2005

Preserving client confidences is an important part of a lawyer’s professional life. Hopefully we all instruct our staff frequently about the importance of maintaining confidentiality. Documenting instructions about confidentiality can have at least two benefits: 1) More formality serves to impress staff even more with the significance of the discussion and 2) Documentation can aid …

The final Star Wars movie is now playing in the theaters. But how many lawyers would want their assignment to be as a "Death Star Pilot?" For an interesting tale of major league electronic discovery, read the Corporate Counsel feature "This is Spinal Tech."

From the article: "The electronic review conference room was like the…

Effective this week (June 1) a new Federal Trade Commission regulation requires the destruction of sensitive information dervived from consumer credit reports. This regulation specifically applies to attorneys as well as other businesses. Hopefully, most law firm procedures already comply with the new rules due to concerns of client confidentiality. But those with bankruptcy and…

This year the prestigious Technolawyer @ Awards have added two new categories to their annual rankings of lawyer’s favorite products and services. These are Favorite Practice Management Blog and Favorite Practice Area Blog. As you can imagine, I have some interest in this poll, particularly since they have released a status report today showing I’m…

Redaction is the removal or obscuring of certain text before releasing a document to the public. With paper documents, it is pretty simple. Just take a black Magic Marker and color over the text and then make a photocopy of it. Redacting PDF documents doesn’t work quite the same way. Recently the Pentagon released a…