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Backup Tape Restorations: Back To The Present
February 28, 2006
One major concern in e-discovery is restoring backup tapes of data that may be needed for litigation, or other purposes. <br>Backup tape restoration can be a costly and time-consuming aspect of any litigation or investigation. Your client may have spent several years creating backup tapes, and now you have only days to locate and restore them.
Planning For The Inevitable
February 28, 2006
People who negotiate tech deals and draft contracts for legal or other services ' such as partnerships and the instruments that monitor them and give them teeth ' must remember one constant in today's ever-changing world: The technology we depend on every day often does not work. <br>As a result, the traditional wisdom, "failing to plan is planning to fail," has been transformed into a rule of thumb for the tech sector: "plan for failure." Firms that do not explicitly anticipate systems failure run the risk of being unprepared for a catastrophe
e-Discovery Docket Sheet
February 28, 2006
Recent court rulings in e-discovery.
Another Kind Of Room With A View
February 28, 2006
Ramping up for document-review is a challenging prospect, requiring a firm to react quickly and aggressively, depending on the requirements of the case. The timeline for reviews can be extremely long, requiring attorneys to spend months sifting through information or very short, at times requiring firms to use contract attorneys to scale up to several times their original staffs' size to meet deadlines. <br>Vendors are offering off-site document-review rooms (DRRs) more frequently for customers who see the value these resources provide, and the DRR market is expanding.
Arbitration Update
February 28, 2006
Recent cases on the enforcement and requirement of arbitration disputes.
Bit Parts
February 28, 2006
Motion Pictures/DefamationThe U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found that the 1970 film "A Man Called Horse" didn't defame the plaintiff,…
Calif. Justices Consider Words Of TV Writers
February 28, 2006
The justices of the California Supreme Court recently seemed inclined to keep their fingers out of the creative process that helped breathe life into the characters on the TV sitcom "Friends." The court had been asked to rule whether the show writers' sexually crude comments and simulations while hashing out TV scripts could constitute sexual harassment serious enough to cause a hostile work environment, especially for women and minorities.
Clause & Effect
February 28, 2006
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the owner of an interest in a song failed to show that he reasonably relied on an alleged materially false representation regarding the transfer of his interest in the song ' and thus failed to establish his fraud claim.
<b>Decision of Note:</b> Station Cleared In Fan Death Over Spears Interview
February 28, 2006
The New York Appellate Division, Third Department, ordered summary dismissal of a suit over a fan who died after chasing a Britney Spears impersonator outside a radio station.
Courthouse Steps
February 28, 2006
Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

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