Do you know about your firm or company policy? "According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk. "More than a third of U.S. companies surveyed also said their business was hurt by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing...
Planning to protect data & business documents in wake of 2005 storms: "The fear of losing everything on its computer system drove Locke Liddell & Sapp to spend more than $300,000 so the information on its computers is stored on a nightly basis, said David F. Taylor, who was the law firm's administrative partner and is now head of the corporate section. That way, if the Houston office...
So said Patricia Glaser, a name partner at embattled Christensen Glaser when talking about a recent raise for associates: "Two Los Angeles law firms recently raised their first-year associate salaries while facing key partner departures and a federal criminal probe into whether lawyers engaged in illegal wiretapping. "Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, whose top...
Gotta like it when people fight silly fees: "Like most controversies, the debate over the much-despised FLREA or RAT Act, as named by its critics (short for Recreation Access Tax), has ended up in the courtroom. One hiker's refusal to pay a $5 fee to park along a road through a national forest could bring the entire national fee-charging program crashing down. "But that didn't stop...
Brief leaks into through bad redaction -- will people ever learn? "Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program, CNET News.com has learned. "AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions...
More reasons to go to Houston (never mind the heat, the Houstonian is fab!): "Data Reign, the distributor of the data and document management software CaseSeeker, announced today it will showcase CaseSeeker to the public during the 'Paralegal SuperConference' in Houston. "The Houston Paralegal SuperConference is a day-and-a-half event with over 35 workshops and sessions featuring...
All we can say about this profile is "wow!" "For 20 years Elms College students have learned from the words of legal studies professor Katherine Currier, and they are not alone. "Currier's text, Introduction to Law for Paralegals: A Critical Thinking Approach, is used by more than 150 colleges and universities, and was released this year for its third edition. "Currier...
Conference addresses dangers lurking in cyberspace: "Confidentiality breaches, identity theft, and loss of proprietary data online are among the biggest security threats today to law firms and their clients. "According to Patricia Eyres, a Phoenix and Los Angeles based attorney, law firms suffer losses of intellectual property, privacy, and piracy through lack of consistently...
Another "who knew?" news article, this time from the Fiji Times: "THIRTY-THREE community workers will learn about the Family Law Act and the newly established Family Court in a training program from May 22-26. "The training program has been organised by the Fiji Women's Rights Movement and will be held at the Pacific Theological College in Suva. "Movement director...
Who knew? At just one Air Force base, 100 paralegals work as claims specialists: "Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley recently re-designated the Air Force Legal Services Agency as the Air Force Legal Operations Agency. "This and other changes in the Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps are part of a new business concept being implemented by Secretary of the Air Force...