With a veritable banquet of predictions to come, including a very substantial first course on 1 December, here is a taster for what is to come. The first predictions are from Kit Burden of DLA Piper (who was the first to submit) and, in honour of St Andrew’s Day, Robert Buchan of Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (who was not far behind)….
In any eDiscovery project, documents can reside on a multitude of data sources collected from many different custodians. The proliferation of electronic documents poses issues of volume which contribute towards increased cost and time requirements in an IT forensic investigation. Andrew Pimlott gives a practical illustration of how combining traditional IT forensics analysis techniques with eDiscovery tools and processes can add value to an investigation….
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Facebook is on the verge of trade marking the word ‘face’…
A US court has awarded enormous damages in a dispute over a breach of IP rights…
Read More… from Massive Damages Award in Oracle/SAP US Litigation
Most of what I have seen about the bomb tweet exaggerates its importance, and misses a couple of crucial points that matter more…
A High Court case has clarified some of the jurisdiction issues relating to online infringement…
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T’is the season to be … predicting (it’s far too early to be jolly) and looking forward. And perhaps an even better season for putting the world to rights…
Our ambition in SCL as a society is to embrace the wider aspects of technology as it applies to the law…
Dervish Tayyip identifies the key problems for cloud computing from an IT lawyer’s perspective and suggests a number of attainable solutions. These are his personal views and not those of Microsoft for whom he is head of UK Legal….
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David Chaplin reports on the SCL Seminar ‘Legal Issues in Financial Services IT Provision’ held at Bird & Bird’s offices on 9 November….