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<b><i>Product Review</b></i> Corprasoft Legal Desktop
For a busy corporate law department, any matter management system that helps to monitor various activities and streamline the management of legal affairs is a valuable tool indeed. But what happens if you have to start from scratch in the deployment of that system? What if you have to leave the familiarity of your existing management system and convert to an entirely new platform?
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IT Security: It's Now or Never
Information technology security is a critical issue for all law firms. Yet, security initiatives are often dismissed as high cost/low return and put on the back burner. This low priority status persists despite the significant operational and financial impact a security breach would have on a firm. It is only when a major event such as the recent confluence of the Northeast blackout and the Blaster and SoBig worm attacks, or the nefarious actions of a disgruntled employee hit the public consciousness that attention rapidly re-focuses on security matters.
Sorry Airlines! Let's Take Legal Meetings Online
I can see it now: U.S. airlines continue to struggle because some of their most frequent fliers - attorneys - are turning in their wings. No longer do we need to fly nearly as often to client meetings or to interview key witnesses on our most pressing cases. Why? We now have e-meetings, specifically e-meetings from Tempe, AZ-based VIACK Corporation. Sad for the airlines; good for us!
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<b><i>Practice Tip</b></i>Smart Tags Elevate Word Docs IQ and Integration
One of Microsoft's key design goals when developing Office XP was to give users more control over their day-to-day work flow and to make the ever expanding feature sets of the Office applications more readily accessible to the average user. The impetus behind technologies such as Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and the more recent COM and ActiveX technologies were to allow for individual Office applications such as Word and Excel to share data and to work together more seamlessly. Smart Tags, a new feature introduced with Office XP, takes this technology to the next level.
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First Charges Filed under New Internet Porn Law
The first prosecution under a new law designed to prevent the use of misleading Internet addresses to lure children to pornographic sites was announced this month by U.S. Attorney James B. Comey.
Q&A with the RIAA
Despite all the publicity and numerous articles on the subject of the RIAA's lawsuits against music downloaders, some questions we thought important to Internet Law & Strategy users were left unanswered. So Managing Editor Steven Salkin, Esq. placed a call to the RIAA and spoke with Mitch Glaser, Senior Vice President, Government Relations to get the answers.
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Web Watch: A Supreme Collection of High Court Resources
One controversy not on the Supreme Court's agenda when it begins its new term the first Monday in October is the legality of downloading MP3s. Too bad. Had it been, you could have downloaded the oral arguments in this popular audio file-sharing format
Inside the RIAA Suits
Until recently, it was generally believed that public relations and business concerns would prevent large copyright holders, such as record labels, from suing file sharers, who are also likely to be their consumers. Copyright owners have long avoided suing direct infringers for file-sharing due to obvious concerns: The cost and the negative publicity associated with filing multiple lawsuits against individual users would be overwhelming. However, this month, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed 261 civil complaints against people who have allegedly distributed copyrighted music on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
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Changing the Rules: Requiring Franchisee Compliance with Future Performance Standards
In today's world, franchisors frequently design franchise contracts to govern relations with franchisees for several years. As a result, it is critically important that franchisors be permitted to set reasonable performance requirements, not only for the present, but periodically over the life of the agreement.
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