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Obama Weighs In To Favor Net Neutrality
President Obama, saying he is fulfilling a promise he made during his 2008 presidential campaign, stepped onto the "net neutrality" battlefield on Nov. 10 by releasing a statement (complete with video) calling on theFCC to adopt rules that prevent Internet service providers from charging more for faster online access and that "protect net neutrality."
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Defining Protected Activity Under SOX
In <I>Nielsen v. AECOM Technology</I>, the Second Circuit became the latest circuit to hold that employees need not "definitively and specifically" identify a particular securities law or category of fraud in order to be protected from retaliation. This is a significant victory for employees.
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Unmanned Aircraft Opportunities and Risks
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technology has reached critical mass. There are now very sophisticated aircraft that are easy to fly, cost less than a new television, and have the ability to record and broadcast video and other data. While this may sound like a classic American success story, there is a fundamental problem: Most of this activity is illegal in the U.S.
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The Paper-to-Digital Law Firm
Even though the costs and inefficiencies of paper records are an obvious strain on the law firm business model, law firms struggle with less-paper initiatives for one key reason: according to ILTA members informally surveyed in over 20 cities domestically, about half of today's attorneys would still prefer to work with paper, even if the entire file is digitally available from the DMS.
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New Trends for Managing Privilege In e-Discovery
As any corporation or law firm will attest, the cost of litigation continues to rise and with it the need to identify efficient solutions while maintaining transparency and defensibility. Document review, specifically, has long burdened litigation budgets; however, recent trends in the acceptance of technology integration and more advanced managed review workflows is taking root in the legal landscape.
The Case Against Native Application Review of e-Mail
Cost conscious lawyers and clients sometimes choose to conduct pre-production review of client e-mail in a native e-mail application. Their goal is to cut e-discovery costs by avoiding the data processing and data hosting fees associated with using a dedicated EDD database review tool. Unfortunately, native application review brings with it risks of spoliation and malware infection.
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Proactive Information Governance
Information governance (IG) is how organizations tackle growing data volumes ' identifying what's important, what isn't, and what to do with it all.
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<B><I>BREAKING NEWS</i></b>Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Kansas Same-Sex Marriages
Over the dissent of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court on November 12 allowed same-sex marriages to go forward in Kansas.
<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> Sixth Circuit Upholds Laws Banning Same-Sex Marriage
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on November 6 reversed a series of lower court rulings that had struck down bans on same-sex marriage. Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for the majority, said the question of whether to allow same-sex marriage shouldn't be decided by the courts.
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<b><i>Online Special Report</b></i> 'No Need to Rush': As State Bans on Same-sex Marriage Continue to Fall, the Supreme Court Dodges the Issue (for Now)
On the first day of its new Term, the Supreme Court declined to take up any of the cases before it in which state same-sex marriage bans had been struck down by lower courts. To the surprise of many Court watchers, the Justices denied certiorari in the cases, which stemmed from the Fourth, Seventh and Tenth Circuits. As a result, same-sex couples were immediately able to marry in five more states: Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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