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The Brave New World Of e-Workplace Privacy Policies

Robert D. Brownstone

Part One of this article, last month, examined the liability involved with social media and e-mail use. Part Two discusses implementing compliant and defensible workplace policies.

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Crowdsourcing the Law

Robert J. Ambrogi

The Internet's completely over, the musician once-again known as Prince declared this summer. If so, I am at a loss to explain the ongoing emergence of innovative Web sites such as Spindle Law, a new site that is reconfiguring the traditional legal treatise to make it better fit a "Web 2.0" world.

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Navigating the Changing Technological Landscape

Fernando M. Pinguelo & Keya C. Denner

In <i>City of Ontario v. Quon</i>, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a government employer's search of an employee's communications on an employer-issued pager was reasonable under the circumstances and, therefore, did not violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court's narrowly tailored decision underscores that cases in the area of employee privacy will continue to be highly fact-sensitive.

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Client Speak: Client Feedback ' The 12 Essential Steps

Donald Aronson

This article ' in two parts ' will deal with the Client Feedback process, specifically the 12 essential steps involved. This first part lists the 12 steps and then describes steps 1 through 4a (pre-interview planning).

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Career Journal: Possession Is Not Nine-Tenths of the Law

Michael DeCosta

Even if law firms have made no changes to their existing structure, partners have done little lately to bolster the cause of their marketing organizations.

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ERM 2.0 ' What's Next for Legal Marketers

Wilbur Swan

Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) is what firms today use to track and manage their relationships to determine which connections firm-wide can be valuable in growing their business. But ERM, like most marketing technologies, has evolved.

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Business Crimes Hotline

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Recent national rulings of importance.

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In the Courts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A look at a recent high-profile case.

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Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Under the Obama Administration

David Laing

Judging by the numbers, the Obama DOJ has been as active, or at least as successful, in criminal antitrust enforcement as candidate Obama promised. Criminal antitrust fines in 2009 exceeded $1 billion...

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Criminal Prosecution Under New York State's Martin Act

Adam S. Kaufmann & Marc Frazier Scholl

In the decades following the Great Depression, the Martin Act became a powerful tool for civil protection against fraud. By the early 1990s, the Martin Act was regularly employed against larger institutions as well as smaller fraudulent schemes.

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