Peter Brown

April 12, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that e-mail has fundamentally altered the way in which companies do business, as well as how people conduct their personal lives, both in and out of the workplace.

By Richard Raysman And Peter Brown

14 minute read

March 14, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that the use of forensic techniques on computers and other digital and electronic devices has increasingly been employed in civil litigation to assist parties in locating evidence that in the past was extremely difficult or impossible to find.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

10 minute read

June 15, 2011 | Legaltech News

Trade secrets remain an important and enticing part of any company's IP portfolio. Ultimately, the most important consideration of trade secret status is whether the information is kept secret. To qualify as a trade secret, the information need not be kept absolutely secret, but a court will examine closely the measures taken by the holder to guard the confidentiality of the information.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

10 minute read

August 13, 2007 | Law.com

With such daily reliance on Web sites, the substance of which may not be verifiable, it is not surprising that issues of evidentiary authentication and admissibility of Internet sources under the Federal Rules of Evidence are coming under judicial review. The reliability of information contained on a large number of sites and the ability of sites, whether completely accurate or not, to shape certain perceptions have given rise to questions about dependability in a legal context.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

10 minute read

August 08, 2006 | Law.com

Take steps to avoid throwing away money on "collective actions" brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

By Peter Brown and David Urban

8 minute read

December 15, 2010 | Legaltech News

Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown find that attorneys will continue to seek out social networking content in civil litigation. Beyond that, there are also numerous ethical concerns for attorneys to use the new media to interact with colleagues, advertise services, and educate clients.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

December 14, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that more than 90 percent of documents created today are prepared in electronic format, including the 31 billion e-mails sent daily, a number that is expected to double by 2006.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

13 minute read

February 14, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, review some of the emerging and varying standards that courts have adopted when a plaintiff has sought to discover the identity of anonymous John Doe defendants in Internet-related defamation cases.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

12 minute read

July 20, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Licensed computer software is fully integrated into many companies' businesses in today's technology-driven environment. Licenses for the software or related content are sometimes tenaciously negotiated.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

10 minute read

January 11, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that patents, like politics, can make strange bedfellows. Consider, for example, the agreement between Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. signed this past November.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read