Announcing the new LexisNexis iPhone App for Law Students! This LexisNexis iPhone App allows you to retrieve cases and Shepard’s reports right from your iPhone.  Anyone can download it for free at the App Store. Now you can quickly...

Many lawyers understand the importance of networking, but let’s face it — running a law practice takes time and no one ever seems to have enough of it. In fact, the lack of time is one of the main reasons lawyers offer as an excuse to avoid online...

An FTC rule scheduled to go into effect November 1 st could have serious implications for law firms’ fee and billing practices. The American Bar Association is trying to stop the Federal Trade Commission from applying the “Red Flag Rule”...

Posted by: J. Alex Dalessio             With the cacophony of news pouring out of every outlet these days - from the Olympics, Nobel Prizes, troop escalations in Afghanistan, to the earning reports...

If you’ve ever misplaced your iPhone, Blackberry, cell phone or favorite electronic toy, you quickly realize how much you depend on it as a time-saving tool. Certain apps increase our productivity, allow us to work in such crazy places as...

New survey data reveals that more than 70 percent of lawyers are members of an online social network – up nearly 25 percent over the past year – with 30 percent growth reported among lawyers aged 46 and over. The second annual Networks for Counsel...

An ethics complaint looming over hundreds of attorneys nationwide will test the boundaries of lawyer advertising on the Internet. The complaint, filed with disciplinary authorities in 47 states — including Maryland —against 550 attorneys,...

The New York Supreme Court decision sets out what plaintiffs must show in order to obtain an anonymous blogger’s identity.   The action sought to compel Google and subsidiary Blogger.com to identify the person who posted weblogs containing...

Posted by Tom Hagy President, HB Litigation Conferences    With hundreds of laws governing data privacy and the potential for billions of dollars in damages, you can’t help but think that insurance coverage disputes are...

Five users of Facebook filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court alleging that the social media giant violated California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating to third parties certain personal information posted by users. The suit also...

Many of us use Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to keep up with friends and their activities. But one attorney’s plan to “keep friends close and enemies closer,” was recently deemed unethical by the Philadelphia Bar Association.   ...

There’s an electronic window into everyone’s lives, and through this window, millions of eyes will pry and millions of people may learn the best and worst about you. It’s not like any other window. It sits safely on your desk, but it’s...

I had occasion to watch the DVD of True Crime the other day, a 1999 movie starring Clint Eastwood (and others in a terrific cast too lengthy to list here, but that includes Isaiah Washington before his Grey’s Anatomy days and a fantastically...

LexisNexis Technology Gap Survey Finds Impact on Workplace Etiquette and Blurred Boundaries Between Work and Home   NEW YORK, NY, April 15, 2009 - A national survey of legal professionals found that while technology is widely embraced among...

If your matrimonial client advises you that she uncovered proof that her husband has been unfaithful while she was snooping through his e-mail on the family computer, can you use her e-discovery? An attorney must consider whether a client's...

Mark S. Britton, Founder and CEO of Avvo, submitted a special to the Legal Technology Blog entitled Avvocating: You Might Be Obsessed With Twitter if ... Personally, the fact that I had to link to and read the article tells me that I am obsessed with Twitter....

How do you perform your litigation background checks? Checking court records and even Googling subjects only gets you so far. As astutely noted by Tamara Thompson in Law.com’s Technology News, “Social networking activity can be quite revealing...

A recent article by Steven C. Bennett and Marla S.K. Bergman in the New York Law Journal outlines 10 crucial steps in a typical e-discovery project and suggest ways that attorneys can help to ensure that such projects proceed successfully. In sum, they...

I’ve posted articles previously about the dangers of inadvertent disclosure of privileged or confidential materials through metadata, see, e.g., Native File Format and Metadata . Most people I’ve talked to haven’t really considered the...

On the Legal Intelligencer Blog, Attorney Gina F. Rubel of Furia Rubel Communications, Inc. is posting a series of articles devoted to social networking for attorneys. She writes: As an avid user of social media platforms such as Linkedin,...

Productivity blog Lifehacker recently reported that in a recent experiment performed by Kessler International, a computer forensics company from New York,  regarding used hard drives available on eBay, 40% of the hard disk drives purchased on eBay contained...

You are following a dozen attorneys in your legal specialty who use Twitter extensively, and some others outside of your field who are boring you to death. You are following a couple of publications in your field, two bar association resources, and of course...

You may have once asked yourself – “What if I gave a party and no one showed up?” You have now posted your first Tweet on Twitter, and there its sits, doing nothing. And you are asking yourself – “What if I keep Tweeting and...

In summer of 1992 after the Democratic convention, Bill Clinton and Al Gore made a historic bus trip across the country that created the momentum that led to their victory that November. The trip captured the attention of the media and the voters because...

Ah, the wonders of the flash drive. First made commercially available in 2000, the flash drive is a technological wonder that allows mass storage of data, including word processing documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, images, and movies, on a device that...

Roger Matus, CEO of InBoxer, Inc. of Concord, Mass. and a well-known commentator on the use of email, IM, and messaging technologies, has posted some great advice from Cataphora CEO Elizabeth Charnock on his Death by Email blog in 10 Things Never To...

Cyberspace is a metaphor used to describe the nonphysical, virtual terrain created by computer systems. (The prefix "cyber" means anything related to computers or to the Internet.) Like physical space, cyberspace contains objects (files, mail messages,...

The Internet has quickly become a vital marketplace for consumer and business commercial transactions. However, Internet electronic commerce could not become a successful marketplace unless it became possible to form binding electronic contracts between strangers....

The American Bar Association has posted a very helpful outline from a session from the Arkansas Bar Association Midyear meeting identifying some risks of the use of technology in the law office. The ABA intro provides as follows:   Technology...

Our law students are more tech-savvy than ever. Unfortunately, they occasionally lack sense. Some of them simply fail to realize that we -- professors, bar examiners, and law firms -- see material they post online. Others make a game out of being intentionally,...

With much fanfare, in December 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were changed to address electronic discovery issues. After those changes, the rules provide that emails, text messages and other forms of electronically stored information ("ESI")...

The 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure answered many questions about the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI), but they left to case law development issues arising from the discovery and production of ESI in native file...

Data in RAM is impermanent and may exist for less than a second. In Columbia Pictures Indus. v. Bunnell , the court ordered the defendant to preserve certain data in RAM, which was crucial to the plaintiff's copyright infringement claims. John Rabiej discusses...

Corporations today store thousands of documents on their computers: original drafts, rewritten contracts, notices, publications, and e-mail discussions and conversations. When there is contested litigation involving large corporations, culling through the...

Increasingly employees and employers prefer electronic communications (particularly electronic mail) over inefficient, slow, and often cumbersome transmission of paper copies of documents. But what about the legal validity of electronic communications and...

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich" Daffy Duck in Ali Baba Bunny (1957)   Here at Litigation Update, we love uncovering the mistakes attorneys (and others) make by failing to use the online resources readily available...

Interested in practicing in the Cyberlaw area? Here’s what you have to look forward to…   Type of Firms Practicing Cyberlaw   Within the last decade, large and national law firms have been establishing electronic commerce...

Few would question that the United States economy has shifted into a new era. The Industrial Age, characterized by huge factories and the mass production of goods, has given way to the Information Age, characterized by the dominance of the service sector...