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Two New Jersey defense lawyers have been hit with ethics charges for having used Facebook in an unfriendly fashion.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reinstated statutory damages of more than $220,000 against a woman who illegally file-shared two dozen songs, finding the damages to be constitutional.

In a world driven by technology yet somehow tied down by the fear of change, I found myself committed to making Miller, Kagan, Rodriguez & Silver (MKRS) stand out as a productive mobile practice ' one that could reap all the benefits of technology but maintain camaraderie, efficiency and productivity.

For many firms, the time has come to ask a similar question about litigation data that they asked about the mailroom: Should we step up our infrastructure investments to host all of our own software tools and client matter files, or should we explore alternative options for outsourcing this crucial function?

The question of whether a defendant had willfully infringed a patent has typically been decided by a jury. However, under Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.L. Gore & Assoc., a judge may now have the exclusive role of determining whether a jury is entitled to decide this question.

So-called Intellectual Property exclusions in commercial general liability ("GL") insurance policies have received relatively little attention from the courts. However, the ubiquity of new advertising technologies, recent appellate decisions confirming GL "personal and advertising injury" coverage for patent claims, and new claims that policyholders are facing for alleged electronic invasions of privacy may well turn the IP exclusion into the proverbial "elephant in the room.

Recent matters have pushed the topic of technology assisted review (TAR) into the judicial limelight, generating much discussion ' and confusion ' in the legal community.

When used in a conscious and planned manner, social networking sites can offer a number of benefits to the firm as well as individual attorneys and staff.