LJN Newsletters

  • What's So Great About SharePoint?

    The popularity of SharePoint is undeniable. As the legal competitive landscape intensifies, more and more firms are looking to SharePoint to improve client service and collaboration. SharePoint allows law firms to store and locate critical information in convenient, flexible, sites, bringing it together in a meaningful way and enabling attorneys to become educated on industry trends and client concerns via the use of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and the like. Below is an outline of the key benefits of SharePoint to law firms of all sizes, and how firms can take advantage of these features.

    September 29, 2008Michael Savino

  • Lotus Platform Presents Unique Challenges In e-Discovery

    Lotus Notes is most commonly known as an e-mail and calendaring application often compared with Microsoft Exchange. However, Lotus Notes can be much more than just e-mail. The collection of Lotus-based data requires a carefully considered approach that can present interesting e-discovery challenges.

    September 29, 2008Amy Dove

  • NJ & CT News

    Important news and rulings from neighboring states.

    September 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Decisions of Interest

    Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

    September 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • New York's Post-Marital Compensation

    Last month, the author discussed the controversial proposal to replace New York's current maintenance scheme with "Post-Marital Income Guidelines." What follows is a critique of the proposed legislation, based in large measure on a report of the Legislative Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.

    September 29, 2008Alton L. Abramowitz

  • Prevent Your Tenant Mix from Turning Your Property into a 'REC'

    An increasing number of properties have been and continue to be classified as having some kind of recognized environmental condition. The REC classification arises from the EPA crackdown over the past few decades to ensure that property owners and the parties who are responsible for causing the contamination actually share in the cost and burden of the remediation process.

    September 29, 2008Am'lie H. Mailloux

  • Economic Abuse: A Form of Abuse That Needs More Scrutiny

    Domestic violence is now recognized to be coercive control, whether that control is exercised by physical violence, psychological abuse, or some other type of coercive act. Herein is the conclusion of this discussion.

    September 29, 2008Nancy S. Erickson

  • Judge Upholds Out-of-State Gay Unions

    A Bronx judge has upheld Gov. David Paterson's order that state executive-branch agencies recognize same-sex marriages solemnized outside of New York.

    September 29, 2008Noeleen G. Walder

  • Net News

    Online Music Agreement Reached
    Anti-Spam Law Is Unconstitutionally Broad

    September 29, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Novel Internet Statute Strategies

    The Internet presents special regulatory challenges. Any effective statute, for instance, must be prepared by an entity with the authority to draft, implement and, to some extent enforce, the statute. Efficacy, of course, hinges on jurisdiction, but the Internet knows no geography and, so, users leap boundaries with a finger poke or thumb flick. These challenges require novel statutory strategies to meet the Internet's current and future status as a channel and communications domain that requires regulation at various levels of operation and use

    September 29, 2008Jonathan Bick