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The Legal Intelligencer

Without a Broad Understanding of E-Discovery, Primer's Rules May Go Unfollowed

The primer sets forth the rules well, but it does not, nor could it, explain how our judicial system will compel the litigants to follow them. Moreover, until e-discovery is understood as well by as many courts and litigators who understand other principles of that have been part of all phases of litigation, e.g., small cases as well as larger ones, for much longer, it is unlikely that the principles set forth in the primer will be widely followed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Be Sure to Play 'Show and Tell' With Your Law Firm's Online Newsroom

Online newsrooms are powerful and versatile marketing tools for law firms. They are powerful because lawyers can use their firms' newsrooms to build their authority and credibility with website visitors simply by talking about themselves and the work they've done for their clients.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

E-Discovery in Smaller Cases: Tips and Strategies

The elephant in the room regarding electronic discovery is that the expense is high and difficult for the average litigant to afford. Moreover, there…
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Facebook No Friend in Palm Beach County Carjacking Case

That's one of the lessons from an appeals court ruling in a carjacking case in which police discovered a Facebook video that showed a defendant driving the victim's car and wearing the victim's stolen watch.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

French 'Dark Web' Drug Defendant Loses Evidence Challenge Over Border Inspection

A judge reaffirmed that entrants to the United States can be subjected to questioning and broad searches of their belongings without breaching constitutional rights.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Citing Safety, Woman Seeks to Keep Anonymity in NRA Lawsuit

Saying she fears for her safety, a young woman who wants to join the National Rifle Association's challenge to a new Florida law that made it illegal to sell guns to anyone under age 21 is asking a federal court to keep her identity secret.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Increasingly, Courts Scrutinizing Lawyers' Social Media Activity

The recent New Jersey case of a lawyer whose excuse for missing a filing deadline was proved false by vacation photos she posted on Instagram is part of a growing body of cases in which lawyers and judges faced scrutiny over their social media postings.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Porn Star Stormy Daniels Sues Trump Over Tweet

At issue is a tweet President Donald Trump made in which he dismissed a composite sketch that Stormy Daniels says depicted a man who threatened her in 2011 to stay quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Law Firms Must Be Proactive to Prevent Cyberattacks

In the past few years, major law firms, including Cravath Swaine & Moore and Weil Gotshal & Manges, were victims of cyberattacks. In addition, more than 11.5 million files from Mossack Fonseca, the world's fourth largest offshore law firm, were stolen because the firm failed to take the necessary steps to protect its confidential data, including updating the security of its web servers.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Golf Course Called Police on Black Lawyer Who Knows Her Way Around Civil Rights Law

Sandra Thompson operates a solo firm in York, practicing civil rights, criminal defense, family law, immigration, incorporation, landlord-tenant and personal injury law.
4 minute read

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