Category «Legal Technology»

The Case of the Torn Presidential Record and the Future of Its Library

Brandon Wright Adler addresses the destruction of Presidential documents and records brought to our attention this past week in a rather startling article published by Politico – “The president’s unofficial ‘filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they’re supposed to be preserved.” As law librarians, we clearly understand the duty and responsibility to uphold the Presidential Records Act and to advocate that all such documents remain available to the public and researchers.

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Subjects: Digital Archives, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, KM, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 5 2018

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.

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Subjects: Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Trends

Correcting The Legal Industry’s Bad Turn On Lean Thinking

Ken Grady’s commentary focuses on the challenges to successfully operationalizing “lean” in the legal sector. He states – “to understand why lean thinking is struggling in the legal industry, we need to understand who is teaching lean. Most of the people who “teach” lean in the legal industry have little experience implementing lean. They have read books, consulted, taught, and advised, but they haven’t been on the front lines doing thousands of hours of lean.”

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Subjects: KM, Legal Profession

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 31 2018

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness. Note – this week Pete highlights the privacy issues concerning using Google to learn about personal and or family medical issues.

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Subjects: Congress, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines

Finding Experts Using the Internet 2018

Marcus Zillman’s guide provides multi-disciplinary researchers a wide range of internet sources to assist in identify, reviewing and engaging the talents of subject matter experts, in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, this guide links to numerous sites and forums that provide answers to a range of questions, from the simple to the complex, from topical matters to technical issues.

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Subjects: Business Research, Distance Learning, Expert Witnesses, Internet Resources - Web Links, Reference Resources

Pete Recommends – weekly highlights on cyber security issues – April 29 2018

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.

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Subjects: Blockchain, Cybercrime, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Email, Email Security, Privacy

Pete Recommends – weekly highlights on cyber security issues – April 15 2018

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.

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Subjects: Email, Government Resources, Privacy, RSS Newsfeeds, Social Media
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