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August 28, 2024 | Legaltech News

Privileged Prompts, Mid-Market Momentum, the Cloud's Comeback & More: Top Takeaways from ILTACON 2024

While generative AI remained the topic du jour, the legal industry's conversations have evolved, focusing on how the technology is poised to change the law firm market, e-discovery and legal tech as a whole.

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August 28, 2024 | National Law Journal

'Any NFT Is a Security': What an SEC Wells Notice Sent to OpenSea Could Mean for Attorneys

"The risk has been in the back of people's minds, but it has not been the same type of issue as creating a cryptocurrency," said Cameron Pick, a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun.

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August 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

3rd Circuit: TikTok Cannot Evade Claims That Its Algorithm Caused 10-Year-Old's Death

"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.

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August 28, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

CrowdStrike Faces 2nd Class Action Over Global Computer Crash

Burns Charest is leading a legal team suing CrowdStrike for Delta Air Lines passengers who had to spend funds to cope with the disruption of their travel plans caused by the July global computer outage.

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August 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

AFAs Will Grow as Firms Increase Gen AI Usage, New Survey Finds

"When we first saw AFAs hit the market, it was totally client-driven. With this new shift, it could be law firm-driven, because their profitability is at stake," said Barnes & Thornburg's Cassie Vertovec, one of the authors of the study.

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August 27, 2024 | Legaltech News

Mary O'Carroll on Her Move to Goodwin: Law Firms Are at the Heart of Industry Disruption

O'Carroll, who formerly worked in a legal-ops role at Google and at CLM provider Ironclad, believes that law firms are at an inflection point when it comes to meeting the business needs of their clients.

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August 27, 2024 | Corporate Counsel

'This Is a Huge Miss!': More Companies Requiring JDs for Legal Ops Roles, a Trend Vets of the Field Call Nonsensical

"This is a way to gatekeep and to feel safe without actually being safe," said Akshay Verma, a former Meta legal ops chief whose recent LinkedIn post calling the requirement needlessly exclusionary attracted dozens of comments of support.

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August 27, 2024 | The Recorder

Brother of Punk Icon 'Joey Ramone' Says Widow of Bandmate 'Johnny Ramone' Is Infringing Band's Trademarks

The New York-filed complaint says the woman using the name "Linda Ramone" is falsely claiming ownership of the Ramones' legacy and intellectual property.

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