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Less Is More in Database Discovery Image

Less Is More in Database Discovery

Michael Spencer & Diana Fasching

In legal discovery, it is not uncommon to see production requests for a copy of an entire database instead of requests for targeted, relevant information. Is this the best path to follow?

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Hostile Use of 'Friend' Request Puts Lawyers in Ethics Trouble Image

Hostile Use of 'Friend' Request Puts Lawyers in Ethics Trouble

Mary Pat Gallagher

Two New Jersey defense lawyers have been hit with ethics charges for having used Facebook in an unfriendly fashion.

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Eighth Circuit Ends Thomas-Rasset File-Sharing Fight Image

Eighth Circuit Ends Thomas-Rasset File-Sharing Fight

Sheri Qualters

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has reinstated statutory damages of more than $220,000 against a woman who illegally file-shared two dozen songs, finding the damages to be constitutional.

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A Wireless Practice

Robert Rodriguez

In a world driven by technology yet somehow tied down by the fear of change, I found myself committed to making Miller, Kagan, Rodriguez & Silver (MKRS) stand out as a productive mobile practice ' one that could reap all the benefits of technology but maintain camaraderie, efficiency and productivity.

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The Litigation Data Avalanche: Time to Move To the Cloud? Image

The Litigation Data Avalanche: Time to Move To the Cloud?

Matthew Gillis & Steven Berrent

For many firms, the time has come to ask a similar question about litigation data that they asked about the mailroom: Should we step up our infrastructure investments to host all of our own software tools and client matter files, or should we explore alternative options for outsourcing this crucial function?

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Potential New Barrier to Verdicts of Willful Infringement? Image

Potential New Barrier to Verdicts of Willful Infringement?

Matthew W. Siegal & B. Clayton McCraw

The question of whether a defendant had willfully infringed a patent has typically been decided by a jury. However, under <i>Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.L. Gore &amp; Assoc.,</i> a judge may now have the exclusive role of determining whether a jury is entitled to decide this question.

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The IP Exclusion: The Elephant in the Room Image

The IP Exclusion: The Elephant in the Room

Martin Myers

So-called Intellectual Property exclusions in commercial general liability ("GL") insurance policies have received relatively little attention from the courts. However, the ubiquity of new advertising technologies, recent appellate decisions confirming GL "personal and advertising injury" coverage for patent claims, and new claims that policyholders are facing for alleged electronic invasions of privacy may well turn the IP exclusion into the proverbial "elephant in the room.

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Overcoming Barriers to Technology-Assisted Review

Shelley Podolny

Recent matters have pushed the topic of technology assisted review (TAR) into the judicial limelight, generating much discussion ' and confusion ' in the legal community.

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Social Media

Mark Neuberger

When used in a conscious and planned manner, social networking sites can offer a number of benefits to the firm as well as individual attorneys and staff.

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The Importance of Self-Regulation In Improving Digital Privacy Image

The Importance of Self-Regulation In Improving Digital Privacy

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has made digital privacy and online children's safety the center of its 2012-13 agenda, as the new NAAG president, Maryland attorney general Douglas Gansler, made clear in a statement in June, in announcing the "Privacy in the Digital Age" initiative.

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