Posted on October 15, 2007 by Rick Wolf
By Paul D. Weiner and Mary Kay Brown
Imagine having to tell your client that it must pay more than $1 billion in damages. Imagine now that such a verdict was the direct result of multiple sanctions imposed by the court for discovery violations resulting from the failure to preserve and produce electronic information. If there [...]
Filed under: ECM, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Jury Trials, Law Firms, e-Discovery | Tagged: Corporate compliance, Corporate governance, Criminal Investigations, Data Privacy and Security, Litigation management, Records Management Policy Development | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2007 by Rick Wolf
By Ruth E. Piller, Litigation News Associate Editor
Corporate legal clients once again seem to be developing an affinity for small law firms—notwithstanding the merger mania of recent years and the perception that large corporations want only to hire megafirms. With increasing frequency, the chief legal officers of leading corporations are now retaining small law firms [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2007 by Rick Wolf
By John Woolfolk
Mercury News
Bosses will probably find other ways to get under your skin, but thanks to California lawmakers they won’t be allowed to stick little electronic ID badges into your flesh.
A bill by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Friday, bars California employers and others from forcing people to [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2007 by Rick Wolf
By SUE SHELLENBARGER
When U.S. Cellular’s chief operating officer, Jay Ellison, imposed a “no email Friday” rule at his company, he thought it would ease workers’ overload. Instead, he got a rebellion. Among many irate responses, Kathy Volpi, a marketing director, confronted Mr. Ellison and “just ripped me,” he says. “She really gave me a piece [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2007 by Rick Wolf
By Martha Neil
Lawyers at a Vermont firm that represents clients being held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan believe the federal government may be wiretapping their law office phones.
So Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick sent a letter to other clients of the firm on Oct. 2, warning them it can’t [...]
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