September 2024

28 Sep 24


Lawyers drafting online terms of use/service and privacy policies are well-advised to establish a record that allows the client to demonstrate the existence of such terms and the date they were in effect. Such a record will prove quite handy in future litigation. See, eg, Kinney v. YouTube, LLC (Cal. Ct. App. 2018) (YouTube forced to rely on sworn testimony of engineer responsible for posting YouTube terms of service to prove that plaintiff click-accepted a version of the YouTube terms that included a synthetic one-year statute of limitations).

14 Sep 24
Google AI search results for the search term "origin of lawyers as sharks" --

The word "shark" entered the English language in the 1560s, well after professional lawyers emerged in the thirteenth century. The term "shark lawyer" has been used to describe lawyers for centuries and has multiple origins: