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Attorneys looking to fulfill Arizona’s mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements now have the option to schedule free CLE courses in the comfort of their own firms or corporations. TERIS Phoenix, a full-service litigation support provider, is offering free CLE courses on eDiscovery and forensics issues to Arizona-based law firms and in-house counsel. TERIS has…

Attorneys looking to fulfill Arizona’s mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements now have the option to schedule free CLE courses in the comfort of their own firms or corporations. TERIS Phoenix, a full-service litigation support provider, is offering free CLE courses on eDiscovery and forensics issues to Arizona-based law firms and in-house counsel. TERIS has…

Privacy, digital communications, appropriate work activities and the Fourth Amendment collide as a California police officer sues – and loses – for being disciplined for texting too much on the job. The Problem Ontario, California SWAT team member Jeff Quon is probably like most other tough, courageous and valiant police officers except for one small…

Legal firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher surveyed 103 cases in the first six months of 2010, identified and analyzed eDiscovery trends, and published their findings in their 2010 Mid-Year Electronic Discovery and Information Law Update. Their key findings include: Continuing a trend that started last year, the dominant themes in eDiscovery circles were that inseperable…

Last week, MessagingArchitect.com highlighted a Lexology report that has ramifications for everyone involved in the eDiscovery space – including lawyers, corporations, consultants, project managers, and more. The report, citing a January 2010 New York Federal Court ruling, made it clear that a party’s legal obligation to preserve digitial documents goes beyond the question of intentional…

While the letters B and P are unto themselves harmless, everyday consonants, stick ‘em together and as if by magic (not the good kind) you instantly have one of the most controversial companies of our time; possibly all time, given that the complete fallout from BP’s oil crisis hasn’t even been identified — let alone…

As Matt Damon’s character “Rudy Baylor” dryly narrated in The Rainmaker, lawyers tend to be okay with lawyer jokes – in fact, some wear them like a badge of honor (hey, you don’t hear all that many firemen, pool cleaner, or librarian jokes, do you?). So in that spirit, and because it’s Friday, here are…

As the legal marketplace becomes more competitive and fragmented, and prospective clients become more sophisticated and aware of brand distinctions, legal professionals need to create focused marketing programs that differentiate them from the crowd, while connecting them with quality prospects who are looking for quality legal counsel. But the thing is, legal skills are not…

While tinkering with personal photos to get rid of red eye is (usually) good clean harmless stuff, Scientific American has pointed out that fraudulently manipulating photos is a serious cyber crime issue. It’s so serious, in fact, that the relatively new field of digitial forensics was created to uncover evidence that separates the bogus from…

While social media is fast becoming a permanent part of the corporate communication landscape, there is increasing concern about how unprotected and uninformed most businesses are about eDiscovery risks posed by popular social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and cloud-based applications, just to name a few. In its report of a study by the Economist…