Cisco E-Book Delivers Ethics on the Go

Cisco systems converts its Code of Business Conduct to an e-book so its 73,000 employees get quick advice. By Ruth Savolaine Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, May 21, 2013 Cisco Systems Inc. offers information technology and network infrastructure for the internet. Our products and services support online connectivity and collaboration for business, education, government, and home [...]

Collaboration Is Key to Defending Cyberattacks

Chief security and legal officers look at collaborative defenses to enterprise cyberattacks. By Sean Doherty All Articles, Law Technology News, May 21, 2013 Collaboration appeared to be the best defense to cyberattacks on private enterprises at the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Legal Officer (CISO/CLO) Summit on Monday, entitled “Defending the Enterprise.” The CISO/CLO Summit, held at Rosen [...]

Silicon Startups

Stanford Law School has a new role — as an incubator for innovative legal technology. By Tam Harbert All Articles, Law Technology News, May 20, 2013 Stanford University is a legendary breeding ground? for startups — Silicon Valley giants Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. all came out of the Palo Alto, Calif., institution’s computer [...]

Hands on: New Google Maps make maps interesting again

PC World – Armando Rodriguez@megapenguinx, May 16, 2013 9:30 AM We may not have a new version of Android to drool over, but at least we’ve got more feature-filled, better-looking maps. At its Google I/O keynote Wednesday morning, Google announced an enhanced version of its popular Google Maps service. The demos shown on stage drew some [...]

Tech Circuit: Enron’s Toxic Sandbox Edition

Does the public Enron email database have too much private information? By Monica Bay Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, May 6, 2013 CEO John Martin announced on Tuesday that he had “discovered” personally-identifiable information while working in the Enron sandbox with his company’s namesake document analysis software, BeyondRecognition. In his blog post, and in a [...]

International Standard Project for E-Discovery Approved

International Organization for Standards approved an e-discovery project. By Steven Teppler All Articles, Law Technology News, April 30, 2013 A technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, gave final approval for the development of an international standard for the discovery of electronically stored information at its meeting last week hosted by the European [...]

Android or iPhone?

By John Edwards Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, April 24, 2013 Attorneys often find themselves operating in separate camps, such as plaintiff-defendant, prosecution-defense, civil-criminal, private-public and, perhaps most contentiously, Android-iPhone. While both iPhones and Androids deliver a smartphone experience that keeps attorneys connected wherever they go, each platform takes a unique and sometimes idiosyncratic approach to [...]

Three New Year’s resolutions for PC users

Rick Broida@justrick - for PC World, 12/21/12 A new year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: resolutions. For most folks, these tend to be of the “get in shape” or “quit smoking” variety. But if you’re a PCWorld reader, consider adding some PC-specific resolutions to the mix. I have three suggestions for improving [...]

Avvo Aims to ‘Ignite’ Lawyer Websites With Marketing

By Sean Doherty All Articles, Law Technology News, November 13, 2012 Avvo, a lawyer rating and directory service and forum for legal questions and answers, has launched Avvo Ignite, a new website service for lawyers designed to market legal services and retain new clients. The Seattle-based company claims it has 125,000 attorneys in its community [...]

Election 2012 Lessons for the Business Use of Big Data

By William A. Tanenbaum All Articles, Law Technology News, November 12, 2012 The presidential election offers practical lessons to companies planning to profit from Big Data. The data-driven get-out-the-vote operations illustrate the four steps in Big Data: (i) data collection; (ii) analytics based on the data collected; (iii) business decisions based on the analytics; and [...]