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Signing, dating and keeping a record of a paper contract are standard practice. However, that standard practice does not easily translate to online legal agreements ' the agreements that are native to websites, mobile apps and other digital platforms such as "Terms of Use," "Terms of Service," "Privacy Policies" and disclaimers.

More than a year after a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a controversial and roundly criticized decision in Garcia v. Google that an actress appearing in a five-second segment of a film could use copyright law to force YouTube to remove the film from its website, the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc has rejected the panel's decision.

The Northern District of California is dubbed the "Food Court" for the hundreds of false-advertising, food-labeling class actions filed there in recent years, now averaging one per week. These lawsuits are brought on behalf of consumers who allege that buyers of various food and beverage products are harmed because they consume products with labels promoting specific attributes or claims such as "better for you" or "all natural."

Information governance requires a firm-wide approach for managing and protecting client information. By taking a proactive approach and laying out the business case through the measurement of the return on investment of information governance, law firms realize significant savings, improve client service and minimize risk.

Although seemingly dry, the few cases heretofore that have confronted questions surrounding misrepresenting takedown notices have contained facts that are arguably ripped from the tabloids, including a bitter dispute between bloggers over the proper method of childbirth, and a kerfuffle arising from the wider publication of the views of a pro-straight pride organization in the U.K.

Discrimination claims based upon an employer's failure to promote or hire remain among the more difficult claims for employees. Employees seeking to demonstrate discriminatory animus must demonstrate both comparable qualifications to the selected candidate and pretext in the decision-making process.

Storing and sharing data "in the cloud" has become, in many instances, a business necessity. The practical and economic advantages of cloud computing are clear ' it eliminates the need to send client data via traditional, costly methods, and is significantly less expensive than building and maintaining the same data storage capacity in-house.

Describing the collateral for an all-assets lien intuitively might seem easy. However, getting collateral descriptions correct under the rules of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has challenged secured lenders for decades, and all-assets liens are no exception. A look at two recent cases.