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A Beginner’s Guide to Marketing Law Firms With Online Events

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Chances are, as a law firm marketer, events are part of your marketing mix. Whether entertaining clients at a golf event, displaying your attorney’s knowledge at a conference, networking, or getting your brand out there is...more

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Discovery of Text Messages, IMs, DMs

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Text-messages-as-evidence has been a hot topic in the popular press lately. The Secret Service apparently lost some volume of text messages surrounding January 6 events even after congressional committees had requested...more

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Lead Generation for Lawyers: The Best Campaigns for Every Channel

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Lead generation for lawyers is one of the most important things you can spend time on. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, savvy marketers will create a strategy based on proven channels and an effective...more

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Delaware Court of Chancery Finds that Director’s Email on Outside Email System Remains Confidential

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Delaware Court of Chancery Finds that Director’s Email on Outside Email System Remains Confidential; Delaware Supreme Court Overrules Longstanding Precedent Regarding Derivative Versus Direct Standing; SEC Files Crowdfunding...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Ohio Decision Highlights Importance Of Business Protection Agreements With Independent Contractors

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Just as the distinction between an individual’s status as independent contractor versus employee can have serious ramifications for wage, tax, and other legal issues, the same can be true for claims relating to unfair...more

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New FDCPA Guidance Means Collectors May Be In Your DMs In The Near Future

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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) was passed to protect the rights of debtors and give guidance to collections agencies in their collection efforts. Although it meant to provide clarity, the FDCPA contains many...more

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Texas Amended Rule 106 On Substitute Service: Have You Been Served?

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Attempting to align the Texas legal system with current realities, effective December 31, 2020, Rule 106 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure is amended to allow substitute service by “social media, email, or other...more

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Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

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We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #226 – Beware – Well-Known Brands Used for Phishing Schemes

A new study by Check Point Research shows that cyber criminals are using well-known brands to lure victims into clicking on nefarious links, providing personal information or credentials, or getting users to transfer money....more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Protect Yourself from Phishing Scams, Effective Attorney Bios, and Best Use of LinkedIn

While I recently published this, I cannot stress the importance of due diligence and care before clicking on links in emails. Phishing scams are out of control. If you do nothing else, hover over any links before clicking....more

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Two Murder Investigations in the Last Week Highlight eDiscovery’s Role in Criminal Investigations

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Two recent murder cases have again highlighted the use of electronic forensics to solve cases that only a few decades ago, would have been difficult to crack in the relatively short time frame between the crime and the...more

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A Company’s Facebook Snooping Didn’t Prevent Critical Trade Secrets Injunction

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Can a former employer’s alleged misconduct defeat a request for injunctive relief against former employees when those departing workers take confidential information and clients to another employer? A federal appeals court...more

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Wills, Trusts & Estates: Plain and Simple – What Happens to Social Media and Other Digital Life When You Die?

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Over the holidays, it’s likely that you or a loved one received some type of computer or device that connects to internet websites, email, and applications. Or that pictures were taken and stored on such a device, or that...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #3

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This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more

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Finding Foreign Service Difficult? Look for the Defendant on Facebook

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Your company has entered into a contract with a smaller, foreign company to do business. While your relationship starts off strong, it quickly sours when you discover that the smaller company’s quality standards do not meet...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: AI displaces insurance company employees; revenge-porn victim seeks injunction against search engines; Wendy’s wins...

Over 30 workers at a Japanese insurance company are losing their jobs following the company’s adoption of IBM’s Watson Explorer, an artificial intelligence system that will perform an important back office function at the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #55 – October is National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

I never knew that since 2006, October has been designated as National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, “This year’s Bullying Prevention Awareness Month...more

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How can surviving family members deal with online accounts and other digital assets?

We, as a society, are gradually moving away from paper bank statements, jars with money in them, and instructions to loved ones scribbled on notepads. With the growth of our online presence, our lives can be governed almost...more

Fenwick & West LLP

The Ninth Circuit Holds That Accessing a Website After Receiving a Cease & Desist Letter Is a Violation of the Computer Fraud and...

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Last week, the Ninth Circuit limited the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in affirming a grant of summary judgment against the defendant in Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc., et. al. and affirmed the rule...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: The rise of social news; how technology hijacks our attention; are websites a dying business?

In a fascinating, must-read article, a Google design ethicist explains the techniques that engineers and entrepreneurs employ to keep us hooked on the web. A majority of U.S. adults—62%—now get their news on social...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Time Is Precious with Computer-Hacking Claims

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A recent ruling shows that plaintiffs must act fast when using a federal criminal statute for a civil suit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in August addressed the proper application of the statute of...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

The e-Workplace: Balancing Employer and Employee Rights

Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. YouTube. Blogs. Email. Texts. Social media and the “E-Workplace” have become a fact of life for all employers. Companies have learned that these social media sites can be powerful marketing tools,...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - July 2015

Try, Try Again: Lawmakers Reintroduce Do Not Track Kids Act - A group of federal lawmakers reintroduced the Do Not Track Kids Act, a bill to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), with some changes...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Tuesday – February 2015

Three things you should know on this Privacy Tuesday: Over 110,000 Facebook Uses Hit With Malware - Cybercriminals are targeting Facebook users with malware embedded in videos that are pushed to their timeline...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The National Labor Relations Board 2014 Year in Review - Overview of the Board's Significant Actions

Introduction - If the National Labor Relations Board seemed to be on the ropes in 2013, it certainly came out swinging in 2014. Last year, we reported that the Board faced a number of serious legal battles. Although...more

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