhikhya is our first full-time developer on the team, joining me and Lance Hegland. She will focus on front end development, but in the true spirit of life at a startup, she will also help on a variety of other tasks, including blogging and internal training.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a brief opinion authored by Judge Chen today that rejected Daedalus Blue LLC’s appeal of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding certain claims of its patent on a data management system unpatentable. The PTAB held that U.S. Patent No. 8,671,132 was unpatentable as obvious over combinations of three prior art references: “Gelb”, “Tivoli”, and “Callaghan.

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The Legal Geeks

MARCH 9, 2024

Introduction For most of Naruto, we are shown that the great nations are constantly involved in conflict. Naruto details that the nations have seen at least three Great Ninja Wars, equivalent to our World Wars, and in the final arc the great nations are embroiled in the Fourth Great Ninja War.

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Law Sites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. Proxiio says that it offers customers legal services delivered by a team of skilled lawyers with deep knowledge and experience in areas such as managed review, litigation and investigation, e-discovery, witness preparation, claims evaluation, data subject access requests (DSARs), contracts, and compliance m

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Legally Speaking

MARCH 10, 2024

This episode of The Legally Speaking Podcast shines a spotlight on Venandah Madanhi, a lawyer and social entrepreneur at the forefront of legal innovation and youth empowerment.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2024

Efforts by high-tech companies to undermine both the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023 and the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act ramped up this week, with a joint letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee by a number of tech industry organizations on Monday and a campaign launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday.

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The Legal Geeks

MARCH 14, 2024

Our panels at WonderCon 2024 are brought to you by the Letter G for Godzilla and Ghostbusters! We are thrilled to return for two panels highlighting a new “empire” of law! Check out our schedule below. Friday March 29, 2024 8:00pm – 9:00pm PDT Godzilla Minus Lawyers Lawyers love Kaiju!

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Law Sites

MARCH 12, 2024

Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada. The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Edge for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw Edge UK within weeks.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

In this week’s episode of “The Geek in Review” podcast, co-hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview Michael Bommarito and Jill Bommarito, the CEO and Chief Risk Officer of 273 Ventures, respectively. The couple, who have been together since high school, share their experiences working together in the legal technology space. Michael and Jill discuss the advantages and challenges of working closely together in the same organization.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2024

On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, Judge Pauline Newman celebrated the 40th anniversary of the day she assumed office on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Gene and I were initially invited to join several of her current and former clerks for a surprise lunch with the judge to celebrate. However, after several phone calls and text messages, the plan evolved and, in less than a week's time, a surprise celebration was planned.

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Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

You probably use several legal technology products every day. Maybe you love some, maybe you despise others. Why not share your experiences so that other legal professionals can make better buying decisions? On the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , there are actually two different ways you can contribute reviews. And one way even earns you gift cards!

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Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

Possibly the best deal in legal tech conferences is LIT Con , the annual legal tech conference produced by Suffolk Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab and its Legal Innovation and Technology Institute. Even at full price, it is just $50. But you can sign up by tomorrow for just half that. For that, you get a day-long program that includes substantive presentations mixed with rapid-fire talks from legal tech innovators and a student showcase of projects developed by students in

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Law Sites

MARCH 11, 2024

If you are a company looking to target your advertising to an audience of those interested in legal tech, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this blog and our related media properties. By definition, our audience is composed almost entirely of readers and listeners who are interested in legal tech news, ideas and trends. These are precisely the people who read this blog, listen to our podcasts, watch our videos, subscribe to our emails, and search our directory.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday that it should dismiss Judge Pauline Newman’s remaining challenges to the Council’s decision to suspend Newman indefinitely from the court because all of Newman’s claims “fail as a matter of law.” Most recently, on February 12, the District of Columbia court denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by Judge Newman.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C., one of America’s oldest continuously-operated patent practices founded and operated by a woman patent attorney, is seeking a registered U.S. patent attorney, preferably with a proven track record in patenting software, artificial intelligence (AI), convolutional network, medical devices, and other electrical technologies.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 12, 2024

On March 11, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal issued an order on rehearing that upheld the attorney’s fee award levied against petitioner OpenSky Industries over its abuse of process during inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Although Director Vidal’s order delayed the date by which OpenSky must pay, the ruling nixed OpenSky’s challenges to the more than $400,000 attorney’s fee award in favor of patent owner VLSI.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) release a joint study on the IP implications of non-fungible tokens (NFTs); The New York Times Company denies “hacking” ChatGPT; and Caltech and Microsoft settle a wi-fi patent infringement case.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday affirmed a district court finding that two inventors should be added as co-inventors to a patent for a method of transporting gaseous fluids. The CAFC concluded that the record “does not leave us with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made” in finding the inventors contributed significantly to the invention.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2024

The Judicial Conference of the United States announced yesterday that it is strengthening its policy on random case assignments in order to limit the practice of judge shopping in U.S. district courts. According to the press release, the policy would assign judges via a district-wide random selection process in “all civil actions that seek to bar or mandate state or federal actions, ‘whether by declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relief.

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