In a simpler time, defending your company typically meant slogging
through litigation. Your adversary is now a self-appointed cyberspace vigilante. On the internet, the juiciest material doesn’t come from the networks or newspapers, it comes from one of over 70 million internet blogs and user-created websites. It comes from individuals who post whatever they
want.
Understanding that the internet is both everywhere and nowhere, it is important for in-house attorneys, as well as all company decision-makers, to know the issues surrounding identity theft online, and the regulations placed on internet advertising that companies need to monitor. This article is intended to help you come up with your own internet-related regulations to protect privacy, identify and punish violators, and protect and stimulate commerce.
Corporate counsel must understand the relevant technology and the risks that it poses, and create, adopt, and enforce a policy that minimizes the risks without causing bigger problems. This article will help you do just that.
Corporations are facing new challenges in litigation due to the changes in case law, and the recently passed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). This is changing corporate infrastructures and expanding SERVICES and technologies offered by electronic discovery providers. Read on to find out how this new landscape in litigation affects your job as in-house counsel.
The amendments to the pretrial discovery rules of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, enacted after almost five years of work, are supposed to clarify how to handle electronically stored information. Even the drafters acknowledged that the old discovery rules were not clear. However, the new rules are likely to stimulate a new breed of complex discovery dispute.
This article describes the author's knowledge management experience, using the language of his Southern relatives.
In this ACC guide, explore suggestions on assisting your legal and non-legal staff in their efforts to protect the company's attorney-client and work product privileges under US law. Learn about attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product privilege, the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and general tips.
This is the second of two columns lightheartedly assessing technologies, measurement tools, and outside counsel management techniques specifically for the people in legal departments.
This article discusses new contractual questions that arise with new technologies like email.
A shared intranet will provide you with easy access to legal resources, documents, and work product, but what are the risks? What are the risks of a shared intranet to the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine? What steps should you take to reduce those risks?