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Cisco Legal Increases Efficiency
An ongoing challenge of Cisco Legal's priority to deliver value efficiently to its business customers is the need to facilitate intra- as well as inter-departmental collaboration with outside counsel and business partners and customers.
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Data Loss Prevention: A Concept in Motion
The current economic climate, along with portable devices and the mobility of today's workforce, has truly created the perfect storm ' exacerbating DLP issues and expanding the definition of DLP and related needs beyond the piecemeal technology offerings currently available. Preventative steps like ethical walls can easily be applied to stored data ' but data in use is the true risk to address.
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Twittering in Federal Court
Some federal judges are opening the door to the press reporting directly from their courtrooms in the interest of bringing more transparency to the judicial process.
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Existing Internet Laws Reduce Constitutional Protections
Internet communication necessitates sharing content and data with third parties. The voluntary transfer of such content and related data to third-party Internet communication facilitators reduces or eliminates First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Internet users. The technology and protocols used to enable Internet communication, as interpreted by existing privacy statutes and case law, further compromises Internet users' privacy and publicity rights. Both legal notices and technological techniques may be used to ameliorate this outcome.
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Trademark Protection in Cyberspace Rescued
A recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, <i>Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc.</i>, has clarified precedent that had been assumed to foreclose Lanham Act challenges to the surreptitious use of trademarks to compete in cyberspace. In the wake of <i>Rescuecom</i>, that interpretation has been rejected, and advertisers have a potent weapon to protect their trademarks against unfair competition on the Web.
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Social Media Policies: Your Firm Needs One
Being engaged in social networks has enormous value for your firm. Through them, you can establish thought leadership, find new recruits, provide a more efficient way for potential clients to find you online, and participate in and monitor discussions about the issues that impact your clients and your firm. The first thing you must do is create a social media policy ' or modify an existing policy that is free and available for you to borrow.
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Media & Communications Corner: Channel the Information Deluge into Knowledge You Can Use
Proven shortcuts that will help you channel the flood of incessant information coming your way.
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The Little License That Could: Dangers of Using Open-Source Code After Jacobsen v. Katzer
Although the open-source movement has been active for more than a decade, it is only in recent months that such a copyright license actually has received the imprimatur of enforceability ' from an unlikely court (the Federal Circuit) construing a perhaps unlikely license (the Java Model Railroad Interface for model train software).
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Put Technology to Work for Your Firm
Today's tough economy finds many firms searching for new ways to improve profitability by increasing leverage through the use of technology. Preserving a competitive edge is crucial and can mean the difference between success or failure. Investing in the right technology, and the efficient use thereof, could help your firm weather or even thrive during the tough times ahead.
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Is Your e-Communication Being Read?
Any way you look at it, e-communication gives you and your firm exposure in an existing or potential client market. Unlike other communication delivery methods, e-communication is the one place a law firm can actually see specific results ' from who received the communication, to whether that person actually viewed the e-mail or forwarded it on to someone else.
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