Lawyers incur tremendous administrative costs in servicing clients who are resistant if not hostile to the idea of these costs being billed back to them. Mattern & Associates CEO and founder Robert Mattern brings to light trends in law firm cost recovery in an increasingly digital world.
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Software developers that block Internet ads and viruses enjoy a broad immunity from lawsuits brought by companies whose Web pages are blocked, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. But the court sounded a cautionary note about the breadth of such immunity.
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Reed Smith hadn’t invested enough in information infrastructure and processes such as document retrieval were taking too long. To take control of its data before it took hold of them, the firm implemented Recommind’s MindServer Search platform as its knowledge management base.
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Pain, diet and psychiatric pills are all the rage on the Internet now, experts say. But federal prosecutors have new ammo to wield against rogue Internet pharmacies: a federal law requiring face-to-face examinations between doctor and patient for controlled substance prescriptions.
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On Monday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law California’s first set of electronic discovery regulations. They largely mirror federal regulations and for the first time offer state litigants specific definitions of what constitutes electronically stored information.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on June 30 granted the State of California’s waiver request to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act, starting in model year 2009.
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NEW ORLEANS - The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 30 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of tort claims against the United States of America related to the alleged failure of the levee breaches in the wake of Hurricane Katrina because the plaintiffs did not exhaust their administrative remedies as required under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA); the court further found that the plaintiffs failed to establish admiralty jurisdiction under the Suits in Admiralty Act (SAA) (In re: Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, Maureen O’Dwyer, et al. v. United States of America, No. 07-30412, 5th Cir.).
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PHILADELPHIA - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on June 30 agreed to decide whether the hiring of an outside law firm by the state government on a contingency basis to pursue Risperdal reimbursement claims is unconstitutional and whether the firm should be disqualified (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., et al., No. 2 EM 2009, Pa. Sup., and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., et al., No.080102181, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.; See 2/5/09, Page 11).
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Sedona Conference founder Richard Braman wants law schools to teach lawyers to collaborate during e-discovery and drop the gladiatorial style of litigation to deal with mounting volumes of data. Less adversarial EDD is the goal of his Cooperation Proclamation.
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H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, partners at Paul Weiss, advise that companies that use social networks should ensure they are prepared to preserve, collect and produce social networking data for cases and that their electronic communications policies cover social networking.
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