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Your Phone Knows More About you Than you Mom Does
Ad Age recently posted an article addressing the meteoric rise and overwhelming dominance of the smartphone. At the end of this holiday season, over 50 percent of mobile phone users will be using a...
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Taking a Page out of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver, a chef and a child advocate focused on ensuring kids receive proper nutrition through their school lunch programs as well as at home, has a television show, Jamie Oliver’s Food...
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Unveiling the Medical Records Plaintiff Does Not Want You to Find
It is not surprising that plaintiffs claiming to be injured in auto accidents are often evasive about their prior medical history and treaters. In an article published by the American Medical...
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CPSC May Get New Commissioner: President Obama Nominates Marietta Robinson to...
When Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Thomas Moore retired in October 2011 after serving three terms, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was split evenly along party lines. There were...
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Health Care Providers and Social Media: Too Risky?
A recent article published on socialmediatoday.com suggests that unlike other professional industries, health care providers have been slow to engage on social media. The article posits that the key...
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Courts and Social Media
A year ago we published an article in The Whisper titled Please Jurors, Check Your iPhone With The Bailiff (Vol. 7, Issue 2.) The article discussed the increasingly frequent problem of jurors' use of...
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Is Google Googling You?
If you use the Google search engine (and I’m guessing that includes pretty much everyone) you may have noticed a text box appearing on the screen during the past couple weeks, imploring you to read...
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There's an App for That! Apps that Share User Data
Three law firms based in Austin, Texas recently filed suit on behalf of 13 people claiming that almost 20 apps, including Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp and Twitter, violate policies put in place by...
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Expert Witnesses in Mass Torts - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
With recent amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 and a proliferation of Motions to Strike/Exclude Expert Testimony under the Court’s responsibility as a gatekeeper of information that is to...
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New Google Service - Creative or Creepy
Google recently launched a new service called Google Now that is available to users of its most current mobile operating system, Android Jelly Bean. Google Now automatically creates and presents a...
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Apple, Samsung and Possible Sanctions
Apple recently asked a judge hearing a patent infringement case to sanction attorneys for Samsung after those attorneys issued a press release with a link to documents that had been ruled inadmissible....
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Apple v. Samsung - What Happened - What's Next?
On Friday, August 24, a nine member jury entered a verdict in favor of Apple and awarded almost $1.05 billion in damages. Apple filed suit against one of its largest competitors, Samsung Electronics,...
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Ethics 20/20: The Impact of Technology
Every day, we see the impact of technology on the practice of law. Blogs, social networking, electronically stored information, and other legal resources create enormous economies and unprecedented...
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RETAILERS WHO “SPY” BEWARE
Retailers providing consumers with electronics on a rent-to-own basis face many challenges in ensuring that they are paid for the electronics that they rent. In particular, computers are small and...
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Rent to Own Computers and the FTC
Wired Magazine recently reported that seven rent-to-own companies and a software manufacturer are settling charges with the Federal Trade Commission. The charges claimed that computers rented from the...
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E-Discovery Can be Criminal
On December 18, 2013, Kurt Mix, a former BP engineer was convicted 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(1); which prohibits individuals from “corruptly… alter[ing], destroy[ing], mutliat[ing] or conceal[ing] a record,...
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Machines vs. Lawyers: How Lawyers Could Lose Business to Technology
In his recent article in City-Journal, Northwestern University Law Professor John McGinnis hypothesizes that recent and impressive technological advances will have an increasingly disruptive impact on...
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Understanding Illinois' New Ediscovery Rules
On May 29th the Illinois Supreme Court adopted rules relating to the discovery of electronically stored information for use in state court proceedings. The rules go into effect on July 1st. Here is...
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