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When law firms recruit, train, evaluate and promote lawyers, what ideal do they have in mind? What model of lawyer performance are they pursuing: what balance of knowledge, skills and capabilities, work management, ethics, character and commitment, client service and business development? Attempting to put into words our notion of successful performance is a prerequisite to consistency in how we recruit, train, evaluate and promote. It would also appear to be a pre-requisite to fairness and effectiveness in setting expectations among new lawyers and helping them achieve those expectations.
Recent developments of note in the Internet industry.This month:<p>FTC Spotlights Proposals on Peer-to-Peer Risks <br>Record Industry Sues 754 For Internet Song Swaps<br>Google Wins Trademark Suit Over Advertising Policy
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear one of the most important commercial cases to reach the Court in decades. <i>MGM v. Grokster</i> raises a copyright challenge to the Internet-based services that enable millions of users around the world to swap digital copies of sound recordings and movies with a few clicks of a mouse. At stake is the legitimacy of our copyright system in the digital age.
Case law in 2004 in the area of Internet communications has something in common with the hurricane season that recently ended: It has been an unusually active year.
The Supreme Court late last year appeared hostile toward state barriers that impede interstate wine sales, likely foreshadowing a win for small wineries in their long battle against the system that controls sales of alcoholic beverages nationwide.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a not-for-profit, public-private partnership focused on driving awareness and promoting education of cyber security, and NCSA member America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, recently released the results of one of the largest and most comprehensive in-home studies ever conducted on the security of computer users.
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The growing importance of the Internet as an advertising and distribution medium has dramatically increased the globalization of trademark problems. That fine cafe you enjoyed in Portofino last summer can now post a Web site to promote its specialty products to customers in Pasadena virtually overnight. <br>Our legal system, built on precedent, understandably lags behind these economic and technological forces. Nevertheless, the legal response to globalization in recent years has been quietly dramatic. Two recent cases suggest new options for business and intellectual property counsel seeking to enforce and protect their clients' rights.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled that the heirs of the half-sister of blues musician Robert Johnson may proceed with their suit for ownership of the only two photographs of the legendary artist.
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Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.