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Applying Technology To the Business of Health Care

Jonathan Bick

Advocates for online health services have long argued that the health care-services and health care-products industries could significantly enhance its ability to deliver quality products and services to consumers by using e-commerce to improve access to, and the timeliness and accuracy of, information, delivery and purchasing pertaining to the health care-sector supply chain.

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Asking Prospective Employees for Social Media Login Data

Steven W. Suflas & Mary Cate Gordon

A recent trend in the human resources community is to ask prospective employees for usernames and passwords to social media sites to allow the hiring employer access to otherwise private information about an employment candidate's "online identity." e-Commerce companies, even though they are based on and operate through online activities, sometimes through social media, should carefully consider what principals and hiring parties in the firms may view as a natural inclination to examine an applicant's or an employee's social media postings and persona by demanding access to the sites.

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The Progressive Lawyer: Telling Your Client's Story at Trial

Curtis J. Romanowski

The thought that people do not need to be engaged or motivated when faced with new information is based on the mythology that assumes that we can just pour facts into the passive minds of our judges, and they will automatically and somehow "get it.

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Copy<i>wrongs</i> for Start-up Firms

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

Much virtual ink has been spilled about the complexities of applying traditional copyright law to e-commerce (and the Internet, generally). The intersection of law developed for the written word on paper, and tangible objects, and digital distribution of their modern equivalents, remains a work in progress, to say the least.

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My 'Friend,' the Judge

William R. Wright

Is it permissible for a judge to become friends on a social media site with lawyers who appear before the judge? The comments to the rule do not address the issue, and there is disagreement among ethics committees in the various states with respect to this specific question.

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Five Tips for Avoiding Settlement Traps

Bruce Ericson & Frederick Brodie

When a lawsuit is settled, the clients cut a deal, the legal gladiators lay down their briefs, and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. But is that sigh premature?

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The Tension Between Marriage Equality and Religious Liberty

Frank Gulino

Even amid signs of rising support, there remains a palpable tension between proponents of marriage equality and opponents who argue that same-sex marriage laws threaten their religious liberty.

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Digital Copiers Don't Forget

L. Elise Dieterich

Risk mitigation requires a good understanding of where the vulnerabilities are, and one that many companies have missed is the sensitive data that likely reside in the hard drive memories of printers, copiers, and fax machines.

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Lease Accounting Project Update

Bill Bosco

After the February FASB/IASB Lease Accounting Project meetings,the Boards added a fourth approach that the ELFA has been recommending from the start of the Lease Project.

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