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November 23, 2010 | Legaltech News

Facebook Creates New Mess for EDD: Messages

Facebook's new messaging system has three components: seamless messaging, a social inbox, and conversation history. Messages -- text, chat, perhaps even smoke signals -- will be preserved forever, posing new e-discovery risks for employers from a social network with over 500 million users.
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January 23, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Commentary: Get It Write — Embrace Editing Techniques To Improve Briefs

How do mistakes make it past even the most careful writer's eyes? Thinking about how that happens is the key to discovering editing techniques to prevent it in briefs, writes Kendall Gray. Writers often can edit others' work much more thoroughly than their own — probably because committing something to memory happens quickly after writing it down. Mistakes often arise from this problem of memory.
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April 15, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Injunctions in Arbitration Cases: Overcoming the Challenges

All companies with well-known brand names or trade secrets, and particularly franchise companies, need to seek an injunction from time to time. Where the parties to the dispute have agreed to resolve their dispute only by arbitration, obtaining an injunction can be a more complicated process.
6 minute read
April 27, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Couple Unaware Child Was Sold in Scam Wins Guardianship

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May 24, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Turnpike Authority Settles Suit Over Internet Posting of Fiery Crash Video

YouTube and two other video-sharing Web sites agreed Thursday to stop showing a surveillance video of a car exploding on impact with a tollbooth on the Garden State Parkway
5 minute read
July 19, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Awards Fees In Extended Dispute Between Lawyers

In a battle over attorney fees that has been drawn out over eight years, a federal judge took a sharp tone this week in a 79-page opinion in which he expressed the "sincere hope" that it would close the dispute.
5 minute read
December 02, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Alcotest Operator and Pre-test Observer Need Not Be Same Person, Court Says

In a ruling that resolves a split among trial courts in Alcotest-based drunken-driving cases, an appeals court held Wednesday that the person who observes a driver before taking a blood alcohol reading need not be the machine operator but can be "any competent witness."
5 minute read
December 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Court Certifies Class of Exotic Dancers in Action Over Unpaid Wages

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May 26, 2000 | Law.com

L.A. Confidential

When Los Angeles's Board of Police Commissioners proclaimed "a new era" in 1998, claiming to have implemented drastic reforms urged by the Christopher Commission in response to the Rodney King beating, many people had doubts. Now, with Los Angeles facing the Rampart scandal, the police commission is on the defensive. The Christopher Commission, which was headed by big-firm lawyers, had entrusted the Police Commission, led by big-firm lawyers, to carry through the reforms intended to prevent major scandals.
24 minute read
April 08, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Social Media Discovery Evolving in Pennsylvania

A Northumberland County judge granted last week a defense motion seeking access to the private portions of the Facebook and MySpace accounts of a personal injury plaintiff, finding no privilege exists in Pennsylvania for information on private sections of social websites.
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