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Michael Gold’s article "What the Courts Want You to Do About Information Technology and What You Can Get Out of It" (co-authored by Nevin Sanli) appeared in the February 2007 edition of Sanli, Pastore & Hill’s Valorem Principia – The Principles of Value.
In a much-watched case, the Supreme Court in MedImmune Inc. v. Genentech Inc., 2007 DJDAR 348 (Jan. 9), recently reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and held that a federal district court had subject-matter jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act to hear a suit brought by patent licensee MedImmune against Genentech […]
Industry Outlook: Looking Back on 2006 Jim Butler recently chaired the annual Hospitality Roundtable with some of the industry’s leading experts. As usual, they have plenty to say about where the industry has been, where it is headed, and the opportunities and challenges their companies are facing. Jim Butler: Welcome, everyone! Let’s start by reviewing […]
Stan Gibson authored the cover story for Legal Technology News, called "Beauty Contests," about how to choose an electronic data discovery vendor.
The Problem—The Information Explosion Meets Electronic Discovery The explosion in the amount of electronic business records, now nearly 20 trillion documents a year, is a byproduct of technology-driven gains in productivity. Unfortunately, the way these proliferating records are often mishandled is a disaster waiting to happen. E-mail is now the majority of evidence in litigation, […]
California has adopted legislation which changes how companies can use electronic communications in their “corporate communications.” The changes broaden the options available to corporations for conducting many of their required communications, such as meetings of boards of directors, shareholder meetings, delivering notices of meetings, taking actions without a meeting and annual reports. In most cases, […]
Stan Gibson, Michael Gold, Dan Sedor and Robert Braun authored a groundbreaking guide, "Records Retention For Enterprise Knowledge Management," for BNA, a leading national publisher of information products for professionals in law, tax, business and government.
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted by Congress in July 1990, the Internet was in its infancy and few, if any, considered its applicability to cyberspace. But a San Francisco Federal judge’s recent decision not to dismiss a discrimination case against retailer Target Corporation has brought the issue to the forefront. Believed […]
Stan Gibson authored an article on E-Data Management for the course handbook at the Practising Law Institute’s Electronic Discovery and Retention Guidance for Corporate Counsel conference in New York City.
In potentially one of the most important ADA decisions in years, the California state Court of Appeal ruled Thursday, October 26, 2006, in Gunther v. Lin, 415 F. Supp. 2d 1048, 2006, that ADA plaintiffs must plead and prove intentional discrimination in order to recover the $4,000 minimum civil penalty for each and every offense, […]
