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Mining Social Networking Sites Can Be Risky
Lawyers mining social networking sites for clients, beware. Web sites such as MySpace.com are juicy targets for computer hackers intent on obtaining sensitive personal information by commandeering personal Web pages and injecting malicious code.
FDA Prescription for Online Medical Confusion
The Food and Drug Administration thinks social networks like Twitter and Facebook are good for itself, but does not think them good for the industry it regulates. Despite repeated requests from the drug industry and hearings at the FDA, the agency has failed to provide meaningful guidance on how pharmaceutical companies are supposed to use social media in their marketing.
E-Discovery an Exception in Arbitration
A subcommittee of the New York Bar provides 10 precepts to enable arbitrators to effectively control the discovery process. For the most part, the precepts refrain from giving specific advice due to the particularized needs of individual cases. An exception is made for e-discovery.
California Rules to Amend Inaccessible ESI
Proposed electronic discovery rules currently before the California Senate's Committee on Rules significantly alter the treatment of "inaccessible" electronically stored information. Disaster recovery backup tapes, once deemed inaccessible, may enter the realm of accessible data.
Game Over for Pac-Man Trademark Infringers?
Not too long ago, if you googled "Pac-Man," the top results pointed to products that infringed the video game's trademarks. That's changing, says the top lawyer for the U.S. division of Namco Bandai Games, the Japanese company that owns the pop culture icon. As its legal department shifts focus to infringers on the internet, it?s seeing results.
The Dangers of Virtual Cocktail Parties
Most attorneys are familiar with this scenario: You're at a social event and someone asks you what he should do in a certain legal situation. Do you answer? And if you do, how can you protect yourself from legal fallout? That conundrum has now moved online, as more attorneys participate in social networking sites.Susskind Named Chair of Integreon's Client Advisory Board
Los Angeles-based Integreon, a provider of research, legal, and business applications, has appointed author Richard Susskind to its client advisory board as independent chairman. The company cited Susskind's "30 years of experience in legal technology and professional services."
Is a Digital Picture Worth a Thousand Words?
More decisions address spoliation sanctions for failure to preserve digital videos and photographs, and courts are weighing the equities of the circumstances under which images have been "lost" when determining the appropriate sanction, writes Ganfer & Shore's Mark A. Berman.Trending Stories
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