All Rise is written by a recovering lawyer, now performing legal research and analysis for one of the cable news networks. He plans to focus on the latest developments in high-profile legal proceedings.
The dangers of using new technology
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Miscellaneous
A Memphis woman was arrested and charged last week with first-degree murder after she bludgeoned her boyfriend to death with an iPod. Apparently, the murder was the result of a domestic dispute after the victim erased the contents of the other’s iPod.
There’s still time to register…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Technology
…for ABA TechShow, the premier legal technology conference. It runs from March 25-27 in Chicago, and it’s just terrific. If you’re not convinced, check out What’s the Big News at ABA TechShow this Year? for a great rundown of what you can expect. I’ll be speaking, as you might imagine, on Internet legal research…
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
IrishLaw is not really a blawg about legal issues in Ireland. It’s really a blawg about politics, culture, Catholicism, and law, from a Domer at Ohio State.
This Old Spam Lawsuit
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet and Technology Law
The first CAN-SPAM lawsuit has been filed — against BobVila.com.
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
It’s a great day for state-law-specific blawgs:
- Matthew Lerner is an attorney with Goldberg Segalla in New York, and he puts his knowledge of New York law to use with his New York Civil Law blawg.
- Farther west is the Colorado Appeals Blog, brought you by Blaine Myhre, an attorney with Isaac, Rosenbaum, Woods
How seriously do YOU take privacy?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Privacy
With a title that makes you want to say “duh,” Study: Identity Theft Worries Consumers reports that despite an increased awareness about the need to protect privacy online, consumers do a consistently poor job of managing their passwords.
Oops
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Privacy
The folks over at the SCO group must not be aware of the dangers of leaving metadata in its documents. In a Word document recovered from the company, the hidden metadata revealed that SCO originally planned to sue Bank of America, not Daimler-Chrysler.
Is Congress limiting access to facts?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet and Technology Law
That’s what some people think. Congress is currently considering the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, which would make it a crime for for anyone to copy and redistribute a substantial portion of data collected by commercial database companies and list publishers. As you might expect, Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw are supporters of the…
What you can do to stop hijacking
By Tom Mighell on
Browser hijacking, that is. When you’re surfing the Internet willy-nilly, it can sometimes be easy to pick up some unwanted guests that take over your web browser, changing your home page, throwing pop-ups at you left and right, and exposing you to unwanted pr0n. As I have mentioned before, use one of the spyware…