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Settlement Between Gaga and Manager To Stay Out of Public View
Lady Gaga and her former producer, Rob Fusari, won a court order that keeps a lid on the terms of a 2010 settlement agreement between them that has become pertinent to another case now headed for trial.
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If You're Not on Facebook, You're Committing Malpractice
Imagine you're cross-examining a witness about a phone call, but you've never used a telephone before. Ridiculous, right? But is it any different than wading into a new client matter where social media communications are at issue without having ever used social media?
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The DNA of an In-House Corporate e-Discovery Project Manager
What is the DNA of an in-house e-discovery project manager ' and how can you become one, whether you are a lawyer or a technician? Let's define an in-house e-discovery project manager, examine in-house corporate hiring trends and endeavor to understand what the corporate appetite is for grooming talent or, conversely, for hiring experienced e-discovery professionals.
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John Travolta Denied Dismissal of Suit By His Former Pilot
It will take more than an anti-SLAPP motion to bring down a suit filed against John Travolta by the movie star's former pilot, the California Court of Appeal, Second District ruled.
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New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks
Recent advances in technology assisted review (what I call "TAR 2.0") include the ability to deal with low richness, rolling collections, and flexible inputs in addition to vast improvements in speed. These improvements now allow TAR to be used effectively in many more discovery workflows than its traditional "TAR 1.0" use in classifying large numbers of documents for production.
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Med Mal News
Discussion of two major cases.
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Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms
The law firm records management industry has been evolving to an information governance framework. The records function within the firm has traditionally been more of a back-end function, with the idea that everything was created in paper, made into an official record, indexed and hopefully regulated by retention schedules.
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Decisions of Interest
Expert analysis of two major rulings.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo
In <i>ABC v. Aereo</i>, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Second Circuit's holding that Aereo did not directly infringe the copyright owners' public performance rights through the operation of the "Watch Now" function of its service.
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Supreme Court Upholds Lanham Act Claim in Juice Wars
Pomegranate juice is the subject of an intense legal battle between POM Wonderful and Coca-Cola Co. In its Lanham Act challenge, POM alleges that Coke's juice product's name, label, marketing and advertising mislead consumers into thinking the product is mostly a pomegranate and blueberry juice when it in fact is mostly apple and grape juice.
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