LJN Newsletters

  • Practice Tip: Rule 34's Direct Access Provision

    Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits a party to 'inspect, copy, test, or sample any designated documents or electronically stored information.' However, what exactly does that mean for corporate litigants? Can a plaintiff demand to show up at a client's offices and expect a seat in front of a keyboard? Will a client be forced to hire a third party to copy its hard drives — online shopping Web history and all — and hand them over to the opponent?

    December 27, 2007Mary Clare Bonaccorsi, Mark Brennan and JP Benitez

  • Nanotechnology: Law and Business at One-Billionth of a Meter

    Nanotechnology represents a vast frontier for science, business, and law. Already governments and corporations are sinking an estimated $10 billion annually into nanotechnology R&D, and economic forecasters are predicting that nanotechnology will account for some 15% of all global manufacturing output by 2014 ' commerce valued at some $2.6 trillion. The plaintiff's bar, mass torts, and class actions cannot be too far behind such words.

    December 27, 2007David L. Wallace and Nicholas Booke

  • The Leasing Hotline

    Highlights of the latest commercial leasing cases from around the country.

    December 27, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • The Evolution of Matter-Centricity to Address Business Management Needs

    The movement from unstructured content management to matter-centric 'electronic matter files' in document management systems continues to be an important technology migration process in the legal industry worldwide. An organization's implementation of, or movement to, matter-centricity is not a merely a technology project. It is a business process project, and actually a collection of business process opportunities.

    December 21, 2007David E. Kiefer

  • Decisions of Interest

    Recent rulngs of interest to you and your practice.

    December 21, 2007ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Interpreting and Applying the Hague Convention

    Last month, the authors discussed the law in the U.S. and beyond pertaining to the establishment of a child's habitual residence. The next issue to cover, once habitual residence of the child has been established, is whether or not the petitioning party has a right to custody of the child in question.

    December 21, 2007Bari Brandes Corbin and Evan B. Brandes