Law Firms Slow To Awaken to Cybersecurity Threats
March 29, 2010
Law firms have been targeted by a sophisticated network of overseas hackers looking to infiltrate computer systems in order to gather data or monitor attorney activity, according to attorneys and technology experts. Law firms have dealt quietly with cyberattacks for years, but lately those strikes appear to be on the rise.
Social Networking Sites Present Challenges for Copyright Protection
March 29, 2010
Many social networking site users are likely to be unaware of the potential copyright issues associated with posting such original works. Once the work is on the Internet, it must be assumed that it will be available to all parties, both intended and unintended. What legal remedies are available if somebody copies a photograph or video and uses it for his or her own purposes without the owner's consent?
The Virtual Company
March 29, 2010
Entrepreneurs have always chafed against the formalities and procedures demanded of them by their attorneys and, more generally, by business laws. Who hasn't had to keep reminding clients of the importance of signing and returning annual minutes ' again and again and again? This is even more so for the tech sector, and e-commerce founders. After all, they created an industry by thinking outside the proverbial "box," so why should their creativity be constrained by legal rules created for the age of the steam engine?
Blogging and Your Business
March 29, 2010
As a marketer, know that if your employees post a blog comment, or an entry on Facebook or Twitter about your company or its products, a number of questions are raised. Is your company responsible for what is said?
Electronic Data Breaches
March 29, 2010
There are a few judicial decisions indicating the likely issues on which a coverage dispute will focus when a claim for a data breach is made under a CGL policy.
Law Firm Intelligence: CI on the Internet
March 29, 2010
Looking for information on a rival law firm? Trying to get some background on a prospective client? The Internet is full of useful resources that can meet your needs.
Finders/Keepers
March 29, 2010
Assume that your client has been sued by a former employee, and that a post-termination electronic search of the employee's laptop uncovers e-mails to legal counsel. Now what?
Blogging and Your Business
March 29, 2010
As in-house counsel, if your employees post a blog comment, or an entry on Facebook or Twitter about your company or its products, a number of questions are raised. Is the company responsible?
The Battle of Experts
March 29, 2010
The first installment of this article discussed how facts and opinions are not the only things a jury considers in deciding the outcome of a medical malpractice case; jurors also pay close attention to large and small gaffes that may show an expert is biased. How can you best exploit these lapses when showing that the other side's experts are less reliable than they might appear?
The Internet Has Diminished Privacy Expectations and Torts
March 29, 2010
Blogs, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter) and news sites, when accessible via search engines (Google) and other Internet data-mining applications, afford the public astounding access to previously inaccessible information about other people, with unprecedented speed and accuracy. By doing so, the Internet is changing society's expectation of privacy and, as a result, reducing the prevalence of what is perceived to be an actionable privacy violation, and actions about and awards for these.
