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EU Parliament Overhauls Consumer Data Protection

Angela Hunt

Everyone, especially corporate leaders, got a little paranoid last year when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden pulled the alarm on U.S. surveillance. That paranoia turned into palpable risk after reports emerged of the NSA tapping the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and executives at a Brazilian oil company.

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LinkedIn Post Likely Didn't Violate Non-Compete Clause

Sheri Qualters

A LinkedIn profile update alerting a user's contacts about her new job did not necessarily constitute a solicitation of business that ran afoul of her non-compete agreement, a Massachusetts trial judge has ruled.

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Your e-Discovery Bucket List

David Boyhan & Sanjay Manocha

One of the most persistent problems encountered in e-discovery is that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. As a result, in-house teams that have been subject to resource constraints and staff reductions must approach their litigation more thoughtfully and creatively than ever before. They need to establish an e-discovery "bucket list" that contains both new tools and basic processes to use when things go pear shaped.

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Mobile Apps As Essential Parts Of e-Commerce

Arya Mokhtari

There are many reasons why an app is a key ingredient in your marketing strategy, regardless of the size of your social media following. SEO is basically showing up everywhere people search for things, and the app stores also act as search engines that generate millions of searches per month. Of course having a huge social media following will likely equal more downloads initially, but an app should be a tool you utilize very similar to a website, just for mobile clients.

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Google's Mass Copying of Copyrighted Works Judged 'Fair Use'

Mark Hamblett

Google's mass-copying of copyrighted works to build a digital library of more than 20 million books is shielded by the fair use doctrine, Judge Denny Chin ruled on Nov. 14.

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The Five Best Practices for Optimum Web Performance

Aaron Rudger

It's the annual shopping rush ' Black Friday and Cyber Monday are only the beginning of the run up to Christmas. For major online retailers especially, this is make or break time. Is your site ready?

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<i>Case Study</i> Solomon Ward Cuts through the Noise with AccessData Technology

William N. Kammer

AccessData's interoperable e-discovery, mobile device discovery and forensic analysis applications collect from nearly any data source and cull case data for highly targeted review. This platform addresses all phases of the e-discovery life cycle and with these tools in place, we offer effective and expedient e-discovery services to our clients while passing the resultant cost savings on to them.

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SEC Proposes Much-Anticipated Crowdfunding Rules

Katayun I. Jaffari & Jill M. Stadelman

On Oct. 23, the SEC finally proposed rules to implement the crowdfunding provisions of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012.

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The Myths of Legal Hold Notification

Mikki Tomlinson

Organizations face serious repercussions in the form of both costly sanctions and adverse inferences for inadequate or failed legal hold procedures. The most basic preservation task however, issuing legal hold notifications, seemingly remains a mystery to a surprising portion of corporate defendants. Too often, organizations, and their counsel, do not view the legal hold notification (LHN) process as a manageable business process.

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