Relationship Building, Part 3: Time Considerations
November 02, 2015
Attorneys are very busy people, often logging their time in six-minute increments. Where do they 'find' the time to get and stay in touch with everyone AND have the much-needed downtime?
Heightened Cybersecurity Concerns Impact IP Strategies
November 02, 2015
Recent widely reported cybersecurity breaches have further heightened awareness of the issue, which is of significantly increasing concern both to businesses and government. Government regulators have pressed for greater cybersecurity efforts ' with the FTC's authority in this area being recently upheld by the Third Circuit.
What Is the Cost of Marketing Complacency?
November 02, 2015
Regardless of the present economic conditions, your lawyers' practices (and by extension, your law firm) will grow and contract in relation to predictable economic cycles. While your lawyers' workloads may be overwhelming today, if not properly attended to, you could find the client list growing shorter and shorter, until, eventually, it is nonexistent.
Field-Based Intelligence
November 02, 2015
Has acceptance of technology-assisted review (TAR) finally turned a corner and earned broad acceptance in the legal community? Some recent comments by the influential and technology-savvy Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck would seem to indicate that TAR has moved beyond the controversial stage and entered into the mainstream of e-discovery practice.
Crazy for Fair Use
November 02, 2015
The Ninth Circuit has held that fair use is an exception to copyright law and not a defense, in the first federal appeals court ruling on this issue. The decision is the latest in the ongoing battle between plaintiff Stephanie Lenz and defendant Universal Music Corp. and affiliated companies (Universal). Starting in a rural kitchen in Pennsylvania, the case is now a landmark decision in copyright law that protects many home videographers.
