Leonard Deutchman

March 26, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

In this month's article, we will examine the Superior Court's reasoning in Dunkins and compare it to the U.S. Supreme Court's reasoning in Carpenter. As with so many Fourth Amendment decisions, we will review the underlying facts that the courts believed did or did not give rise to any expectation of privacy.

By Leonard Deutchman

18 minute read

February 20, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Over the past few years, CLE providers have moved from presenting programs solely focusing on e-discovery and digital evidence to incorporating digital evidence presentations into programs regarding litigation generally. The issue I will explore in this month's column is whether the aforementioned move is of any great significance and, if so, what that significance is.

By Leonard Deutchman

12 minute read

January 23, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

In this month's article, I will review Davis and discuss its reasoning and what the foregone conclusion exception, in the age of computer passwords, tells us about both computers and the exception.

By Leonard Deutchman

12 minute read

December 26, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Oct. 29, Facebook and WhatsApp filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against NSO Group Technologies, Inc. (NSO) and its majority shareholder, Q Cyber Technologies, both Israeli companies.

By Leonard Deutchman

11 minute read

October 24, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

What has caught my eye in recent months is how many of those journals, regardless of whether their focus is on e-discovery, the intersection of the law and technology generally, law firms or simply on the law generally, have turned their attention to the intersection of the law and digital technology.

By Leonard Deutchman

12 minute read

October 03, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

In last week's article, I discussed the findings of the Pennsylvania Superior Court's nonprecedential decision in Commonwealth v. Mason, in which the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (the Wiretap Act), was invoked.

By Leonard Deutchman

9 minute read

September 26, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

In Commonwealth v. Mason, a nonprecedential decision, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that a criminal defendant's videotaped actions as a nanny in her employer's home were not subject to the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (the Wiretap Act),

By Leonard Deutchman

8 minute read

August 29, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kevin Spacey was on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in summer 2016. Per the allegations of the complainant, an 18-year-old employee of a Nantucket restaurant, Spacey bought him alcohol and then, without the complainant's consent, groped him at the restaurant.

By Leonard Deutchman

11 minute read

August 01, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

As per a standing order by the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania effective June 3, the U.S. Marshal must “implement a new procedure to regulate the possession and use of cameras and personal electronic devices, such as cellular telephones, smartphones, laptop computers, recording devices and tablet computers, by all visitors to all U.S. courthouses and other federal court locations in the Eastern District.”

By Leonard Deutchman

7 minute read

May 30, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

In this article, we will discuss the issues of whether and how to make lawyers more geeky and what chance there is for those ways to become established and successful.

By Leonard Deutchman

9 minute read