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How to Obtain Social Media Data For Defending Lawsuits

Emily T. Acosta & Eric P. Conn

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.

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New York's Insurance Notice Statute and Contractual Choice of Law

Michael T. Sharkey

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.

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Alimony Reform in 2014: A Review

Jennifer Presti

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.

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Cybersecurity Practices Booming In Era of the Breach

Gina Passarella & David Gialanella

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.

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Lawyer, Code Thyself

Dan Lear

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.

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Technology for Meaningful Legal Collaboration

Catherine McPherson

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.

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e-Discovery Unfiltered

Ari Kaplan

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:

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Time Tracker by eBillity

Josh F. Young

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.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> FTC Cracks Down on Online Reviews Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> FTC Cracks Down on Online Reviews

Jenna Greene

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.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> Ninth Circuit Agrees to Revisit Ruling in Model Rape Case Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> Ninth Circuit Agrees to Revisit Ruling in Model Rape Case

Scott Graham

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.

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