Features
How to Obtain Social Media Data For Defending Lawsuits
Obtaining social media user content under most circumstances is extremely difficult ' unless you use the correct strategy. Simply sending discovery requests without a basic understanding of the information available is a fool's errand. It is pivotal that a practitioner who wants to conduct formal discovery of social media user content understand how each site stores and communicates its data.
Features
New York's Insurance Notice Statute and Contractual Choice of Law
Two recent decisions have held that despite an express choice-of-law clause selecting New York law to apply to an insurance policy, a policyholder is not entitled to the protection of New York's statute requiring an insurance company to show prejudice before coverage is forfeited on the grounds of late notice, unless the policy was also issued or delivered in New York. This article provides an analysis.
Features
Alimony Reform in 2014: A Review
After almost three years of legislative debate over proposed versions of the law, alimony reform has now come to New Jersey. This article reviews the reform of the New Jersey Alimony Statute, and discusses how those changes compare with the reform of alimony laws in other states.
Features
Cybersecurity Practices Booming In Era of the Breach
The cybersecurity woes of companies like Target and Sony in 2014 and Anthem last month have meant a busy start to 2015 for law firm data-privacy and security practices.
Features
Lawyer, Code Thyself
Chances are you don't need to be convinced of the merits of learning to program or, in the parlance of today's startup culture, learning "to code." You already understand not only the professional opportunities it opens but also how it empowers you to solve your own problems. As software disrupts industry after industry, the winners will be either those writing the code or those who understand enough about coding to organize others to do it.
Technology for Meaningful Legal Collaboration
Current discussions of electronic discovery and legal technology often focus on strategies for managing large volumes of data as it is funneled through different phases of the EDRM. Yet an important part of the discovery process ' case analysis and legal strategy ' has been a niche left unaddressed by traditional technologies.
e-Discovery Unfiltered
Between Jan. 6-22, 2015, Ari Kaplan Advisors interviewed 29 professionals responsible for e-discovery decision-making. We asked them for their perspectives on key vendor management trends, and for their candid impressions of the following 15 companies:
Features
Time Tracker by eBillity
For more than a decade we tracked our lawyers' time and generated bills using various iterations of Sage Timeslips, which ran on a backend server tucked away in our office. But over the last several years, we noticed Timeslips began to slow down. It reached the point that time tracking and billing, an unpleasant and time-consuming distraction at the best of times, became far more painful than it needed to be.
Features
<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> FTC Cracks Down on Online Reviews
A company that touted its online reviews without mentioning that it gave customers who wrote them a discount settled deceptive advertising charges with the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 27.
Features
<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> Ninth Circuit Agrees to Revisit Ruling in Model Rape Case
With urging from Facebook, Craigslist, eBay and others, the Ninth Circuit has agreed to reconsider a controversial ruling about website operators' duty to warn about potential harm by third parties.
Need Help?
- Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
- Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
- Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About ItWhy is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?Read More ›
- Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the RoughThere is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.Read More ›
- Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand OwnersBlockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.Read More ›
- Trying to Determine Rights in Pre-1972 Sound RecordingsAudio recordings of speech, musical instruments or any other sounds created before Feb. 15, 1972, are treated very differently from other recorded sounds under U.S. law. Each of the 50 states is free to apply its own rules to the protection of audio sound recordings made before Feb. 15, 1972, and may continue to do so for the next 54 years. As a consequence, the scope of protection for pre-1972 sound recordings is inconsistent from state to state, often vague and sometimes difficult to discern.Read More ›
- Disavowals of Liability Do Not Disembowel Coverage: Liability Settlements and Insurance CoverageLiability insurance policies apply where the insured is liable for bodily injury, property damage, or wrongful acts (depending on the policy). What happens, however, when the policyholder denies that any injury or wrongdoing took place? Does that mean that insurance is not applicable?Read More ›