Legal conflicts arise when employee expectations of privacy meet employer controls over technology use in the workplace. Jenner & Block attorneys Carla Rozycki and Darren Mungerson show that technology-use policies are key for employers to maintain their rights to monitor employee technology use.
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The Qualcomm case, in which six attorneys were sanctioned and referred to the Bar for possible ethics violations because EDD wasn’t properly conducted, may cause shock waves beyond California, write Jenner & Block’s Jerold Solovy and Robert Byman, who say if it happened to them, it could happen to you.
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Lawyers are becoming increasingly adept at using convenient technology like laptop computers and wireless networking technology. But when lawyers use public WiFi to access e-mail or client documents, they need to take some basic steps to protect confidential client information.
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Smart phone inventor Palm has announced plans to close all but one of its retail stores. Analysts have dubbed the move a point of no return because Palm has consistently failed to compete effectively against newer market entrants like the BlackBerry from Research in Motion.
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In the near future, microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive or read, allowing retailers to track consumer items and law enforcement to track consumers. This seamless, global network of sniffers is a boon for retailers and a bane for privacy advocates.
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How should the Supreme Court react to the inevitability of technological change, knowing full well that it cannot predict the future any better than the rest of us? The answer to dealing with emerging technologies may lie in the Roberts Court’s professed inclination toward judicial modesty.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A federal judge’s decision to award summary judgment to the maker of Paxil based on the lack of causation evidence should be reversed because the judge erred in finding that an expert’s general and specific causation testimony should be excluded, a woman argues in a Jan. 17 motion (Debra Vanderwerf, et […]
RICHMOND, Va. - A district court judge erred in enforcing an arbitration award that he found to be ambiguous, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 17 (The Burlington Insurance Co., et al. v. Trygg-Hansa Insurance Co. AB, No. 06-2082, 4th Cir.; 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 1008).
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota senator who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after being accused of soliciting sex in a bathroom stall must be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and the charges against him must be dropped because his privacy rights have been violated, the American Civil Liberties Union argues in a Jan. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Internet service providers (ISPs) told the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 17 that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly ruled that Verizon Communications, Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP does not preclude their claims that telecommunications service providers created a price squeeze by charging ISPs a high […]