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Each year, The 's annual survey of law firm libraries highlights the challenges librarians have faced over the past year. They have seen the nature of their work evolve; many now spend as much time assisting with competitive intelligence as with legal research.
The Black Hat 2008 conference was full of up-to-the-minute information on computer security research and vulnerabilities. Consultants Brian Dykstra and Keith Jones look at the news and events from the show, including zero-day exploits and DNS and VPN insecurities.
The sheer size of e-discovery is a symptom of the proliferation of data in the digital era. To avoid drowning in a sea of information, put technical experts in teams to help with the initial organization and ongoing interaction of information and materials required at trial.
The Supreme Court, usually an also-ran as a presidential election issue, got some significant attention at Rev. Rick Warren's televised Saddleback Civil Forum on Saturday night. Instead of asking Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain whom they would appoint to the high court, Warren asked both candidates which of the current justices they would not have appointed. Neither hesitated in giving an answer -- and Obama is already catching flak for his appraisal.
A federal judge said Monday he was prepared to hold the CIA in civil contempt over the destruction of videotapes in which high-level al-Qaida detainees were interrogated abroad. But the judge said at a hearing that he would give the government 10 days to produce a declaration to convince him why he should refrain from a contempt finding and from ordering production of a list of the tapes, information on witnesses and any documents or memoranda relevant to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request.
Class action firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll has struck a deal with insurance provider FirstAssist Legal Protection in the U.K. to offer after-the-event insurance for cartel claims. The venture, dubbed "Cartel Key," is the first of its kind in the U.K. and will insure clients affected by cartel claims against the risk of adverse costs, which have traditionally prevented civil cartel claims from arising in the U.K.
Former White House chief counsel Harriet Miers is now a lobbyist for the Embassy of Pakistan and the Pakistan Peoples Party. On her foreign agent registration short form for Locke Lord Strategies, a subsidiary of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, the former Supreme Court nominee cites her work as part and parcel of Locke Lord's effort to "promote better understanding of the country's recent political, social, and economic developments" and line up state visits to Washington.
New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto has failed to escape a suit alleging he trampled the civil rights of a former classmate of his son. At the same time, a county judge dismissed all the classmate's claims against the state and the judiciary, ruling that since the accusations had to do with actions Rivera-Soto allegedly took as a private individual, the state can't be liable. She also said the state and Rivera-Soto in his official capacity are immune under the state Civil Rights Act of 2004.
An old lawsuit on record at a city courthouse shows a moment of friction between John McCain's mother and his ex-wife. Although records clearly list the plaintiffs, McCain's presidential campaign staff says his mother's 1980 lawsuit -- to reclaim personal items following McCain's divorce -- was filed "unintentionally." The campaign also says the senator didn't know about or authorize an unrelated 1990 lawsuit in which he and his former wife presented a united legal front over other matters.
Each year, The 's annual survey of law firm libraries highlights the challenges librarians have faced over the past year. They have seen the nature of their work evolve; many now spend as much time assisting with competitive intelligence as with legal research.
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