Tweet This: EXCLUSIVE: eLessons Learned’s Exclusive Interview with Ms. Laura Zubulake (Part 10)

Interviewed by Catherine Kiernan, Co-Editor in Chief, eLLblog.com Chapter 10  The Step Forward

Authored By: Chris Borchert

Tweet This: Panetta Warns of "Cyber-Pearl Harbor" in Speech to Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

In a speech to the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) on Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta illustrated the increasing likelihood of a possible "cyber-Pearl Harbor," and identified China, Russia, Iran, and militant groups as having increased their aggressiveness and technological advances in the context of cyber warfare.

Authored By: S.A.A.

Citation: Ford Motor Company v. Edgewood Properties Inc., U.S. District Ct. (Salas, U.S.M.J.)

Employee/Employer Implicated: Owner/Executive; Counsel

e-Lesson Learned: With all the new ways in which electronically stored information can be produced, counsel should be specific in the form in which they want or at least object within a reasonable time when it is produced in a form they don’t approve of.

Tweet This: Be Concrete! Court Requires Specificity for eDiscovery in Ford’s Contaminated Concrete Case

Be careful what you ask for…or don’t ask for! Electronic discovery may be something of a new phenomenon when it comes to the discovery of information in preparation of litigation but one idea has always remained constant: discovery requests should always be specific. That’s what Edgewood learned in Ford Motor Company v. Edgewood Properties Inc., a case that arose from a contract in which Ford agreed to provide concrete to Edgewood in return for Edgewood hauling it off the demolition site where a Ford assembly plant in Edison, New Jersey was being demolished. Besides the discovery process, what wasn’t so “smooth” was the concrete, as it later turned out that the concrete was contaminated, thereby bringing about Ford’s claim against Edgewood under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 and the New Jersey Spill Act for “contribution and indemnification for all costs as provided under the contract.”

Tweet This: eLessons Learned is the Official Blog for "Uses and Abuses of Social Media: A Lawyer's Ethical & Professionalism Obligations"

Uses & Abuses of Social Media A Lawyer’s Ethical & Professionalism Obligations / Tuesday, October 16 - 4PM-6PM Federal Courthouse, Newark – Jury Conference Room District Court Judges eLessons Learned (eLLblog.com) is proud to be the official blog of the Federal District Court, District of New Jersey-Newark Vicinage program titled “Uses and Abuses of Social Media: A Lawyer's Ethical & Professionalism Obligations.”

Tweet This: EXCLUSIVE: eLessons Learned’s Exclusive Interview with Ms. Laura Zubulake (Part 9)

Interviewed by Catherine Kiernan, Co-Editor in Chief, eLLblog.com Chapter 9  Zubulake V

Tweet This: EXCLUSIVE: eLessons Learned’s Exclusive Interview with Ms. Laura Zubulake (Part 8)

Interviewed by Catherine Kiernan, Co-Editor in Chief, eLLblog.com Chapter 8   Lost & Found

Tweet This: Conference Recap - "Hot Topics in eDiscovery"

Attendees of "Hot Topics in E-Discovery," an advanced E-Discovery conference hosted by Suffolk University Law School, gained invaluable insight on Friday, as a panel of four National E-Discovery attorneys and two Massachusetts judges addressed a wide range of issues relating to technology and the law. The format was lively and engaging, and included a Mock Rule 26 role playing exercise, reviews of recent social media and preservation case law, and several opportunities for the panelists to field questions from the audience.

Tweet This: EXCLUSIVE: eLessons Learned’s Exclusive Interview with Ms. Laura Zubulake (Part 7)

Interviewed by Catherine Kiernan, Co-Editor in Chief, eLLblog.com Chapter 7:  Zubulake IV

Tweet This: EXCLUSIVE: eLessons Learned’s Exclusive Interview with Ms. Laura Zubulake (Part 6)

Interviewed by Catherine Kiernan, Co-Editor in Chief, eLLblog.com Chapter 6   Zubulake III

Authored By: A.L.

Citation: A.A. v. State of N.J., 176 F. Supp. 2d 274 (D.N.J. 2001) , aff’d and remanded by 341 F.3d 206 (3d Cir. N.J. 2003).

Employee/Employer Implicated: Government

e-Lesson Learned: In New Jersey, the State’s compelling interest in creating an Internet Sex Offender Registry, which grants unrestricted public access to sex offender registry information including the registrant’s home address and a compilation of other information, substantially outweighs the privacy interest’s of such registrants.

Tweet This: “A New Wave of “Megan’s Law” Legislation: Internet Sex Offender Registries”

New Jersey is among the thirty-one states to adopt a sex offender Internet registry web sites as part of “Megan’s Law” legislation.  In 2000, New Jersey implemented new legislation regarding sex offenders.  In A.A. v. State of N.J., convicted sex offenders challenged constitutionality of Article IV, Section 7, Paragraph 12 of the New Jersey Constitution, a state constitutional amendment which authorizes the creation of an Internet sex offender registry (“Registry”), and an amendment to “Megan’s Law” known as the Internet Registry Act, which seeks to implement the Registry and would allow unlimited public access to certain information. The Third Circuit, however, denied the registrants’ motions for preliminary injunctions and held that the state could implement such a registry.