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Attention Legal Industry Decision-Makers: Before You Spend on Legal Tech, Read This

Monica Zent lists six steps that can limit the odds of overspending or buying the wrong technology for legal departments and law firms.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Is Litigation Public Relations Privileged?

Two recent cases, Behunin v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 215 Cal. Rptr. 3d 475 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017), in California, and another in New York, Gottwald v. Sebert, 58 Misc. 3d 625 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2017), show that keeping communications strategic planning confidential is not so straightforward. And, these decisions open the door to increased chances for litigants to seek discovery into the litigation public relations efforts of their adversaries.
12 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Protecting Privileged Premerger Communications With Corporate Clients

Some successor companies may insist on having access to communications concerning the merger after the fact as a prerequisite to the deal.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Effort to Derail AT&T-Time Warner Merger Seen as Uphill Fight, But Some Point to 'Friendly Forum' in DC Circuit

Experts see a difficult task ahead for the Trump administration, particularly because the federal trial judge's ruling was so fact-driven. But others argue the appeal might find a more favorable reception at the D.C. Circuit.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Tips and Warnings Related to International FOIA for Lawyers, Journalists

This column contains both tips and warnings related to records-access laws and ensuring that lawyers and journalists not only read them, but maximize the use of these laws.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

Law Firm Loses Bid to Force Yelp to Remove Bad Review

"With this decision, online publishers in California can be assured that they cannot be lawfully forced to remove third-party speech through enterprising abuses of the legal system, and those of us that use such platforms to express ourselves cannot be easily silenced through such tactics either," Yelp deputy general counsel Aaron Schur said in a blog post.
1 minute read

Texas Lawyer

What Legal Risks Are Posed by the Internet of Things?

We live surrounded by the Internet of Things, or more simply put, connected devices. They know what temperature to heat our rooms, what time we get out…
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Court Affirms Dismissal of Baylor Football Exec's Libel Claims vs. School, Counsel Over Sex Assault Scandal

Dallas' Fifth Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of libel claims lodged against Baylor University and Pepper Hamilton in connection with…
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Reality Winner Reaches Plea Deal With Government Over Leaked Document

The mother of U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner says her daughter intends to enter a guilty plea next week after more than a year in jail without bond.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Attorneys vs. Accountants: The Battle Wages On

In this column on Law Firm Management, Jamie Diaferia and Helen Bertelli discuss an Infinite Global study that reveals trends and best practices for content and social media in the law and accounting industries.
3 minute read

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