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.
November 25, 2008Ronald J. Levine and Susan L. Swatski-Lebson
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.
November 25, 2008Catherine Merino ReismanThe 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.
November 25, 2008Peter SecorWeb 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.
November 25, 2008Jay M. JaffeWith the recent decision in Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe, 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.
November 25, 2008Todd M. HaleyCrew Member Injury/Employee Status
Merchandising Rights/Film Remakes
Trademark Infringement/First Amendment DefenseNovember 25, 2008Stan SoocherNashville Bar Association Annual Entertainment Law in Review, featuring Entertainment Law & Finance Editor-in-Chief, Stan Soocher.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |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.
November 25, 2008Billy ShieldsA 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.
November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |SoundExchange originated as a division of the RIAA and was spun off as a separate group in 2000 to collect and distribute digital performance royalties. It's the only agency authorized to do so. Today, it represents more than 3,500 record companies and more than 6,000 labels and their artists. Michael Huppe, general counsel for SoundExchange, says music labels and artists will increasingly depend on the performance royalties SoundExchange distributes to survive.
November 25, 2008Amy Miller