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October 26, 2011 | Legaltech News

How Texas Instruments Transformed the Eastern District of Texas

How did the Eastern District of Texas become such a haven for patent lawsuits? Rewind to Dallas-based Texas Instruments in the early 1990s for an answer.
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November 30, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Confronting the Fact of Juror Research

The lawyers aren't the only ones doing discovery. Jurors have the online tools to discover all sorts of things about lawyers, their cases, their witnesses. The information age makes finding those 12 ignorant persons and keeping them ignorant -- a daunting and maybe impossible task.
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June 24, 2010 | Legaltech News

Case Law Evolves in the Admission of Text Messages

Peter A. Crusco, an assistant district attorney who works on investigations in Queens County, N.Y., cites several cases supporting his point that at trial, a short text message may carry much greater significance than a convoluted statement or lengthy document, e-mail or letter.
10 minute read
May 27, 2009 | Legaltech News

9th Circuit Decency Act Ruling Rejected

The Communications Decency Act attempted to include a broad and sweeping immunity for third-party content providers. This immunity -- and its pertinence to IP law -- was the subject of a 2nd Circuit court decision, squarely in opposition to a 9th Circuit ruling on the same issue.
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October 01, 2003 | Legaltech News

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January 25, 2012 | Legaltech News

Apple, Publishers, Open-Source Dictate Law School Textbook Evolution

Electronic tablets will make paper books in law schools obsolete, publishing experts say, in reaction to news of Apple entering the textbook market and Thomson Reuters exiting it.
5 minute read
March 14, 2011 | Legaltech News

Group Says Body Scanners an 'Unreasonable Search'

The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants to stop the Transportation Security Administration from using the scan that shows a naked image of a passenger's body as a primary means of screening. EPIC is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to require the agency to make a new rule with input from the public before it goes into effect.
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May 12, 2011 | Legaltech News

To Skype or Not to Skype

The growth of video communications hit a new milestone on May 10 as Skype, the VoIP peer-to-peer provider, was purchased by Microsoft in a deal worth $8.5 billion. Now that the dust has settled a bit on the deal, I wanted to take a closer look at what all of this means -- for consumers and businesspeople alike. The future, "rests increasingly on video calls, as well as voice and text messages ... it could change the way people make even the most routine calls." That's interesting ... [MORE]
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November 18, 2011 | Legaltech News

Cameras in the Courtroom and the Myth of Supreme Court Exceptionalism

Fearing change, Supreme Court justices have yet to allow media cameras into the courtroom, but NLJ's Supreme Court reporter, Tony Mauro, sees a lessening of this reluctance.
11 minute read
September 01, 2009 | Legaltech News

Orange Crush

Ergonomic chairs may look goofy, but they feel great and reduce stress.
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