Website Copycat Victims Told to Seek Legal Help
10/30/2010 The website copycat victims were told to seek the services of lawyers instead of relying on professional bodies to discipline the thieves. Known as the “webgate” in various social media network sites, Professional Adviser has discovered six advisers who found original, copyrighted material from their company websites, reproduced, oftentimes word for word, on those […]
Port of L.A. Barred from Limiting Types of Truckers By Virtue of A Court Injunction
10/30/2010 A temporary injunction was granted this week baring the Port of Los Angeles from limiting the types of truckers that will be allowed to haul goods into its terminals. U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder cited the potentiality of “irreparable harm” when the court issued the order that effectively blocks the port from implementing an […]
Popular File Sharing Site – Ordered by US court to Shut Down
10/29/2010 The music industry has once more triumphed when a U.S. Court judge ordered one popular famous file sharing site, LimeWire to shut down operations. The court found that LimeWire was used to infringe copyright and this was done on a huge scale. The company has been in a legal battle with various U.S. record […]
Medical Marijuana Inc Readies For Legalization of Hemp
10/29/2010 California – Medical Marijuana Inc. is now preparing for the possible legalization of marijuana in the state of California. The bill submitted was Proposition 19, which has actually gained a lot of popularity, especially among those who use the drug for prescription purposes. The marketing division of Medical Marijuana Inc., the Hemp Network, already […]
New Competition for Law Firms on the Rise
10/27/2010 Some say the legal industry is now falling apart. Primarily due to the fact that the industry is moving away from the conventional provider of legal services, which are the law firms, to newer and more fragmented type of service platform. Aside from LPOs (legal process outsourcing), there are other non-law firms that provide […]
58 Congressional Candidates Back Poker Players Alliance
10/27/2010 58 Congressional candidates promoting gambling interests are supported by the Poker Players Alliance or PPA. One of those that they are supporting is Barney Frank. He, along with several others, have been working tirelessly just to promote the interest of gamblers in the country. In fact, PPA has already released the names of the […]
UnitedLex’s Strengthens E-Discovery Service Solution Using Basis Technology
10/27/2010 UnitedLex, a leader in providing legal and business solutions, has included the Rosette Language Identifier in its e-discovery solution, eMergence. Rosette is one of the products of Basis Technology, a known provider of software solutions for text analysis and information retrieval. Rosette would scan thousands of documents within eMergence and would be detecting the […]
Find Legal Help From a Drive Thru Window
10/27/2010 It cannot be denied that with the fast-paced society today, drive thru windows have been offering the utmost convenience. In fact, you can find a certain law firm in Connecticut that has been utilizing a drive-thru window to conduct their daily operations. Kocian Law Group, has recently opened for business at a renovated building, […]
US Elections to Decide the Fate of Online Gambling
10/27/2010 At current time, there is only a little news on the legalization of online gambling in the U.S. This can be attributed to the fact that everybody is preoccupied with the coming mid-term elections on November 2. Whether proposed online gambling regulations and legalization will come to a naught or not, would all depend […]
Recession Might Actually Create Changes in the Legal Industry
10/22/2010 Fifty percent of US lawyers say that the recession will permanently affect how things are usually done in the legal industry. Roughly half of the 50% said that more alternative fee arrangements or AFAs will be used. A quarter of the said group believed that cost controls would still be practiced even if the […]