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Can Your Doctor Block Your Access to Your Medical Records?

No. In every state, your health care provider must provide you with a copy of your medical records if you ask for them....more

Document Retention Is Paramount in New Jersey Business Litigation

Document Retention Is Paramount in New Jersey Business Litigation by Christine M. Vanek on July 2, 2012 A recent decision by a New Jersey appeals court highlights the importance of document retention during business...more

California Extends Privacy Protection to Confidential Settlement Agreements

The good news: The case has settled and the settlement agreement is confidential. The bad news: Another lawsuit arises and the confidential settlement agreement is requested in discovery. The dilemma: Honor the...more

Sample Disclosure - Attorney / Client Privilege - Use of Email / Texting to Communicate

This is a sample client disclosure concerning the use of email and texting as a means of communicating between attorney and client; it's potential impact on the attorney - client privilege and a response to ABA Formal Ethics...more

Sample client disclosure concerning attorney-client email communicaitons

This is a sample client disclosure concerning the use of email and texting as a means of communicating between attorney and client; it's potential impact on the attorney - client privilege and a response to ABA Formal Ethics...more

IL CONSENSO INFORMATO IN PSICHIATRIA

La prassi clinica e psichiatrica non può e non deve discostarsi da quelli che sono i fondamenti legali e disciplinari della relativa competenza specialistica....more

Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation Round Up - May 26, 2011

Here’s what other personal injury and workers’ compensation lawyers have been talking about over the past few weeks: Are Congress’s Med Mal Reform Efforts Unconstitutional? (TortsProfBlog) North Carolina Proposes to...more

Mistakes Lawyers Make That Could Put Your Confidential Information Into The Hands of Identity Thieves

In each of the following mistakes, ask yourself whether you think a receptionist, delivery person, or cleaning crew could get their hands on your confidential legal documents. I think you'll agree that any one of these...more

Ethical Juggle of a Maryland Lawyer

An overview of some of the ethical concerns of attorney client privilege from the blog of http://fgalaw.com....more

Your Workplace Computer Is A Lonely Public Roadway

According to the third district appellate court in Holmes v. Petrovich, 2011 DJDAR 671, your office privacy is a lonely public roadway. And where the limits are clearly posted, you had better obey—no matter what kind of...more

DEPOSITIONS-ARE THEY IN LEGAL JEAPORDY

This document is a re-print article from the ED Legal Letter titled: :"DEPOSITIONS: ARE THEY LEGAL JEOPARDY?"...more

Online Privacy Considerations (And Outrages) for Lawyers to Ponder

When I discuss my privacy concerns with people, frequently the response I get is "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?" I'll tell ya why I care. Just because something's private doesn't mean it's bad or...more

HVB Blurb (What's on your office copier?)

This document contains links to an article concerning an investigation by CBS Evening News into privacy concerns associated with digital office copiers....more

Complying with PIPEDA in Canada

Compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act On January 1, 2001, Part I of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5 (“PIPEDA”) came...more

"TWEET" THIS: The Ethics of Social Networking

This article explores the ethical concerns created by the explosion of social networking as it relates to law firm marketing, confidentiality and privilege. ...more

Lawyers Beware: Take action now to protect healthcare information or risk stiff penalties!

Beginning February 17, 2010,lawyers who represent clients in the healthcare industry face new statutory obligations to take affirmative steps to ensure the privacy of their clients’ patient information when it is transmitted...more

Cyberspace in the Workplace

This article examines two cases which require companies to have clear Internet and E-mail use and monitoring policies to avoid violating the Stored Communications Act and/or an employee’s right to privacy. ...more

Legal Dilemmas of Social Networking, Part 3: Deceptive Practices and Ethical Concerns

As I stated in Parts 1 and 2 of this series, these posts are based on the day-long conference entitled Social Networking: Friends or Foes? (now on MP3) hosted by the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, the...more

ASSET PROTECTION 101

Asset Protection basics that every attorney, advisor and CPA should know. Written as an educational piece for both advsiors and thier clients....more

One Example Of Treatment Of The Dissemination Risk Under E&O Coverage: Consideration of Finn v. National Union, 452 Mass. 690...

A rogue worker's gift to the "hacker community" held not covered under litigation service provider's E&O insurance as an excluded misappropriation of trade secret according to a recent Massachusetts SJC decision(Finn v. Nat'l...more

Paul vs. Providence Health System-Oregon

Appellants' Opening Brief Oregon Court of Appeals

Providence Health System's employee took unencrypted computerized medical records on some 350,000 patients to his home left them overnight in a car. A car prowler stole the tapes. Oregon patients filed a class action...more

Teleradiologie. Enkele juridische implicaties van een nieuw fenomeen (Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht 2008, 3)

In Dutch. Veel afdelingen radiologie staan voor de keuze: de huidige manier van werken continueren of gebruikmaken van een ‘nieuwe’ toepassing op het gebied van de telegeneeskunde: teleradiologie. Teleradiologie...more

Memorandum: Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Case Law concerning Private Right of Action based on Statutory Duty

Review of memo entitled: “Case Law Concerning Implied Private Right of Action Based on Statutory Duty to Report Possible Child Abuse,” along with appropriate federal and state case law. Presented to Oregon Joint Judiciary...more