How Companies Are Addressing Social Media Risk
For companies, social media presents both opportunities and risks. These risks include reputational, brand, legal, regulatory and security concerns. This article outlines some approaches that companies are taking to manage these risks.
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Blogging and Your Business
As in-house counsel, if your employees post a blog comment, or an entry on Facebook or Twitter about your company or its products, a number of questions are raised. Is the company responsible?
Dissecting the Latest Pronouncements on Ex parte Physician Interviews
There is a recurring battle playing out in trial courts across the country in medical negligence cases as to whether <i>ex parte</i> interviews with a patient's treating physicians are permissible under HIPAA and its implementing privacy rules.
The Battle of Experts
The first installment of this article discussed how facts and opinions are not the only things a jury considers in deciding the outcome of a medical malpractice case; jurors also pay close attention to large and small gaffes that may show an expert is biased. How can you best exploit these lapses when showing that the other side's experts are less reliable than they might appear?
The Internet Has Diminished Privacy Expectations and Torts
Blogs, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter) and news sites, when accessible via search engines (Google) and other Internet data-mining applications, afford the public astounding access to previously inaccessible information about other people, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By doing so, the Internet is changing society's expectation of privacy and, as a result, reducing the prevalence of what is perceived to be an actionable privacy violation, and actions about and awards for these.
A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals
Cloud computing has become the technology buzzword of the new decade. The idea, as e-commerce and tech-company (or tech-savvy) counsel may know, is to use a multilayered network of servers and computers to provide computing and hosting power when needed ' sort of a front-end and back-office supplement and backup system without much of the in-house worries that go with those investments in IT structure.
The Determination of a Corporation's 'Principal Place of Business'
What is the "principal place of business" of a multinational corporation that has corporate headquarters in New York, but enjoys relatively few sales in that state, and instead conducts business in all 50 states and 39 other nations? What is "Business," anyway?
The Future Profitability of Law Firms
The next several years will see significant changes in the legal profession. It will not be the end of the world; most law firms will survive. This article discusses two distinct world views that will determine which firms will likely prosper, and which will survive.
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Communicating Firm Finances to the Partnership
Most financial misunderstandings can be avoided if firm management were to use some fairly straightforward communication techniques with their general partnership. This article compiles a few considerations for a law firm's head-of-finance.
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