Features
Melanie J. Scroble
No party may assign this agreement: If this is the clause in an agreement of sale, the negotiating attorneys have not sufficiently protected their clients' interests.
Features
Marsha Anderson Bomar
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David S. Lima
New approaches to parking are offering retailers and developers greater flexibility and the opportunity to reduce costs and environmental impacts.
Features
Todd Ruger
Congress is once again pushing forward on a controversial bill to bolster the nation's cybersecurity, which could end up changing how law firms and their clients respond to online threats. The House passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) on April 18, sending the legislation to the Senate. The bill would allow 'cybersecurity entities' ' an intentionally broad term that includes law firms and business that they represent ' to share cyber threat information'
Features
Donna Seyle
The use of predictive coding in e-discovery answers the need to automate document review for discovery purposes. Why is automation of this process now so necessary? Because Big Data is upon us, and the legal profession is as much affected by this mountain of information as is business. We need automation to make our way through this.
Features
Alan Feller
Social networking has become the primary means of sharing knowledge and information for increasing numbers of individuals and organizations. Traditionally, businesses ' and law firms especially ' have been more concerned with the potential risks of adopting social network models into their workflows than with the potential profit-impacting benefits on their organizations.
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Liz Lamar
Turning time into money begins with the metrics a firm has in place, whether the key performance indicators are being measured and tracked, and how technology is being leveraged to streamline the entire process. technology plays a vital role in not only monitoring and 'policing' these metrics, but financial management and billing technology in particular, can always be tweaked and customized to better firm metrics ' especially as they relate to firm utilization, realization, and A/R aging.
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David Hartmann
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Scott Giordano
When corporate legal and IT departments deploy new enterprise software, migrating legacy data into the new system is usually one of the larger challenges faced. When it comes to e-discovery software, this challenge is exasperated as matter information may be contained in legacy systems or in a collection of spreadsheets or other ad hoc tools.
Columns & Departments
Howard J. Shire
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Bradley Roush
Highlights of the latest intellectual property cases from around the country.
Ron Dolin
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Nancy Situ
The legal framework of data privacy, though certainly in flux, has come a long way over the past few decades. Given a recent New York court decision, perhaps we should consider another right one might reasonably associate with privacy: the right of standing.
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Sheri Qualters
Aereo Inc.'s pitch is this: With one of its tiny antennas, no bigger than a dime, viewers can watch television through the Internet. But this is erupting into a litigation nightmare for broadcasters. The fight boils down to whether the broadcasters' copyrights for their shows give them control over how the shows are distributed.
