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March 06, 2008 | Legaltech News

Top Blogs Hit All the Right Links

Help put your law firm's blog above the fold on a Google search using inbound and outbound links relevant to your site, whether they are mainstream press, public interest sites or other law blogs -- even those of your competitors. A well-linked blog is a great tool to help brand your firm.
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November 15, 2005 | Legaltech News

EDD Training: A Growth Industry

The training opportunities for lawyers and legal personnel faced with completing e-discovery tasks will increase exponentially in the next year or so, experts agree -- before the EDD-related amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are finalized and busy lawyers are forced to comply with them. But where will they turn for help -- to in-house IT people? Vendors? Specialized law firms? CLE programs? All of the above?
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April 06, 2012 | Legaltech News

Judge Allows Man to Probe Alleged Assailant's Facebook Page

A Pennsylvania judge has allowed a man claiming he was sucker-punched during a work soccer game to investigate the Facebook page of his alleged attacker, ostensibly to bolster a civil suit.
5 minute read
December 01, 2006 | Legaltech News

IBM Zeroes in on China

IBM Corp.'s move to join Citigroup Inc. in a $3.1 billion deal for a majority share in Guangdong Development Bank represents a shrewd play by IBM, analysts say. It gives the technology giant an important wedge into China's burgeoning market for IT services.
3 minute read
February 03, 2012 | Legaltech News

Texas Firm Alleges Former Employee Misappropriated Trade Secrets

First, she was accused of stealing money from her former law firm. Now a Texas woman faces allegations in a Houston civil court that she misappropriated confidential data from a firm server.
6 minute read
May 02, 2012 | Legaltech News

Take Two: Reactions to 'Da Silva Moore' Predictive Coding Order

Initial reactions to Judge Andrew Carter's order upholding that predictive coding be used in da Silva Moore, rife with excitement, are becoming more measured and cautious.
7 minute read
October 01, 2008 | Legaltech News

E-Alerts Can Perk Up Business Development

Electronic tip-off services such as Google Alert are important business development tools for lawyers to begin or deepen relationships with clients. Think of these new social networking tools as the digital caffeine to help fuel business development at your law firm.
7 minute read
May 17, 2011 | Legaltech News

Foley Talent Grab Sparks E-Mail Spat With Fla. Law Firm

GrayRobinson president Byrd "Biff" Marshall doesn't take kindly to other law firms trying to poach his partners. So when Foley & Lardner pitched 20 of Marshall's partners from around the state -- some to lead Foley offices -- he fired back with an e-mail bearing a generous dose of sarcastic humor. But Marshall insists he was surprised by the electronic response he inspired.
5 minute read
February 16, 2005 | Legaltech News

Patent Pools' Big Splash

MPEG LA's first patent pool for video compression technology pulled in millions of dollars, and now the licensing company wants in on digital rights management. Yet making a royalty splash won't be easy. Pools can't quite shake a reputation as a necessary evil. For one thing, no one likes to share control of patents (and profits). For another, pools raise regulator suspicions. For IP owners, it's a choice between hoping a pool will spur the market versus going alone, and maybe never seeing a market emerge.
13 minute read
May 10, 2012 | Legaltech News

Analyzing Developments Involving Software Patents

Richard Raysman, of Holland & Knight, and Peter Brown, of Baker & Hostetler, write that a federal judge's recent dissent highlights three thorny patent law issues, including the extent to which computer software and processes constitute statutory matter.
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