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.
A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals
March 29, 2010
Cloud computing has become the technology buzzword of the new decade. The idea, as e-commerce and tech-company (or tech-savvy) counsel may know, is to use a multilayered network of servers and computers to provide computing and hosting power when needed ' sort of a front-end and back-office supplement and backup system without much of the in-house worries that go with those investments in IT structure.
In the Courts
March 26, 2010
Important rulings of interest to you and your practice.
<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Third Circuit Bars Prosecution Threat for Teen 'Sexting'
March 18, 2010
In the first case ever to challenge the constitutionality of prosecuting teens for 'sexting,' a federal appeals court has upheld an injunction that barred a Pennsylvania prosecutor from bringing child pornography charges against girls who refused to attend a class he had designed to educate youths about the dangers of sexting.
