With technology, a legal department can speak with a single voice, think with a single mind, and act like a partnership even with lawyers dispersed around the world. Consultant Rees W. Morrison discusses 20 techniques that increase coherence and effectiveness in a spread-out department.
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Opponents of Chicago’s handgun ban in McDonald v. Chicago argued that the high court should solely rely on secondary sources and not digital searches of original material that aim to prevent “Barbie dolls in the archeological dig,” where advocates read modern facts into the historical record.
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Whether employers may review or monitor private e-mails, web histories and other electronic communications of employees on company-issued computers, cell phones, pagers, and the like has been the subject of much debate. Attorney Madelaine S. Baio looks at recent rulings on the issue.
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Once the first steps in implementing an effective written litigation hold are taken and a trigger event to preserve evidence is initiated, the organization needs to define the scope of the legal hold, say Howett Isaza partner John Isaza and Goldberg Segalla partner John J. Jablonski.
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Howett Isaza partner John Isaza and Goldberg Segalla partner John J. Jablonski provide an overview of the first step necessary to implement a legally defensible, written litigation hold in this initial article of a series aimed at helping organizations discharge their duty to preserve ESI.
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Moving or copying large Microsoft SharePoint document libraries from one site, or extranet, to another is a recurring need in law firms. Mark Gerow, of Fenwick & West, shows how to move a document library of any size with just a bit of .NET code using the Windows SharePoint Services SDK.
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LegalTech New York felt like a user conference this year, says Sean Doherty, Law.com’s technology editor. Although the messages sent from vendors were mixed, a number of threads appeared that set the tone for the show and marked a direction for tech in the new year: full speed ahead.
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Out of ten member countries of ASEAN, only Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Laos have some form of Domain Names Dispute Resolution mechanism. The wordings of the respective DRPs are closely modelled from the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), but of course with some variations to reflect the local flavour. Thus, it is not surprising that, in many cases, the parties as well as the panels often refer to previous UDRP cases to support their arguments. To some extent, this ensures greater uniformity in the decisions.
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