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How to Safeguard Your Firm's Mobility
Mobile lawyers have a variety of tools at their disposal -- cell phones, laptops, GPS devices and PDAs -- which increase productivity, but also create security challenges. Your IT department must assess the risks of mobility and take advantage of the latest technologies.
E-Mail: When to Keep? When to Throw?
To save or delete? It's a frequent but important question for state government workers managing e-mail. The answer to that question potentially affects the public and whether citizens can access the electronic messages replacing paper documents traditionally used by government officials.
Scanning the Future of Google Books
Given the scope, size and audacity of the Google book search deal -- Google stands to emerge as the biggest library and bookseller worldwide -- the controversy isn't a surprise. Lawyers who have studied it find it the most creative use of the class action mechanism they've ever seen.
Legal Information Can Find Parallels in 'The Hunger Games'
James Heller, William & Mary's law library director, suggests that a "Hunger Games" world where information is controlled by a few publishers -- and nearly everything is accessed by a license -- is pretty much upon us.
Yahoo! Joins Google and Others in Mobile Password Two-Step
Following in the footsteps of Google, Facebook, Apple and others, Yahoo introduced two-step authentication for mobile app users.
'U Can't Touch This' Litigation Hold
When the IT staff sacrifices lawyers' work habits on the altar of implementing a litigation-hold policy, it seems like MC Hammer rules the day: "U Can't Touch This." The IT department's efforts at compliance often seem to interfere with lawyers in their duties to clients.
Whitehill and Interwoven Attack Law Firm Inefficiency
At LegalTech, it's not unusual to see vendors repurposing existing products to address law firm IT problems. Whitehill Technologies' BPI for Legal uses the company's business integration platform to help a firm get its IT systems to connect and share information. Interwoven's two new legal-specific efforts, New Business Intake and Conflicts Management, help set up new-client procedures, including a check for potential conflicts of interest between prospective and current clients.Microsoft's Lawyers Battle Hackers
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