Do you think before you tweet or blog, or post those party photos to Facebook?
I mean, really think about it? As in, the implications of who will read your words or see you in potentially awkward situations?
The Web’s role in our personal and professional lives is a hot topic. One that we thought was worth exploring a bit in our latest interview edition of the Legal Current podcast.
We talked about the issues of online privacy with Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University. Rosen also wrote an interesting article on the topic, “The End of Forgetting,” for The New York Times Magazine in July.
“There are just so many examples of the inability to escape our past, people being held accountable for stuff that they posted online to one audience and are being discomfited or embarrassed when it’s exposed to a very different audience,” said Rosen. “The right to privacy tends to cover only the outrageous or the untrue postings, things that are highly offensive to a reasonable person. But when you’re talking about embarrassing or truthful information, there’s not a clear legal right to escape it or to have people take it down.”
Please take a moment to listen to our podcast with Rosen in the player below, and offer your comments to this post:
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Our latest Legal Current podcast is a special edition from the 2010 ILTA Conference in Las Vegas. We edited clips from several interviews we did on Aug. 23 with ILTA members and speakers.
We have interviews with e-discovery consultant Craig Ball; V. Mary Abraham of Debevoise & Plimpton; David Hobbie of Goodwin Proctor; Patrick DiDomenico of Gibbons; Gary Berger of Ogletree Deakins; and ILTA’S 2010 keynote speaker Jason Jennings.
In addition, we talked with JoAnna Forshee and Jobst Elster of Inside Legal about the 2010 ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey, including its key findings and its history and significance to ILTA.
All our podcast guests offer interesting perspectives on a variety of topics being talked about this week at ILTA so we invite you to listen to the podcast and let us know if you have any comments to share:
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Our latest Legal Current podcast delves into proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress that would impact foreign companies who make products sold in the U.S. that are defective or unsafe. I talked about the bill with law professor Andy Popper.
Also, co-hosts Leonard Lee and Nicole Hansen have a conversation with Maureen Babcock, a vice president and co-Chair for the upcoming 2010 conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). (The interview is at the 13:15 mark).
We also play an interesting audio comment from a first-time ILTA attendee.
All that, plus our “Chaos in the Court” segment and our music to end the episode, from Toronto-based employee Nikkole Couture.
The complete show notes featuring all the topics, guests and timecodes for the audio file are listed below.
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We definitely have a global travel theme in our latest Legal Current podcast with our co-hosts Nicole Hansen and Leonard Lee.
They’ll inform you about efforts in China to promote law schools and legal education from Chang Wang, our chief research and academic officer for Thomson Reuters, Legal in China.
The podcast also features one of our Westlaw trainers, Scott Garten, who talks about his recent trip to five countries to support legal research training for the JAG Corps.
All that, plus our “Chaos in the Court” segment that focuses on some unusual legal news, and a song from employee Michael Loonan titled “I’ll Wait For You” closes out the show.
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Did you know the West Reference Attorneys are blogging?
Their effort is highlighted in the latest Legal Current podcast. Reference Attorney Mike Carlson talks with host Leonard Lee about the pilot blog project aimed at helping summer associates with their legal research. (They’re also on Twitter as @WestRefAttorney).
Also in this episode, I interviewed attorney Bob Matthews about the impact of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Bilski v. Kappos on business method patents.
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As Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing for a seat on the United States Supreme Court gets underway today, we offer what we can best describe as a colorful interview with a former colleague of Kagan’s at Harvard School of Law. Who else but Arthur Miller?
The noted professor, attorney and Thomson Reuters, Legal, author says the fact Kagan has not served on a bench works in her favor.
“Certainly, anyone who wants to throw sand will say she’s not been a judge and has no judicial experience,” said Miller. “I’ve got to tell you, this is sheer idiocy. And no one should pay the slightest bit of attention to it. Some of the greatest justices in the history of the United States never had any judicial experience.”
You’ll definitely want to listen to the full interview below for more of Miller’s take.
Also in our latest episode, an interview with attorney Anthony Davis about trends in risk management that law firms are in the middle of, and the mistakes many are making. We caught up with him at the recent Elite User Conference in Miami.
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Since the global recession, many law firms around the world have revised how they manage their business. Our latest Legal Current podcast features expert insight on the market forces affecting the global business of law from James Jones, co-Managing Director of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins.
In addition to that interview, we also discussed the outlook for litigation in the BP oil spill with a lawyer who worked on claims related to the Exxon Valdez spill. Brian O’Neill, of Faegre & Benson, shares some of his experience and advice for the BP spill.
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In the May 2010 issue of Law Technology News, editor-in-chief Monica Bay writes about the legal aspects of social media.
While many popular sites and channels provide ways for law firms and businesses to connect with customers and others in their circle of influence, social media also brings the need for legal policies around its use.
As Bay writes, every firm and organization is different. Yet, all need some guidelines in place:
Policies should discuss if and when social networking must be endorsed by the firm, how to present a professional appearance, and how to protect the firm and employees from unsolicited negative commentary, says Boston’s Henry Chace, CIO of Burns & Levinson. His firm has a written policy, and uses Facebook, LinkedIn, and blogs, for practice areas and to generate interest in charitable activities… …The biggest reward of using social media is exposure to clients, says Chace. The biggest risk: The “unintented potential to insult or offend someone,” he says.
Leonard Lee talked with Bay about her article in this interview edition of our Legal Current podcast:
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Our latest Legal Current podcast features several interesting interviews:
*The legal aftermath of the Britain’s General Election (Paul Gribble, author of Schofield’s Election Law)
*Life or parole for juveniles convicted of violent crimes? (Tom Jacobs, former juvenile and family court judge and author of Arizona Juvenile Law and Practice, 2009-2010 ed.)
*Techniques of persuasion in the courtroom (Russ Herman, author of Courtroom Persuasion: Winning with Art, Drama and Science, 2d)
The complete show notes featuring all the topics, guests and timecodes for the audio file are listed below.
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The second episode of our new Legal Current podcast has been posted.
Our featured legal news item is a look at international and United States law firm performance as shown in the latest Hildebrandt Baker Robbins Peer Monitor Economic Index for the first quarter of 2010. Our guest is Mark Medice, program director of the PMI.
We also provide you with some thoughts on the legal industry outlook from Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News.
And, we discussed the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court with Susan Low Bloch, a professor at Georgetown Law and a Thomson Reuters, Legal, author.
The complete show notes featuring all the topics, guests and timecodes for the audio file are listed below.
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, President & CEO Peter Warwick offered his perspective on the company’s approach to the current economic reality in a panel discussion, “Adapting and Thriving in a Challenging Economy”, at the Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference.
The launch of WestlawNext brings a significant advancement in the way professional legal research is done.
A discussion about online privacy and “The End of Forgetting,” with law professor Jeffrey Rosen.
