Attorney Robert J. Ambrogi reviews three noteworthy new Web sites that target legal professionals. The first is a networking site for lawyers and other professionals. The second helps manage legal transactions. The third is an information hub for corporate legal resources. Take a look.
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Should attorneys exercise caution before becoming “friendly” with adverse witnesses or parties on social networking sites? What ethical issues are raised by an attorney or paralegal seeking the private information of an opposing party by “friending” that party on a Facebook page?
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TYLER, Texas - A Texas trial court had jurisdiction to hear the request for presuit deposition of a man with allegedly terminal silica-related cancer, but it abused its discretion in ordering the deposition without having competent evidence to support the request before it, a state appellate panel held Aug. 17 in granting the prospective defendant’s […]
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Aug. 21 denied a married couple’s partial motion for summary judgment, holding, among other things, that the municipality that the couple allege violated their rights by taking a portion of their property is immune under a state law from the claim that the municipality wrongfully used […]
RICHMOND, Va. - A federal magistrate judge on Aug. 24 granted in part Countrywide Home Loan Inc.’s second motion for summary judgment and dismissed a Virginia couple’s request for damages under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) because the company properly responded to a qualified written request sent by the couple and because their […]
NEW YORK - A group of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations lack standing to bring a constitutional challenge to the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), a New York federal judge ruled Aug. 20 granting the federal government’s motion for summary judgment (Amnesty International USA, […]
As a trial lawyer who spends as much time out of the office as in, Christopher McKinnet needs secure access to his data on the road without spending a small fortune on a customized server system or a small army of IT workers. How is this possible? Simple: His firm is in the cloud.
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Kaplin Stewart, a 35-attorney firm, had no internal help desk. Adelaine F. Williams, chief operating officer, decided to outsource the majority of IT support to a technology firm, and turned to Adaptive Solutions Inc. to pull the help desk picture into focus. She shares the results.
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Each category of software has one application that becomes the standard for comparison: Microsoft Outlook for e-mail, Word for documents and Adobe Acrobat for PDFs. But there are plenty of reasons to use alternatives, says consultant Brett Burney as he reviews Nuance PDF Converter 6.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Chrysler Group LLC announced Aug. 27 that the company will accept product liability claims on vehicles manufactured by Chrysler LLC - now OldCarco LLC - before June 10, 2009, and involved in accidents on or after that date.
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