This week, the Miami Herald did a short feature story on La Loggia Ristorante—an Italian restaurant right across from the Miami-Dade County Courthouse—and…
The small software firm i4i limited Partnership punches above its weight. Its clients include heavyweights like Amgen, Bayer, Biogen Idec, Warner Chilcott, Merck and Novo Nordisk. But the Toronto-based firm…
Lawyerist announced yesterday that it has acquired Bitter Lawyer, a humor law blog started by TV writer and producer Rick Eid that stopped updating in…
This week, the 25th annual ABA Techshow took place in Chicago. In an effort to party like it was 1986, a technology museum of sorts was set up for the…
“We cannot escape history,” Abraham Lincoln famously declared in a message sent to Congress in 1862. He firmly believed that the Civil War generation would be “remembered in spite of…
Updated: If anything had the legal blogosphere going this week, it was Joseph Rakofsky, a relatively recent law grad whose poor trial performance as defense counsel in…
Entries for this year’s Peeps in Law Story 3 diorama contest are coming in, and we’ve learned that no subject is too touchy to depict in sugary form. So far…
Some state attorney discipline agencies are heavily regulating how lawyers use rating sites for business development. But how do those rules jive with the less stringent Communications Decency Act of 1996, which says users of such sites aren't liable for content posted by others? ABA Journal podcast moderator Stephanie Francis Ward talks with guests to discuss, among other ethics issues, whether lawyers can/should face discipline for client-written "testimonials."
Perhaps no case could be a more monumental example of the reality of modern e-discovery than the ongoing Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube filed back in 2008. In that…
Apr 1, 2011 10:54 PM CDT
Matthew Knouff: “Backing up your data should not be viewed as a best practice, but as a requirement.” Photo by Sara Stathas
By many measures, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been an American corporate success story. Founded in 1962 in Arkansas by Sam Walton, the company became the nation’s top retailer by revenue…
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