Progressive corporations are starting to treat e-discovery as any other standard corporate business process: repeatable, defensible and measurable. This new dynamic raises an obvious question: What portions of the e-discovery process are best suited to be "in-sourced," and how do IT professionals within an enterprise work with their partners to ensure effective collaboration/communication?
Technology innovations in legal practice will become standard as the author's generation moves into management and leadership roles. Here's why.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that The Rolling Stones' tour management company didn't breach the exclusivity terms of an agreement for use of Stones intellectual properties in conjunction with the planned development of a limited-edition Blackberry smartphone
The first part of this article discussed several different contexts in which changing technology is affecting the workplace and presenting new, and sometimes unique, challenges to Human Resources professionals. The conclusion herein discusses ways to protect a company's assets.
Hogan & Hartson Wins MySpace Ruling
e-Discovery Firm's Counsel Wins Case Study Contest
FTC Stops Business That Used the Web To Peddle Cancer 'Cures'
More Time Allowed for Comments on Proposed Changes to Ad Guides
Especially for e-commerce attorneys ' who have quickly adapted to doing all of their business chained to a computer monitor ' in-person networking is becoming a lost art. Even if you may very well be doing the right thing in attending networking events, you may not be doing the thing right well.
This article explores a social networking site user's right to privacy, an adversary's right to obtain information from that site, and the admissibility of the information.
In today's BlackBerry-driven, online business world, losing one's e-mail ' and access to other online forms of communication ' has to be worse than REM's fear of losing one's religion. Yet that is just the fate that may await our next President, who has already publicly confessed (on national television, no less, though you can certainly find the story on the Internet) his steadfast inability to shake his smoking addiction under the stress of a Presidential campaign.
Jeffrey Weinstein's client was so outraged by the deposition testimony in her fraud suit against a Houston car dealership that Weinstein posted an excerpt from the deposition on YouTube and put a link to the video on his firm's Web site. But the video isn't on YouTube anymore. Although law professors say lawyers can, under most circumstances, do what they want with deposition testimony, the defendant in the litigation secured a court order on Dec. 3 that forced Weinstein to take down the video on the ground that it wasn't a public record.
