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RIAA Tempers Tactics
In December, the RIAA announced that it would no longer look to file suit against individual file sharers and instead form relationships with ISPs that maintain the online accounts of the consumers.
Document Management With Lextranet 5.6
There is no shortage of e-discovery case-management tools on the market. Each has its unique strengths and shortcomings. Most applications provide a plethora of features for managing document workflows, searching the database, reviewing and coding documents and so on. But having the most features doesn't necessarily translate into the strongest solution. User-friendliness, customization and reviewer throughput speed are much more important than having the most "bells and whistles" or a zillion different functions.
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Listen Up: What the Discoverability of Audio Recordings Should Mean to IT Professionals
The necessity for IT professionals to haul audio recordings into their general e-discovery process is gaining awareness because of situations that may ' at first glance ' appear harmless.
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Empower Your Browser: New Possibilities
The Web browser has evolved into a platform for our digital lives, offering more interactivity while moving further beyond its passive browsing roots (i.e., checking e-mail, paying bills and balancing checkbooks, watching videos, social networking, playing games, networking and even managing a law practice). That is precisely the core of Google's new Web browser called Chrome.
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The e-Discovery Balancing Act
Progressive corporations are starting to treat e-discovery as any other standard corporate business process: repeatable, defensible and measurable. This new dynamic raises an obvious question: What portions of the e-discovery process are best suited to be "in-sourced," and how do IT professionals within an enterprise work with their partners to ensure effective collaboration/communication?
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Case Notes
Recent litigation of interest to you and your practice.
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Product Liability Litigation
The different ' sometimes even higher ' product standards required by non-American countries can adversely affect product protection here in the United States, as plaintiff's attorneys can use these discrepancies to their advantage in litigation against product manufacturers.
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Preemption Beyond Drugs and Medical Devices
Although the issue of Federal Preemption has grabbed the headlines in medical device and pharmaceutical cases, those analyzing preemption's impact on plaintiff's failure-to-warn claims on other types of products that are subject to federal regulation are significant for their varied results.
Practice Tip: A Litigator's Guide to the 'Siren Song' of 'Consumer Law' Class Actions
Statutory consumer-protection laws are rapidly displacing common law tort principles. Those behind this disturbing trend say that these lawsuits (typically class actions) represent a "different avenue of relief for a different type of injury." Most admit, however, that they are actually running consumer class actions for "risk of injury" because personal-injury class action torts are too difficult to certify.
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