Technology Media and Telecom

  • Online Extra $123 Million 'Revenge Porn' Suit Filed Against Facebook

    A Houston woman filed a $123 million 'revenge porn' lawsuit against Facebook Inc. and a former 'friend,' alleging that the ex-friend launched an objectionable 'imposter' Facebook site under her name and that Facebook took months to deactivate the site, despite her repeated requests.

    August 29, 2014Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

  • Aereo Analysis: What Does the U.S. Sup. Ct.'s Ruling Mean?

    In June, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court held that Aereo's streaming service ' which allowed customers to view over-the-air TV broadcasts via the Internet ' violated the broadcasters' public performance right under the Copyright Act. Applying what the dissent derided as "an improvised standard ('looks-like-cable-TV')," the majority held that Aereo infringed copyrights owned by the television networks.

    August 02, 2014Mitchell Zimmerman

  • If You're Not on Facebook, You're Committing Malpractice

    Imagine you're cross-examining a witness about a phone call, but you've never used a telephone before. Ridiculous, right? But is it any different than wading into a new client matter where social media communications are at issue without having ever used social media?

    August 02, 2014Josh King

  • Phila. Bar Association Issues Guidelines on Social Media Use

    A recent Philadelphia Bar Association ethics opinion detailing how lawyers may instruct their clients on the use of social media provides greater clarity to lawyers caught in the middle of a constantly "evolving" digital landscape, some attorneys said.

    August 02, 2014P.J. D'Annunzio

  • New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks

    Recent advances in technology assisted review (what I call "TAR 2.0") include the ability to deal with low richness, rolling collections, and flexible inputs in addition to vast improvements in speed. These improvements now allow TAR to be used effectively in many more discovery workflows than its traditional "TAR 1.0" use in classifying large numbers of documents for production.

    August 02, 2014Mark Noel

  • Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms

    The law firm records management industry has been evolving to an information governance framework. The records function within the firm has traditionally been more of a back-end function, with the idea that everything was created in paper, made into an official record, indexed and hopefully regulated by retention schedules.

    August 02, 2014Johan T. Widjaja

  • Is It a 'Cyberattack' or a 'Data-Breach Incident'?

    This article goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how to respond to a data-breach incident, and offers some lessons learned from the frontlines of the cybersecurity war to help companies successfully navigate the legal and public-relations minefield that ensues.

    August 02, 2014Mark Mermelstein, Antony Kim and Robert Uriarte

  • Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo

    In ABC v. Aereo, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Second Circuit's holding that Aereo did not directly infringe the copyright owners' public performance rights through the operation of the "Watch Now" function of its service.

    August 02, 2014J. Alexander Lawrence