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It seems all too easy to poke fun at Charlie Sheen's antics of late. And, while they serve as cautionary tales in numerous contexts, his use of social media to launch his “tiger blood”-fueled rampage against his employer may actually turn into evidence someday (likely in a breach of contract action against his former employer). His public meltdown was surely a high water mark for social media as a window into the real-time (can't look away) train wreck that is now Mr. Sheen's career. After all, he now has over three million Twitter followers, and for those who don't expressly follow his now infamous rants (“#winning”), other media outlets stand by to repost and re-tweet every scintillating proclamation.
For those who think that they'd prefer to have less Sheen in their daily diets, let's use his 15 minutes of ber-fame to examine the impact of social media on the traditionally e-mail-oriented electronic discovery process we've all come to know and love. As a starting point, it's important to recognize that social media is a delivery mechanism, but the content drives the entire downstream discovery and compliance-oriented tasks. While it's easy to say that content is king, it's still hard not to argue that things really are different with this new, highly dynamic form factor. On balance though, while the e-discovery and regulatory issues are fundamentally the same, the social media genre does genuinely pose a range of tactical and strategic discovery challenges.
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
In recent years, there has been a growing number of dry cleaners claiming to be "organic," "green," or "eco-friendly." While that may be true with respect to some, many dry cleaners continue to use a cleaning method involving the use of a solvent called perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. And, there seems to be an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from environmental problems associated with historic dry cleaning operations utilizing this chemical.