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<b><i>Practice Tip:</b></i> Managing Your Metadata
New amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ('FRCP') identify electronically stored information, tangible and intangible, as discoverable (relevant, non-privileged) information. This altered landscape, which took shape when the existing rules were amended and the amended rules took effect in December, is one that e-commerce enterprises must size up and become familiar with.
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State Regulation Of Prescriptions Online May Violate Commerce Clause
The New York State Narcotic Bureau of Enforcement is investigating companies in New Jersey, Mississippi and elsewhere for facilitating Internet prescription-medicine transactions. These facilitators include Web site owners, database providers and Internet service providers ' none of which has New York offices, assets or residents. But any indictments or convictions resulting from such New York investigations might be barred by the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause.
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The Patent Marking Statute
Since 1842, U.S. law has required patent owners to provide notice of their patent rights to the public by marking patented articles. The current statute, codified at 35 U.S.C. '287(a), provides that a failure to mark bars a patentee from obtaining damages for the period before it provided a defendant in a patent infringement action with actual notice of its infringement allegations. This can have a significant financial impact, as up to six years of potential damages may be lost.
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Web Networks Reprogram Law Firm Marketing
Experts see social networks as the next wave of business opportunities to come from the Web ' opportunities that are being exploited by small startups and companies as large as The Coca-Cola Co.
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Man Fired for Visiting Adult Chat Room Sues and Claims Addiction<br>RIAA Denounces New Fair Use Bill
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<i>Technology in Marketing</i>: What Law Firms Can Learn from How the Swiss Sell Cheese
Law firms don't sell cheese or perfume ' they sell expertise. So how does one provide prospective clients with a 'taste' or 'spray' of something so intangible? The same question could be asked concerning existing clients. Given the marketing axiom that it is more cost-effective to generate additional business from existing clients than to sign up new accounts, how does a firm cross-sell other areas of expertise to existing clients whose exposure to the firm has been limited thus far to a single practice area?
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Computer Forensics for Your Firm
Along with e-discovery, the field of computer forensics is becoming evermore central to the discovery process. The need for computer forensics analysis is appearing frequently at the state and federal level, and the field's influence and demands are permeating civil and criminal cases, both large and small.
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Must-Sue TV
Not to be left behind, the legal community is actively engaged in the ever-expanding blogoshpere. With more than 1000 active legal blogs on the Web, firms and attorneys recognize the value of blogs as unique marketing and business development tools. However, for a blog to be beneficial, it must distinguish itself from the diluted market through creativity, consistency, and a strategic media plan.
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Protecting Your Firm Against Internet Threats
Everyone today is on high alert about the threats of Internet fraud, identity theft and white-collar crime ' or if not, they should be. Internet criminals are constantly cultivating new tactics, and law enforcement entities are doing everything they can to head them off.
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Myth-Busting the New Amended Federal Rules
Wherever you turn these days, there seems to be a new CLE seminar being offered or white paper being written on the 'sweeping changes' to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as they relate to the discovery of electronically stored information.<br>And most of them are tied together by a common thread: an alarmist air of hype.
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