Live today on the weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, we’ll get a briefing on the major upgrade to Vincent AI, the vLex AI assistant, from Robin Chesterman, global head of product, and Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, following yesterday’s announcement of major enhancements to the legal workflow assistant. Of course, the panel will also talk about
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Legal Limelight: Nicole Burlison Knepper, Principal and Partner, Padberg Applebaum Knepper
By Staff Report
Nicole Burlison Knepper is the new president of the Lawyers Association of St. Louis. She was elected in May and will serve for the association’s 2024-2025 term.
Burlison Knepper, a principal and partner with Padberg Applebaum Knepper, focuses her practice on complex injury cases and has litigated them in in state, federal and appellate courts.…
Commentary: Ethos and Appellate Advocacy
By Staff Report
Advanced technology plays an important role in a lawyer’s life. Computerized legal research and electronic filing are now the norm, with artificial intelligence being incorporated into legal research platforms. Despite these advances, the practice of law remains primarily a human endeavor, and the ancient lessons that have long guided lawyers as advocates should not be…
Recipient not required to pay back FPUC benefits, Court of Appeals rules
The denial of an individual’s application for waiver of recovery of overpayment of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) benefits was not supported by competent and substantial evidence, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled on August 27, reversing a determination that the amount must be repaid.
In March 2020, Ana Ramirez was a full-time…
Appellate Judicial Commission releases demographic information of applicants to vacancy
By Staff Report
The Appellate Judicial Commission announced the demographic information for 18 candidates who applied for the vacancy created by the impending retirement of Judge Kurt S. Odenwald, Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.
Odenwald spent nearly 17 years in judicial service and was appointed to the court in October 2007, according to the Appellate Judicial Commission.…
There Are Critical Business Terms in Cloud Contracts That You Must Negotiate
The move to the cloud has been transformative, but negotiating cloud and SaaS contracts presents its own set of challenges.
The legal and business terms presented in cloud contracts are different than in traditional on-premise software licenses.
In a cloud contract, you need to aggressively negotiate substantial discounts off of the list price of the…
Missouri judge rejects innocence claim of Marcellus Williams, who faces execution
A judge declined Thursday to vacate the conviction and death sentence of Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man scheduled for execution later this month in the stabbing death of a woman in 1998, despite questions about DNA evidence on the knife used in the attack.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton presided over an …
A Very Demure and Very Mindful Look at What Celebrities Can Teach Us About Trademarks
By JC Zwisler
What do a social media content creator and reality television stars have in common? Apart from more followers than I’ll ever have, significant issues regarding their trademarks. Jools Lebron, a content creator, was distraught to learn that several individuals applied to register with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) a catchphrase she…
Part III: You’ve Got Patents! Or Someone Else Does… Where Can You Find Resolution?
As noted in Part I of this series, patent litigation can be a mechanism for parties to spar and evaluate patent rights, as well as each other, prior to making the business agreements that settle such disputes. Once a patent is asserted to be infringed with the filing of a lawsuit, the dispute can become…
LawNext: How One Legal Tech Startup Is Simplifying Data Collection from Mobile Devices
By Bob Ambrogi
Matt Rasmussen had worked for some 20 years in litigation technology and support at major law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and litigation services providers, when he wondered why mobile collections had to be so time-consuming, inefficient and invasively overbroad. As he looked into it, he realized there was a better way to manage mobile collections.…