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Civil Justice Reform - Law Firms Best Practices For Maintaining The Attorney-Client Privilege In Email Communications
You are general counsel of a large corporation with an in-house legal department that, as is now the custom, communicates with outside counsel, business people within the company and among each other using email. To maintain the email system, your company uses both a staff of in-house Information...
Read MoreAvoiding Sanctions In Electronic Discovery
Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, a recognized authority on electronic discovery, has issued another significant decision in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, et al. In an earlier decision, Judge Scheindlin addressed the legal standard...
Read MoreDoing The Biotech Deal - The Three Keys To Success Are Teamwork, Teamwork And Teamwork!
Representing a life sciences client in an acquisition might not be characterized as "rocket science" although many such deals can be quite complicated. The foregoing quote by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), though referring to space projects, is, as the reader will observe...
Read MoreE-Discovery: A Guide For Corporate Counsel - Sills Cummis' Conts1.ution To The Discussion On Electronic Discovery - Part II
Part I of this interview appears in the July 2004 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.Editor: How do you determine what documentation is relevant? Epstein: The first step is to learn as much as possible about the allegations in the Complaint and determine what they mean for the company....
Read MoreE-Discovery: A Guide For Corporate Counsel - Sills Cummis' Contribution To The Discussion On Electronic Discovery - Part I
Part II of this interview appears in the August 2004 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.Editor: Would each of you gentlemen give our readers something of your background and how you came to Sills Cummis? Epstein: I joined the firm in 1976 after having served my clerkship with Judge Edward...
Read MoreAttack Of The Hacks: Using The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act To Stop A Hacker Dead In His Tracks
You are general counsel of a major online retailer. One morning your Chief of Information Technology comes into your office looking pale. He tells you that someone is "hacking" into your company's computer system and accessing restricted files. He says it is impossible to tell whether any files...
Read MoreFYI - A New Enterprise Casino Gaming Is Coming To A Racetrack Near You©
Part I of this article appeared in the May, 2004 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.The United States is in the midst of a significant casino gaming expansion resulting from individual states' needs to reduce their bloated budget deficits. Unlike past periods of robust gaming expansion...
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