In-house legal departments face increasing workloads and complexity. Choosing the best law office software solutions is crucial for maintaining productivity and ensuring compliance. In this blog post, we look at various insights for legal operations professionals...
At its core, matter management serves as the backbone of corporate legal operations, orchestrating every aspect of legal work within an organization. Think of it as the central nervous system coordinating all legal activities, documentation, and team collaboration...
Procurement of lawyer software solutions in the legal department requires more than just saying yes to the buy. There’s a process that adds a “success” bow to the lawyer software customer experience beyond the immediate horizon. A legal operations...
The digitization of everything in corporate legal departments, and now with the advent of AI, means that the law department and outside counsel need to utilize legal e-billing software to streamline their financial operations. LEDES (Legal Electronic Data Exchange...
Review this checklist to provide guidance to non-legal company employees reviewing and executing a commercial contract. It addresses the different types of contracts requiring review, the approval process, and key provisions to be aware of when reviewing contracts...
March 2025 Litigation Insights
In Louisiana, grand juries traditionally operate as an investigative body independent of both the prosecutor's office and the courts. Thus, although the grand jury normally operates in the courthouse and under judicial auspices, its institutional relationship...
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership information reporting was mandated under the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. CTA requires companies that are formed or registered to do business in the...
More Kids’ Online Safety Measures Expected in 2025 Despite legal challenges that have blocked new state laws aimed at protecting kids from the potential harms of social media from taking effect, lawmakers in multiple states, including Indiana, Nevada, New...
The plaintiff purchaser filed an action for breach of an implied warranty of merchantability and breach of an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose against the defendant seller relating to the return of a boat engine that smoked. The Superior Court...
In the civil action for copyright infringement, plaintiff Michael Kienitz alleged that defendants Sconnie Nation LLC and Underground Printing-Wisconsin, LLC infringed his copyright in the Official Portrait of Mayor Paul Soglin by using the photograph on t-shirts...
The teen-aged decedent was riding his bicycle in a church parking lot with a group of other teen-agers. The teen-aged driver could see the decedent and his friends as she approached the parking lot in her vehicle but did not see the decedent until he rode his bicycle...
A city ordinance prohibited solicitation of orders for merchandise without first procuring a license from the city authorities and paying a license tax. The Jehovah's Witnesses brought suit to restrain threatened criminal prosecution by the city for the Jehovah's...
Appellants' counsel filed an original, amended, and second amended complaint containing 28 counts in 52 pages, including civil racketeering claims, claims under 42 U.S.C.S. §§ 1983 and 1985, and numerous state law claims. Each claim targeted appellees...
The respondent trustee demanded a jury trial in adversary proceedings, and the petitioner's motion to strike said demand was denied by the bankruptcy court, which denial was affirmed by the district court. Petitioner, a creditor in a Chapter 7 case, sought...
The wife filed for divorce in September 1973 and the parties agreed to arrangements for custody, visitation, and support, which were approved. The husband did not pay support from the time of separation until the temporary decree and then made the payments until...
Plaintiff sold two categories of used golf balls, one of which was "refurbished" balls. Its refurbishing process included cosmetically treating the balls by removing the base coat of paint, the clear coat layer, and the trademark and model markings without...
The plaintiffs, former student-athletes, alleged that the defendant T3Media, a media service, violated their common-law right of publicity by licensing their photographs without obtaining consent.
The defendant argued that a search warrant violated Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(b), that prior conviction records should have been excluded under Fed. R. Evid. 802, 901(a), 28 U.S.C.S. § 1738, and the Confrontation Clause, and that admitting four convictions for purposes...
The defendant police officers stopped and searched the plaintiff's taxicab, finding handguns and cocaine. The state trial court denied the plaintiff's motion to suppress the evidence, leading to his conviction and imprisonment. Years later, the appellate...
During a search warrant execution at the factory where Perez Cruz worked, he was detained, interrogated, and arrested for immigration violations along with about 130 other workers. He faced removal proceedings for entering the U.S. without inspection. Immigration...
At 2 A.M., the defendant ran a stop sign and two red lights. When a police officer tried to stop him, he refused, despite pleas from his passengers. Speeding, he failed to make a turn and crashed into a house, killing one person. The defendant was found intoxicated...
Plaintiffs sued defendant State of New York and others, challenging the constitutionality of the HAIL Act, a law regulating medallion taxicabs (or "yellow cabs") and livery vehicles in New York City. The supreme court (New York) entered a judgment nullifying...
Plaintiffs were musical union members and copyright holders of ten songs played at defendant trade show sponsors' trade show. Plaintiffs alleged defendants were vicariously liable or contributory infringers for songs which exhibitors at the show performed.
Amgen Inc. appealed a decision from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which included three key points: (1) partial judgment granted to Sandoz Inc. on its counterclaims interpreting the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation...