NYSBA Releases Ethics App

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This week the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) announced the release of a free Mobile Ethics App giving all members of the legal community instant access to ethics advice from the convenience of any smartphone.  The new app features opinions expressed by the State Bar’s Committee on Professional Ethics with [...]

Talk To Me! Android’s Response to Siri

After a first attempt to create its own version of Apple’s trending voice assistant, “Siri,” Google is reportedly working on a new, more sophisticated model to release in early 2012.  The new voice assistant, dubbed “Majel,” will replace Android’s first attempt at a voice assistant app called “Iris” (or Siri in reverse).

Reportedly developed in under [...]

Sampling and E-Discovery

Lindsay Stevens’ recent presentation at the Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum mentioned the importance of sampling to validate the e-Discovery processes starting from collection and data targeting through the review stages. If you would like to know more about statistical sampling, particularly in reference to e-Discovery check out some of the guides provided by litigation organizations [...]

E-Discovery Negligence: Who’s To Blame?

In Thorncreek Apartments III, LLC v. Village of Park Forest (N.D. Ill. Aug. 9, 2011), the Northern District of Illinois concluded that a litigant had been negligent throughout the discovery process of a case and as a result waived privilege on inadvertently produced documents. In this particular case, the defendant failed to check the documents [...]

Google to Forfeit Profits from Illegal Pharm Ads

The US Government is suing Google for $500 million for displaying illegal pharmaceutical ads. This sum represents the revenue Google accrued as a direct result of these advertisements and it makes up 22% of revenue from all advertisements. How could a company under constant public scrutiny make such a big faux pas? By offering tools [...]

How to Look Like a Rube in Three Easy Steps

Josh Gilliland and his always-entertaining “Bow Tie Law’s Blog” turn this week to the case of In re NetBank, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69031 (N.D. Ga. Aug. 7, 2009), in which the producing party went to great lengths to prove to opposing counsel and the court that they knew absolutely NOTHING about e-Discovery.

The Defendants [...]