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May 22, 2012 | Legaltech News

Wiretap in N.J. Legal When Speaker Out of State

A New Jersey statute allowing law enforcement to tap conversations between people outside the state isn't unconstitutional, provided the listening post in located in New Jersey, a state court has ruled.
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February 22, 2005 | Legaltech News

Publius, RIP?

Whether you're spouting off about "Desperate Housewives" on a fan Web site or complaining about your sinking stock portfolio on a Yahoo message board, your ISP knows who you are. And the computers you visit on the Internet know who your ISP is. From there, it's just a hop, skip and subpoena to connect the dots, says attorney Fred von Lohmann, who makes note of a spate of lawsuits demanding that ISPs give up the identities of online speakers.
7 minute read
July 01, 2005 | Legaltech News

Case in a Box

Low-tech answer to connectivity challenges.
6 minute read
July 21, 2008 | Legaltech News

Tighter Budgets Make Outsourcing Attractive

Tough times and tight budgets have pushed general counsel to seek creative ways to cut legal costs. Contract attorneys, low-overhead law firms, virtual in-house counsel and overseas outsourcing are available, but in-house lawyers are proceeding with caution into this new territory.
5 minute read
March 08, 2012 | Legaltech News

Analyzing Novel Issues in Internet Jurisdiction

For attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, the ubiquity of the internet and the easy distribution of copyrighted material across boundaries have created novel issues for personal jurisdiction.
12 minute read
October 28, 2009 | Legaltech News

Inventor Fights Off New Rules on Patents

A lawsuit filed by a Connecticut inventor in 2007 halted new patent rules on "continuation" that would have imposed strict limits on how many times an inventor could make revisions to a pending patent application. Now, it's clear that those proposed rules will never go into effect.
5 minute read
October 26, 2010 | Legaltech News

Would You 'Friend' the Judge?

With sites like Facebook hosting over 500 million users, attorneys are aggressively pursuing social media for evidence. Facing obstacles such as the Stored Communications Act, litigants and courts are trying novel approaches: One judge invited the witnesses to "friend" him.
5 minute read
October 04, 2011 | Legaltech News

Simulation-Based Courses Help Law Schools Bridge the Globe

Simulation-based courses, in which law students act as lawyers to solve either a series of legal problems or one extended problem over a semester, are growing in popularity. Advocates for the courses, which harness videoconferencing and related technology to teach across law school campuses, say they are a good way for law schools to beef up practical training.
7 minute read
May 24, 2008 | Legaltech News

Lenovo Group Profits Soar

Profits grew more than 600 percent in Lenovo Group's latest fiscal year. Lenovo is the world's No. 4 personal computer maker, with its biggest market in China. It faces stiff competition from Dell Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Taiwanese rival Ace Inc.
3 minute read
October 08, 2012 | Legaltech News

Bellwether Trial on Horizon for Porn File-Sharing Suits

In a bellwether trial for file-sharing suits in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge has allowed pornographic movie producers to discover the subscriber information associated with the IP addresses of alleged copyright infringers.
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