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  • An Internet Service Provider (ISP) can legally search the e-mail that it processes. ISPs may lawfully search the content of users' e-mails for many purposes, including assisting law enforcement, ensuring compliance with the ISP's terms-of-use agreement and protecting the ISP from legal difficulties, to name a few. Such activities do not currently constitute an invasion of the e-mail user's privacy.

    November 28, 2011Jonathan Bick
  • In mid-November, a number of corporations joined in the debate and lobbying over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a new piece of legislation introduced in October by House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) that is being considered by that committee.

    November 28, 2011Brian Glaser and Steven Salkin
  • Given the possibility of impersonation and digital fabrication in the online world, the information displayed on social media profiles is not immediately verifiable and presents issues of authentication and admissibility under the Federal Rules of Evidence.

    November 28, 2011Richard Raysman and Peter Brown
  • Retail e-commerce activity was up ' barely ' in the third quarter from the second quarter of the year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced in mid-November in its four-times-a-year report of total and electronic-commerce retailing.

    November 28, 2011Michael Lear-Olimpi
  • In mid-November, a number of corporations joined in the debate and lobbying over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a new piece of legislation introduced in October by House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) that is being considered by that committee.

    November 28, 2011Brian Glaser and Steven Salkin
  • As social media and mobile devices and apps continue to proliferate in the corporate enterprise, and e-commerce firms rely evermore on these technologies to assist promotion and sales, these forms of collaboration and information-sharing are putting a new spin on compliance issues.

    November 28, 2011David White
  • Everyone in the tech economy mourned the recent passing of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Even in an era of sweeping technological change, his innovations disrupted many business models well beyond Apple's own product markets. But only time will tell if he properly handled a challenge that faces every entrepreneur: succession.

    November 28, 2011Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
  • Increasingly popular, Cloud computing nevertheless raises new and challenging legal issues for both cloud computing users and vendors.

    November 22, 2011Andrew L. Goldstein
  • It's probably not a stretch to say that e-mail has been the single biggest factor in the creation of the electronic discovery industry as we know it today. e-Mail has been seen as almost synonymous with e-discovery, in many ways to the detriment of other valuable forms of ESI. But, that race has tightened up.

    October 28, 2011Dean Gonsowski
  • Cross-reference is a powerful tool in guiding your reader to specific locations in a document. When using the Cross-reference feature, always keep the reader in mind and create those references to make navigating throughout the document as straightforward as possible.

    October 28, 2011Sue Hughes