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<B><I>BREAKING NEWS:</b></i> <b>Ninth Circuit Sides With Gay Couples in 2-1 Ruling on Prop 8</b>

Ginny LaRoe

Taking a narrow approach in deciding the blockbuster challenge to California's ban on gay marriage, a split panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 7 found Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

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NY Bar Releases Ethics Opinions App

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The New York State Bar Association announced the release of its free Mobile Ethics App that allows judges, lawyers and law students to access instant ethics advice from portable devices.

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Nixon & Vanderhye Transforms IP Data Workflow with First To File

Bryan Davidson

As our practice and the number of files we handled both grew, we continually needed to manage and expand our file room space. However, since the file room space could not be used productively to accommodate fee billers, maintaining a large file room amounted to a negative ongoing overhead cost for the firm.

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<b><i>Product Review:</b></i> Making the Transition from e-Discovery to Information Management with C2C

Brett Burney

e-Mail is still the number one source of relevant information for litigation, so it's no surprise that it's the starting line for corporations seeking to implement information management policies. One of the more straightforward methods is with an e-mail archiving platform.

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Document Renovation

Randall Farrar

Documents are the currency of law firms. Attorneys author, edit and submit thousands of documents daily. While content is the most important aspect of legal documents, and the majority of time should be spent on this, the formatting of a document can often create issues and burn up precious billable hours. The time spent reformatting and cleaning up documents can be reduced significantly if firms have a process in place for creating and fixing documents based on Microsoft Word's best practices.

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Geotracking and e-Discovery

Neal Lawson & Trent Livingston

This article explores the ways in which geotracking data can be created, potential issues associated with this information, and how it might all relate to e-discovery, including how long the information is stored, whether it is discoverable and how or whether it can be used in a case.

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Action over Google Adwords

Amy Miller

Google has won another key victory in a lawsuit challenging its AdWords keyword advertising program. In early January, Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California declined to certify a purported class action, which alleges that the search engine engaged in deceptive and unfair advertising regarding Google AdWords.

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Opening the Web As a Frontier for Gambling in the U.S.

Sue Reisinger

An opinion published by the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel in late December has opened the way for state lotteries to sell tickets via the Internet. And now people are wondering if poker, casinos, and other online gaming enterprises can be far behind.

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Proving Contributory Online Trademark Infringement

Richard Raysman & Peter Brown

The ubiquity of the Web on computers, mobile phones and tablets offers businesses the opportunity to connect with consumers throughout the world in ways they never could before. Unfortunately, along with the success of legitimate online commerce, the distribution and sale of counterfeit products through professional-looking websites has also increased dramatically, particularly in the clothing, consumer electronics, pharmaceutical and footwear industries.

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SOPA and PIPA Put on Hold

Steven Salkin

Fueled by Twitter and Facebook postings, the public became more aware of SOPA and its sibling Senate legislation, PIPA (Protect IP Act) and took to e-mail and old-fashioned telephones to let their Congresspersons know how they felt. Whether those who sent messages read the Bills or knew what they really said, the word was out: these Bills would kill the Internet as we know it.

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