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October 22, 2013 |

Drives, Bytes, Baseball and Computer Search Protocols

In his Cyber Crime column, Peter A. Crusco, executive assistant district attorney, investigations division, Office of the Queens County District Attorney, writes: The Major League Baseball steroid scandal revealed a simmering controversy concerning the manner and execution of searches of digital computer evidence, otherwise known as electronically stored information. Perhaps the debate is best summarized in the question, when can the government seize the haystack to look for the needle?
14 minute read
September 26, 2007 |

Dueling Documents: Outside Counsel Guidelines vs. Retention Letters

Dueling may be outlawed, but at the start of an engagement law departments and their law firms sometimes walk back 10 paces, turn and fire. In this country, law departments blast away with their outside counsel guidelines; law firms return fire with their retention letters. Neither document will disappear, but the two sides can take a shot at improving the exchange. Consultant Rees Morrison examines a bit of history on both documents and then considers both sides of the shootout.
6 minute read
April 14, 2010 |

Attorneys help developer get water district settlement

Attorneys Howard Nelson, Cliff Schulman and Juan Muniz reached a $24.5 million settlement with the South Florida Water Management District despite negotiations that could only happen once a month.
6 minute read
June 01, 2006 |

The Art of the Apology

So you screwed up. You hit "reply all" by mistake, you didn't check the facts, the dog ate your closing statement-call it what you will, something bad happened, and rightly or wrongly, the client thinks it's at least partly your fault.
8 minute read
October 07, 2002 |

Janiszewski Bribery Plea Casts a Wide Net

As he pleaded guilty in federal court last Thursday, former Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski named a county politician with ties to Sen. Robert Torricelli and Rep. Robert Menendez as being one of two people who bribed him for his help in steering county work to contractors. The statement was among the signs that the U.S. attorney's probe into Hudson County is far from over.
4 minute read
April 10, 2012 |

During Penn Dedication, Sotomayor Voices One Regret

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told an audience at the University of Pennsylvania of one decision that she regrets to this day: Forgoing a clerkship right out of law school, against the advice of a mentor.
4 minute read
December 12, 2005 |

SOCIAL SERVICES LAW | U.S. can seize Social Security to pay off old student loans

The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously that the government can seize a person's Social Security benefits to pay old student loans.
3 minute read
July 05, 2004 |

Army reservist JAG files class action

A reservist army judge advocate general has filed a federal challenge to the U.S. Army rule that prohibits members of the JAG corps from engaging in the civilian practice of law.
4 minute read
February 19, 2007 |

A veteran advocate offers his tricks of the trade

As an appellate attorney with 15 years in private practice, I hear a common refrain from appellate judges across the country: The overall quality of appellate briefs and oral arguments is too low.
6 minute read

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