A legal technology developer’s claims that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld violated user agreements by assuming ownership of its proprietary software could continue, a Supreme Court judge in Washington, DC ruled last week.
The latest development in the dispute over ownership rights to a law-making software saw Judge Juliet McKenna on February 15 rule that four of defendant Xcential’s counterclaims against the Am Law 100 firm—for breach of its license agreement, misappropriation of trade secrets, misappropriation of confidential information and breach of implied contract – could move forward, while the tech company’s defamation of title claim was dismissed.
