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Digital Dictation Is Simplifying How Lawyers Work
Before the arrival of word processing, typing legal letters and documents was a time-consuming and frustrating task. Every change generally meant retyping an entire page or even an entire document, and a letter could be retyped a half dozen times before it was fit to leave the office.
For lawyers who dictate their work to tape cassettes, dictation has many of the same frustrations. Once the lawyer has finished dictating, the words are fixed in place. She cannot move words around on the tape or drop in new paragraphs. If it's a big job, the lawyer cannot expedite the transcription by simply slicing the tape into two or three segments, and assigning those to separate typists. If he accidentally erases important material, there is no “undo” button to bring it back; and if the tape is lost, there's no back-up server from which it can be recovered.
With the advent of e-discovery, it's impossible to combine today's state of the art e-discovery solutions with yesterday's analog-dictation technology. Having a foot in both worlds is at best inefficient, and at worst can lead to misplaced data or work.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?