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Electronic Privacy and the Supreme Court
The Corporate Counselor
Electronic privacy in the workplace is a tangled subject, with only a few sure footholds for employers. Attorneys are hoping a Supreme Court ruling will provide unifying guidance on employer monitoring of employee text messages in a case currently under consideration by the justices.
President's Corner
Toronto-based Gavel & Gown Software has introduced its Amicus 2010 line of practice management software that includes a premium and small firm edition of Amicus Attorney 2010, as well as Amicus Accounting 2010 and Amicus Mobile 2010, reports president Ron Collins.
Amicus Attorney’s upgraded calendar helps users track adjournment histories and helps users prioritize events and deadlines. A file manager helps users assign specific actions to files.
Blog News
Clinching the Concept of Concept Search
- EDD Update
Social Media or the Internet Alone Won't Help You Find a Job
- MyShingle
What Does a TRO Look Like to Preserve and Produce ESI?
- Bow Tie Law's Blog
Columns
BALL IN YOUR COURT
EDD Bill Of Rights
Law Technology News
There's a move afoot to revamp e-discovery rules, observes attorney and EDD special master Craig Ball. But dig beneath the efforts at "reform" and you'll find familiar corporate interests, as well as attorneys ready to dodge the hard and humbling task of acquiring new skills.
WEB WATCH
Poised to Pounce?
Law Technology News
If Google fills up RSS readers and commands e-mail, blogging, and search platforms, attorney Robert J. Ambrogi asks lawyers if they should worry about a Big Brother. And that's before considering the fact that Google Scholar has added case law to its scholarly works.
People
Canaan Himmelbaum Joins Fios
Law Technology News
Canaan Himmelbaum has joined Fios as a sales manager on the East Coast.
DTI Names Andreas Mueller a Managing Partner
Joseph Scott Joins OLP Board
David Baker Exits Baker Robbins
Geller Data Gets Keith Vallely
Gregory Perleberg Joins Mansfield Tanick
From The Web
3rd Circuit to Mull Privacy of Cell Phone Data
The Legal Intelligencer
All That User-Generated Content? 95 Percent Is Malware, Spam
Ars Technica
Why Online Education Will Surpass Traditional Face-to-Face Education in the Next 5 to 10 Years
E-Discovery Team
The Corner Office
The easier an application is to use, the greater the risk that its use will have unintended consequences. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will make it easy to bring social networks into organizations. So now is the time to begin fashioning policies and strategies to safeguard SharePoint, without unduly hampering its features to easily create sites and share content.
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Video
LegalTech Video Sneak Preview
ALM's Henry Dicker joins Law Technology News' editor Monica Bay for a special sneak preview of LegalTech New York (Feb. 1-3).
Product News & Reviews
Opening the Doors to Office 2010
Special to Law.com
Now in beta and available for download, Microsoft Office 2010 comes with a number of enhancements to its suite, including an expansion of its Ribbon architecture, and the first ever web-based versions of its most popular applications. John K. Waters takes a walk through the new Office.
Companies
HP TRIM 7 Focuses on Microsoft SharePoint
Law Technology News
Hewlett-Packard added two new modules to TRIM 7, that aim to mitigate the risks of using SharePoint as a collaborative means to generate and share content, as well as embrace Web 2.0 technology like blogs and wikis.
Mimosa Banks With NearPoint
Legal Files Software Adds 6 Organizations to Client Roster
Calif.'s Bankruptcy Management Solutions Rolls Out Zeacom
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