Google: Done Paying Valley's Legal Bills
For most of the decade, Silicon Valley technology startups have assumed that Google would pay their legal bills. Not literally, mind you, but rather by taking on the big, high-profile cases about fair use, interoperability and other digital intellectual property issues that would set precedents upon which all disruptive innovators could rely. Well, Google just put the Valley on notice that the free ride is over, which means more legal burdens for smaller technology companies that previously depended on Google clearing a path for them.
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Whose Space? Discoverability of Social Networking Web Sites
This article explores a social networking site user's right to privacy, an adversary's right to obtain information from that site, and the admissibility of the information.
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<b><i>Product Review:</b></i> Clio, Effective SaaS Practice Management For the Small Firm
As a partner in a small firm, I must divide my time between servicing current clients, finding new ones and running the operational side of my small business. In addition, I have three children, so it is essential for me to be able to work from home and office interchangeably. Another challenge is that my client base requires me to travel frequently, which makes it imperative for me to have access to my client data wherever I am, day or night.
Integrating Multiple Systems: Making e-Billing Work
The concept behind electronic billing is that it is almost no additional work, that the invoice approval process is faster, and that the firm will get paid more quickly. Unfortunately, the reality of electronic billing is a little more complicated. Law firm clients often use different electronic billing systems, requiring the creation of customized invoice formats or manipulation of electronic files manually. As more clients continue to require electronic bills from their outside law firms, the challenge is in finding ways to more efficiently create and manage electronic invoices.
Web 2.0: Don't Miss the Big Picture
Web 2.0 is more than merely an upgrade of Web 1.0; rather, it is an evolutionary step toward a major change to the practice of law ' and the end of the bricks-and-mortar world of law firms as we know them today. The fact is that law firms spend the bulk of their fixed overhead in two areas: office space and personnel. One of these expenses, office space, can be dramatically reduced today; and personnel costs, especially on the support side, can be reduced today and dramatically reduced in just one more generation.
e-Discovery Compliance: Using Technology for Keyword Transparency and Defensibility
With the recent decision in <i>Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe</i>, corporations and law firms need to be concerned about ensuring that proper searching is done on electronically stored information more than ever before. However, most e-discovery software today, designed for processing and/or review, was designed more for enterprise search rather than for the specific use as an electronic discovery search tool.
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Nashville Bar Association Annual Entertainment Law in Review, featuring <i>Entertainment Law & Finance</i> Editor-in-Chief, Stan Soocher.
<b>Counsel Concerns:</b> TV Station Buyers Claim Law Firm Botched Deal
The owners of Spanish-language GenTV are suing four Holland & Knight partners, alleging the $48 million purchase price of a Key West, FL, television station was millions of dollars too high because of botched legal work.
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<b>Counsel Concerns:</b> Fed Court Denies Client's Impleader Against Counsel
A magistrate for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California decided that a copyright and trademark infringement defendant couldn't file an impleader action against his former lawyer for secondary or derivative liability.
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