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Cisco's Barr to Lead Law School's Tech Center
Robert Barr, Cisco Systems Inc.'s longtime chief patent counsel, is leaving to become executive director of Boalt Hall School of Law's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Barr, who will assume the post July 1, said the position was an opportunity to do something different. He will be managing the center's program, doing fundraising, teaching and working on the center's curriculum.
'The Onion' Likely in the Clear for Questionable Tweets
The Onion caused some confusion when its messages on Twitter described gunfire in the U.S. Capitol, but media lawyers said last week the satirical newspaper probably doesn't have to worry about any legal fallout. The Onion is well established as satire and the First Amendment would likely preclude any claims, the lawyers said.
Plaintiffs' Unedited Video Interview Privileged, Judge Rules
Footage from an auto-accident plaintiffs' videotaped interview, left on the cutting room floor by his lawyer, will stay there, a Northumberland County, Pa., judge has ruled.
E-Discovery Sanctions at All-Time High, but What's the True Impact?
According to the ABA Journal, e-discovery sanctions have "reached an all-time high after three decades of litigation over alleged discovery wrongdoing, and lawyers are increasingly being targeted." Lawyers from King & Spalding conducted a study, summarized in the Catalyst E-Discovery blog and published in the ,em>Duke Law Journal, that found "sanction motions and sanction awards for e-discovery violations have been trending ever-upward for the last 10 years and have now reached historic highs." They were able to identify 30 cases in which attorneys were sanctioned for e-discovery violations -- seven of the violations occurred in 2009 alone.
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New Liability Frontier: Instant Messages
Google's plans to turn the world into "one big instant messaging network" may leave employers wondering how responsible they are for the millions of messages that cross their servers. In some ways, instant messaging presents many of the same security and privacy issues as e-mailing or blogging, but many employers may not even realize the need to address it. Speaking of messages, here's one from lawyers to employers: Start worrying.
Calif. Court Computer Contractor Agrees to $16 Million Refund
Deloitte Consulting, the architect of the California judiciary's Court Case Management System, has agreed to credit the Administrative Office of the Courts $16 million for delays in the long-awaited project. Final delivery of the computer network was pushed back 10 months last year because of quality issues detected during testing, the California auditor concluded.
Hot Neuron Revs Clustify to Ignore Email Headers, Footers
Hot Neuron, an information retrieval software and services company, announced Monday that its new release of Clustify software now features the ability to automatically ignore email headers and footers to produce cleaner and more useful results for legal professionals.
EDD and Globalization to Impact Lawyers
Lawyers expect e-discovery and globalization to have the most impact on the practice of law in the next five years, according to a new survey from Robert Half Legal staffing agency. Twenty-five percent of respondents named EDD as the top catalyst for change; 23 percent cited globalization.Trending Stories
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