Complex Discovery

JUNE 17, 2025

Drawing from the European Commission’s Generative AI Outlook Report – Exploring the Intersection of Technology, Society and Policy (JRC142598), it examines the legal and ethical questions emerging as AI tools increasingly generate content that influences decisions in litigation, compliance, and client representation.

Technology

Complex Discovery

JULY 21, 2025

Whether conducting risk assessments, validating vendor claims, or ensuring defensibility in litigation, recognizing the type of bias at play is foundational to effective governance. In legal practice, this same form of bias allows generative tools to draft clauses, retrieve relevant case law, or predict document responsiveness.

Technology

IP Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2025

Squarely presented in this case is the question of whether prosecution laches is a legitimate doctrine that can render any patent unenforceable if it takes longer than six years to obtain the patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Case Law

IP Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2025

CLS Bank decision has been with us for over 10 years, subject matter eligibility case law still seems to defy predictability. The recent Contour IP Holding case gives us a new data point and another curve on the road. While the Alice v.

Case Law

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

JULY 31, 2025

Case law gives indicators, but finding a general rule is not easy, if possible at all. Lawyers may be tempted to give political advice mixed with legal advice to clients who seek advice on potential litigation, for example, that is politically impactful. Comment 6). more difficult. That may well pose dangers under Rule 2.1.

Real Estate

IP Watchdog

JULY 15, 2025

The Federal Circuit found the PTAB’s ruling consistent with its own case law on AAPA, which provided general background knowledge for a person of ordinary skill in the art without serving as the sole basis for the PTAB’s obviousness finding. Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Case Law

E-Discovery LLC

JULY 30, 2025

The alleged facts of the case demonstrate risks of future psychological harm and repetition of the injury against which plaintiffs are litigating. Accordingly, the court allows LZ to proceed in this case anonymously using her initials. Opportunity Comm’n v. Genesh, Inc., 2025 WL 1884724, at *1 (D.

Discovery

Percipient

JULY 1, 2025

When law enforcement serves a warrant or a civil litigant serves a subpoena seeking your company’s electronically stored information, is your organization prepared to properly respond? For instance, the government is often entitled to more information than a private civil litigant. the actual text of an email). See Google v.

Subpoenas

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 18, 2025

What is the appropriate response of the court if a schedule of costs is served late? This is an issue considered in a recent High Court judgment. It provides a good opportunity to review the rules, the guidance, and previous.

Case Law

Civil Litigation Brief

JULY 16, 2025

There have been a number of cases recently where discontinuing parties have sought to escape the costs consequences that normally apply. We have such a case here. The judge considers the relevant rules and case law in detail.

Case Law

Law Sites

JUNE 4, 2024

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

Litigation

E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By definition, a litigation hold notice is a communication from an attorney to a client regarding the duty to preserve potentially responsive information. [1] 7, 2025), the court held that litigation hold notices were privileged. DISCOVERY OF LITIGATION HOLD NOTICES HAS LONG BEEN AN ISSUE. 1] In Homeland Ins. Grimm (ret.)

Discovery

Discovery Advocate

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Key Takeaway: Under New York law, the attorney-client privilege applies to advice from counsel regarding general legal subjects, even when unsolicited and there is no anticipated litigation or pending action. The documents also include guidance on drafting parole decisions that accord with the law.

Litigation

E-Discovery LLC

MAY 17, 2025

PRODUCTION OF METADATA WAS ORDERED Local Rule 26(e)(4) provided that [e]xcept as otherwise provided, metadata, especially substantive metadata, need not be routinely produced, except upon agreement of the requesting and producing litigants, or upon a showing of good cause in a motion filed by the requesting party. Fed.R.Civ.P. 22, 2020); S.

Objections

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2021

On August 3, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled against plaintiff Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s s claim of trade dress infringement against defendant Monster Energy Co. due in part to plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate secondary meaning or likelihood of confusion. On June 7, 2021, the U.S.

Case Law

Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As law students, few litigators imagined themselves transitioning into project management roles after passing the bar. Litigators rarely receive formal training in project management, but this does not mean they do not do project management. An Accidental Project Manager. DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE.

Trial Preparation

Civil Litigation Brief

JANUARY 30, 2025

The appellants, litigants in person, relied on case law that apparently supported their case. There is a very unusual element to the judgment of Mr Justice Kerr in Olsen & Anor v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB).

Case Law

Lawmatics

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Document Review AI-powered algorithms can quickly review and analyze large volumes of legal documents, contracts, and case law to obtain pertinent information, identify patterns, and flag potential issues.

Technology

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In Europe, several courts enjoy established reputations for patent litigation, notably in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Holland and Italy. Its likely place among the world’s preeminent patent courts can be inferred, at least in part, from the territorial and subject matter jurisdiction of this novel court.

Litigation

Discovery Advocate

JUNE 7, 2023

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , Further, employers should examine their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies to ensure that what is or is not company data is well defined according to their business, regulatory and litigation needs. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. Link to District Circuit Decision

Subpoenas

Discovery Advocate

JUNE 8, 2023

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , Further, employers should examine their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies to ensure that what is or is not company data is well defined according to their business, regulatory and litigation needs. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. Link to District Circuit Decision

Subpoenas

E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The September 6, 2024, decision in In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, 2024 WL 4125618 (N.D. Therefore, “control” existed where a litigant had the legal right to obtain documents on demand. 2024), applies the “legal control” standard to Fed.R.Civ.P.

Subpoenas

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By John Patzakis As we have mentioned many times, nearly every litigation matter involves social media evidence. If your case does not feature such important evidence, it is likely because you are not looking for it. The preliminary result was 5,623 cases.

Evidence

IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, a recent district court decision misconstrued the case law to conclude otherwise in Mon Cheri v. Under Ninth Circuit precedent, web hosting services like Cloudflare can be held contributorily liable for assisting in the infringement under the material contribution theory. Cloudflare.

Precedent

E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It includes reports run for an opposing litigant, as part of a cooperative process to refine search requests; and, reports run for internal analysis. 9, 2024), a litigant was ordered to “run the search terms against identified data sources and produce a hit report.” What is a “hit report” a/k/a “search term report”? 251, 256 (D.

Discovery

Lawmatics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

eDiscovery Platforms: Systems for efficiently searching, analyzing, and producing electronic information relevant to legal cases and discovery requests. Legal Research Databases: Comprehensive case law repositories, statutes, verdicts, filings, and other legal data to inform legal strategy. billion globally in 2022.

Exhibits

IP Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Licensing negotiations are not static snapshots in time, they often evolve and change according to developing circumstances, case-law, parties’ conduct, and many other factors. This short article focuses on how risk – in the economic and legal sense – changes over time, and what this implies for patent licensing dynamics.

Automotive

E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

StubHub: Modification of ESI Protocol and Denial of Sanctions – Performance Was Impossible – EDRM ; The ESI Protocol: Your Word is Your Bond… Or, Is It? – EDRM Cook sets out the best practice when a litigant contends that performance is impossible or not proportionate to the needs of the case.

Discovery

IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In a previous article, we discussed the difference between a reasonable royalty for patent infringement and a FRAND licensing rate, both in terms of their origins and objectives: the former being a creature of statute and case law that seeks to compensate a patent owner for infringement, whereas the latter is rooted in contract and seeks, amongst other (..)

Objections

Lawmatics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

AI helps legal professionals find relevant case law, statutes, and precedents by searching and summarizing vast legal databases. Predicting legal outcomes can be very valuable since it allows an attorney to decide whether to take a case, how much to invest in experts, or whether to advise clients to settle or litigate.

Legal Research

Hanzo Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ongoing case of Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed crypto exchange FTX, the growing volume of evidence highlights the new landscape of ediscovery challenges when it comes to the breadth of new data sources showing up in corporate litigation.

Discovery

CaseFox

JUNE 5, 2023

The vast amount of electronically stored information (ESI) makes it essential for legal professionals to adopt effective eDiscovery strategies for navigating the complex world of litigation. The exponential growth of digital information has made eDiscovery a critical component of modern litigation.

Technology

Steno

APRIL 1, 2025

The legal profession is experiencing a technological transformation unlike any in its history, with artificial intelligence (AI) now capable of drafting documents, analyzing case law, reviewing contracts, and even predicting litigation outcomes.

Case Law

IP Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2024

The petition specifically asked the Court to review the CAFC’s holding that Schwendimann’s argument that “justification for selection of a primary reference is a necessary step to guard against hindsight bias for the motivation to combine references” was unsupported by Federal Circuit case law.

Precedent

E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Plaintiffs correctly note that this is a boilerplate objection, and that some case law discourages the use of boilerplate objections such as these. … Under our rules, parties to civil litigation are given broad discovery privileges. “Boilerplate” was defined in Liguria Foods, Inc. Griffith Lab’ys, Inc., 168, 170 n.1

Objections

Law Sites

MARCH 18, 2024

Most legal tech startups make bold declarations about public interest, access to justice and democratizing the law when it suits them. Case law books waiting to be scanned. Harvard would contribute the law books and run the scanning process inside the law library. Ultimately, by mid-2015, the deal had taken shape.

Legal Research

Discovery Advocate

APRIL 6, 2018

And while some of the marketing efforts surrounding TAR make it seem TAR can replace attorney review wholesale, some attorneys considering the use of TAR in litigation or in response to regulatory inquiries are more focused on ignoring the “buzz” and instead have zeroed in on what judges have actually said (and held) regarding TAR.

Technology