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ASCAP Sues Over Ringtone 'Performance'
Is someone liable under copyright law when a cell phone emits a ringtone of a hit song? The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers believes the sounds are a "public performance" and is suing AT&T, which says it already pays royalties for downloaded jingles.
Preservation Wars: Upgrading E-Discovery Rules
After several years of escalating sanctions from key judges (including the East Coast posse of Shira Scheindlin, Andrew Peck, James Francis, Paul Grimm, and John Facciola, and Texan Lee Rosenthal), lawyers are starting to push back. Especially defense lawyers with Fortune 500 clients. One of the loudest is Robert Owen, a partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, who argues that electronic data discovery preservation rules (and judicial interpretation of those rules) have become too vague and too burdensome. He has proposed ... [MORE]
Spoliation of Evidence Can Spoil Litigation
A party's position in litigation can be impaired by the destruction, alteration or loss of evidence. Attorneys Jeffrey Shapiro and Neville Leslie explain how parties may have their actions derailed or dismissed for spoliation of evidence.
Mintz Levin Unlocks the Door to CRM
The old way to get an important introduction was to send internal e-mails asking if anyone knew the person in question. Fred Pretorius, the IS director at Mintz Levin, says his firm needed an alternative that would allow them to systematically catalog, search and leverage relationships. CRM provider Contact Networks gave the law firm what it wanted and more: an automatically compiled "corporate Rolodex" that eliminates the need for hundreds of hours of manual data entry and updating.
From Aderant to ZyLab: What's in a Name?
What's in a name? Inspired by a recent Mashable post looking at the origins of prominent, yet mysteriously named, social media companies such as Twitter, I sought to decipher the corporate names of nine prominent legal technology companies. These are not companies with founders as namesakes (e.g., Levit & James). These companies' monikers beg the question: Why are they named that? It's not that the names are necessarily hard to pronounce or illogical, it's that they're what ... [MORE]
Go Beyond PowerPoint to Make Your Case
As traditional whiteboard-and-photo-enlargement courtroom presentations give way to multimedia testimony and computer animations, smart attorneys and paralegals are ramping up their presentations to stay current with cutting-edge technology and connecting with increasingly tech-savvy jurors.
Electronic Message Boards Stir Concerns
Attorneys are advising their clients that message boards in the workplace could be a troublesome new source of liability, allowing employees to post comments to anyone in the company. This could lead to a host of lawsuits, including sexual harassment, discrimination and defamation.Tech Circuit: Fire & Rain Edition
So much for Thanksgiving vacation plans for the lawyers and consultants who advise Hewlett-Packard Co. and Autonomy. Instead of turkey they were probably inhaling Maalox after HP divulged that it was taking a $8.8 billion write down related to the Autonomy purchase, and accused Autonomy executives of accounting fraud. In other news, CIO David Otte has left Sidley, and Baker McKenzie has been creating new apps. But as James Taylor noted, with fire there is rain. Our community lost two giants: Jay Jaffe, president and CEO at Jaffe PR and Gary Munneke, professor of law at Pace Law School and a 38-year activist with the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management section.Trending Stories
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- 5Securities Report Says That 2024 Settlements Passed a Total of $5.2B
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