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Legal Lessons Gleaned from Music Industry’s High-Profile, File-Sharing Litigation
Entertainment Law & Finance
When the cash-strapped recording industry announced at the end of 2008 that it would largely drop its aggressive litigation campaign against unauthorized file sharers, some observers saw this as a defeat for record labels. But numerous court rulings have been issued over the past few years that debate and/or establish legal guidelines that will be referenced in file-sharer cases that are either still in the pipeline or may later crop up.

A Touch of Gray
e-Commerce Law & Strategy
No one enjoys clearing rights. Checking that you may use content (whether on your Web site, in a publication, or for a performance) and won’t be sued over it takes time and effort. And, for e-commerce counsel clients, that means more money.

Virtual Contacts and Personal Jurisdiction
Internet Law & Strategy
This article analyzes how courts are handling jurisdictional questions attendant to the next generation of technology, such as forms of "cloud computing," including virtual data rooms and social networks. As these technologies continue to develop and opportunities arise to increase revenue, companies risk having to defend themselves in far-off jurisdictions never before contemplated.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Former Employees
Employment Law Strategist
Laptops, thumb drives, data sticks, e-mails, and USB ports make it easy for employees to walk out of a company with valuable information, customer lists, and trade secrets. An employer’s remedies are often limited.

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Addressing Generational ‘Tech Gaps’ for More Efficient, Effective Legal Practice
One way legal practices are trying to handle cutbacks is through increased use of technology — essentially harnessing software and online technology to make employees and operations more efficient while maintaining quality work. Working with IT colleagues, this has proven to be a successful strategy for many lawyers. However, it turns out there are some rather sharp differences in how technology is perceived and used by legal professionals among different generations. These differences, or "generational gaps," can lead to issues in the workplace between colleagues, as well as less efficient use of time and resources by law firm or company employees. Naturally, each of these concerns is amplified given difficult economic circumstances.

New Document Metadata Changes In Microsoft Office 2007
The document metadata contained in a Word document other than the intended text doesn’t necessarily create risk of adverse disclosure, because some document metadata is necessary for formatting or macro automation of the document. However, some document metadata, such as Tracked Changes, may be used to share among cooperators, but should not be shared with adversaries or in some instances clients, because it contains author and date metadata.

KM Implementation At Reed Smith
Despite the fact that our total data creation had increased exponentially, Reed Smith hadn’t invested nearly enough in our information infrastructure, and simple processes such as document retrieval were taking far too long. We knew we needed to take control of our data before it took hold of us. Following is an account of the firm’s recent implementation of Recommind’s MindServer Search platform as the foundation for its Knowledge Management infrastructure.

Rocket Matter: Case Management for the Small Firm
What attorneys are missing is a brand new class of case management programs which, while they seek to replace older programs, also seek to solve many of the concerns law firms face when dealing with digital client data: security, mobile access and backup. As one of the newcomers to this market, Rocket Matter has embraced the new Software as a Service ("SaaS") model of delivering software from the Internet Cloud.

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