The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on e-discovery are instructive for many states. Attorney Michael Hoenig discusses the federal rules and guidelines for New York state courts on e-discovery that help reduce uncertainty in state court litigation.
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Wikis make collaboration easy and let lawyers jointly author and evolve information. They enable peer-to-peer collaboration so lawyers can share and use forms, checklists and other resources. The key to a successful wiki is the concept of sharing.
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Five telcos were awarded contracts to improve voice, data and other telecom services for federal agencies. The contracts are worth up to $20 billion over 10 years and orders from agencies are expected in late August or early September of this year.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Brocade Communications Systems Inc. became the first company to pay a fine for the improper granting of backdated stock options when it agreed to pay a $7 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the SEC, which filed a civil complaint on May 31 against the computer networking company […]
We recently mentioned the Michigan Law Review’s symposium on the risks and benefits of cameras in the courts. Commenting on the symposium in a post Monday at SCOTUSBlog, University of Minnesota law professor David Stras questioned whether Congress has the…
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It sure sounded like a prescription for trouble. Now the doctor who blogged his own med-mal trial may be wishing he’d taken a cure other than blogging. As we earlier reported here and here, a pediatrician who identified himself only…
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In the constellation of legal bloggers, one of the brightest stars is Instapundit.com, aka University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. So perhaps it was fitting that Reynolds recently shared lunch with another space traveler, astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Another space-loving…
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On April 30, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist wrote a commentary in The Toronto Star in which he discussed two recent defamation lawsuits that he said have the potential to reshape free speech on the Internet in Canada….
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Two weeks ago, I posted about a fee award of nearly $1 million to Skadden for work performed pro bono on behalf of a group of restaurant workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act to recover tips unlawfully withheld by…
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PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania judge on May 31 overturned a jury’s $3 million award to an Ohio couple who alleged that the woman’s use of Wyeth’s hormone replacement therapies caused her to develop breast cancer (Jennie Nelson, et al. v. Wyeth, January 2004 Term, Case No. 01670, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.).
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