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The results of the Sixth Annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey are in -- and the winners are mixed. As electronic discovery shifts from a services-based to a software-based approach, there is something for everyone to like, and hate, about where this market is headed.
In May, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals began putting recordings of oral arguments on its Web site. Next month, the 1st Circuit and four other federal courts of appeals will do the same. But the 11th Circuit is bucking the trend, maintaining its recordings are for its use only.
The number of e-filings in the first days of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court's civil system has been a trickle, not a stream, but there were no major problems. The next phase will be programming the system so judges can e-file their orders, instead of mailing out paper notices.
Attorney Robert J. Ambrogi surveys social networking sites specific to lawyers and was struck by how little networking they generate. Compared with open communities that anticipate a mutual benefit, restricted venues sometimes seem like the proverbial parties where no one shows up.
With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat security convention, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room. But three journalists working for a French publication were booted from the conference for allegedly hacking into a private media computer network.
There's no such thing as trade secrets in the legal world thanks to the blogosphere. Salary information, lateral hires and layoffs are likely leaks. One PR specialist advises law firms to take blog postings seriously and, at the least, provide a boilerplate comment for the record.
Consultant Brett Burney sees Web-based word processor Buzzword as a rich collaboration platform for the legal crowd. Lawyers can create a draft of a document in Buzzword and immediately share it online, instead of creating it in Word and sending it as an attachment via e-mail.
The use of non-native restoration systems can overcome many of the hurdles associated with backup tapes, allowing cost-effective identification, restoration and filtering of relevant data from backup tapes without the need to use original software and operating environments.
In the largest case of identity theft in the country, more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by an international ring that hacked into the networks of nine national retail chains. Take a few simple steps to protect yourself from this kind of crime.
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