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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> LinkedIn Reaches Deal in Privacy Litigation Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> LinkedIn Reaches Deal in Privacy Litigation

Lisa Hoffman

A security breach that opened more than 6 million passwords to online viewing and spawned a putative class action will cost LinkedIn Corp. $1.25 million to settle.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> $123 Million 'Revenge Porn' Suit Filed Against Facebook Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> $123 Million 'Revenge Porn' Suit Filed Against Facebook

Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

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.

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Protecting the IP in Social Media Image

Protecting the IP in Social Media

John M. Persinger

How much would your company pay for a "like" on Facebook?

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<i>Aereo</i> Analysis: What Does the U.S. Sup. Ct.'s Ruling Mean? Image

<i>Aereo</i> Analysis: What Does the U.S. Sup. Ct.'s Ruling Mean?

Mitchell Zimmerman

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.

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

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

Josh King

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?

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Phila. Bar Association Issues Guidelines on Social Media Use Image

Phila. Bar Association Issues Guidelines on Social Media Use

P.J. D'Annunzio

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.

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

New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks

Mark Noel

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.

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Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms Image

Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms

Johan T. Widjaja

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.

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

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

Mark Mermelstein, Antony Kim & Robert Uriarte

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.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Image

Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo

J. Alexander Lawrence

In <i>ABC v. Aereo</i>, 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.

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