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The Paper-to-Digital Law Firm

Steve Irons

Even though the costs and inefficiencies of paper records are an obvious strain on the law firm business model, law firms struggle with less-paper initiatives for one key reason: according to ILTA members informally surveyed in over 20 cities domestically, about half of today's attorneys would still prefer to work with paper, even if the entire file is digitally available from the DMS.

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Analyzing Advertiser Liability for Blogger Reviews

Ronald R. Urbach, Edward Kabak & Matthew E. Smith

This holiday shopping season, millions of Americans will look to their social media friends or favorite bloggers for advice when deciding which gifts to buy. And with over 42 million blog sites in the United States alone, there are plenty of "peer" opinions to consider. But are consumer-generated product-related reviews or commentary always the mere opinion of the person posting them, as many readers may believe?

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Proactive Information Governance

Rene Laurens

Information governance (IG) is how organizations tackle growing data volumes ' identifying what's important, what isn't, and what to do with it all.

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The Brave New World Of Internet Copyright Trolls

Jonathan Bick

Copyright trolls are in the business of acquiring the right to bring lawsuits against alleged infringers and threatening to file copyright infringement claims in order to induce rapid settlements against large groups of defendants.

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Rocket Matter Case Study

Steve Senentz

Each system reviewed had features that raised the interest of at least one of our testers. Overall though, the most effective criteria we applied was: "Does it work for us?" Did the product function as promised and fit with the way our users envisioned themselves using the system? And I must emphasize the word envisioned because this move was such a departure for some that it was unlike anything they had experienced before. Ultimately, we determined that system to be Rocket Matter.

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Law Firm Security Pressures Alleviated With Financial Strategies

Scott McFetters

We know the consumer-industry stories of hackers infiltrating Target and, more recently, Home Depot. Law firms are now at the center of the storm because they store some of their clients' most sensitive business information and are viewed by criminal elements as a less-defended path to that data. Firms must take care to understand and respond to evolving security trends with response strategies.

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Digital Signatures In the Legal Market

Eliya Fishman

Automated signing solutions are all around us: at the supermarket checkout; when we receive a package; at the doctor's office. Despite this, paper-based signing still finds its way into our regular operations, and too often remains there unquestioned.

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The Copyright Office's Revised Compendium's Views on Digital Content, Copyrightability

Christopher Seidl & William Manske

Much has been written about the so-called "monkey selfie" and the dispute about whether nature photographer David Slater owns a photo snapped by a macaque monkey. As entertaining as that story is, there are more practical and far-reaching consequences that arise out the Copyright Office's overhaul of its standards and practices. This is especially true for the type of digital and Internet-based businesses and technologies that operate on the entertainment industry landscape.

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Don't Be Afraid of Cybersecurity Information Sharing

Kimberly Peretti & Lou Dennig

Recent government action has shown that the White House and Congress are keenly aware of the potential data security benefits of robust information sharing between and among the private sector and the government. In recent years, information sharing bills have been introduced regularly in both the Senate and the House in an effort to encourage the flow of cyberthreat data between the private sector and the government.

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Word 2013: Better by Design

Jeffrey Roach

Word possesses all the ingredients needed to make a much more positive first impression. It just takes a little time, planning and finesse to go from 'blah to bling!'

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