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Phila. Bar Association Issues Guidelines on Social Media Use

P.J. D'Annunzio

A recent Philadelphia Bar Association ethics opinion detailing how lawyers may instruct their clients on the use of social media provides greater clarity to lawyers caught in the middle of a constantly "evolving" digital landscape, some attorneys said.

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The EU 'Right to Be Forgotten' Google Judgment

Andre Bywater, Jonathan Armstrong

In mid-May, the European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice, handed down a controversial landmark ruling in a matter commonly referred to as the "right to be forgotten" case, concerning Google. Here's what it means to U.S. businesses.

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Case Notes

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Discussion of an interesting case from New York

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Workplace Bullying

Nicholas Woodfield & R. Scott Oswald

There is currently no law, either at the federal or the state level, targeted to fight workplace bullying. Thus, the laws available to victims of bullying are the traditional protections against harassment and discrimination based on membership in some protected category.

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John Travolta Denied Dismissal of Suit By His Former Pilot

Marisa Kendall

It will take more than an anti-SLAPP motion to bring down a suit filed against John Travolta by the movie star's former pilot, the California Court of Appeal, Second District ruled.

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Entitlement to a Credit for a Settlement Reached in Another Jurisdiction

Robert E. Spitzer & Thomas J. Pyle, Jr.

This article addresses the dynamics of New Jersey's Collateral Source doctrine and defendant physician's entitlement to a credit for a settlement that a plaintiff reached in another jurisdiction.

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New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks

Mark Noel

Recent advances in technology assisted review (what I call "TAR 2.0") include the ability to deal with low richness, rolling collections, and flexible inputs in addition to vast improvements in speed. These improvements now allow TAR to be used effectively in many more discovery workflows than its traditional "TAR 1.0" use in classifying large numbers of documents for production.

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Immigration Compliance

Irina B. Plumlee

With the dire and obvious need for immigration reform and the equally obvious slow move toward adopting a comprehensive solution, some companies choose to put immigration compliance on the back burner. Bad idea.

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Prior Documents May Affect a New Lease

Mark Morfopoulos

Always check to make sure prior documents signed by your client do not affect the new lease you are about to finalize. An attorney who fails to heed this warning may be unintentionally ignoring restrictions or prohibitions contained in these prior agreements and expose his/her client to unnecessary litigation by parties seeking to enforce such contracts.

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Ethics of Settlement: Restricting Plaintiff's Counsel from Representing Future Claimants

Jennifer Smith Finnegan

Rules of professional conduct of all 50 states include an express prohibition against a lawyer participating in making ' or even offering ' an agreement in which restriction on a lawyer's right to practice law is part of the settlement of a client controversy. A look at a hypothetical case.

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