“Few corporations are prepared for the new federal rules slated to take effect Dec. 1 for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases, according to a survey conducted by Computerworld. About 42% of the 170 IT managers and staffers surveyed said they did not know the status of their company’s preparation for the new rules,… Continue Reading
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Lawyers Receiving Electronic Documents are Free to Examine 'Hidden' Metadata: ABA Ethics Opinion
Press release: “Lawyers who receive electronic documents are free to look for and use information hidden in metadata information embedded in electronically produced documents even if the documents were provided by an opposing lawyer, according to a new ethics opinion from the American Bar Association.” Continue Reading
Treasury IG Report on Decline in Use of Free File Program
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) “audit found that the use of the Free File Program declined after income restrictions were applied.” September 29, 2006 (42 pages, PDF) Free File Home – Your Link to Free Online Filing Related postings on the IRS Free File program Continue Reading
New AmLaw Tech Survey
AmLaw Tech Survey: Law Firms Play Variations on Old Themes – “The 11th annual survey finds firms expanding IT while adopting new versions of old standards.” Continue Reading
Guidelines for State Trial Courts Regarding Discovery of Electronically-Stored Information
Guidelines for State Trial Courts Regarding Discovery of Electronically-Stored Information, Conference of Chief Justices, Approved August 2006. Continue Reading
CA AG Files Charges Against Former HP Chair and Others For Corporate Spying
Press release: California “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia C. Dunn and four other defendants, alleging they committed criminal offenses related to the use of false pretenses to access individuals’ phone records during the company’s probe of boardroom leaks to the media.” Felony Complaint (7 pages, PDF) Supporting… Continue Reading
Group Outlines Ramifications of EPA Library Closures
Follow-up to previous postings on EPA’s closure of libraries, this press release: “Prosecution of polluters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “will be compromised” due to the loss of “timely, correct and accessible” information from the agency’s closure of its network of technical libraries, according to an internal memo released today by Public Employees for… Continue Reading
Presentation on Metadata Pitfalls and Protections
Metadata and other things that go bump in the night (41 pages, PDF) – “There is data lurking in your data. Some people call it “invisible ink”. Microsoft refers to it as “metadata”. Either way, the reference is to information in an electronic document that is not always visible. This session will explain the dangers… Continue Reading
DHS Announces Establishment of Records Digitization Facility
Press release, August 17, 2006, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: “USCIS Announces Establishment of a Records Digitization Facility in Williamsburg, Ky., that will digitize more than one million UCIS Alien-Files (A-Files) during the first phase…[there are approximately 70 million immigration records].” Continue Reading
HHS Final Rule on New Safe Harbor for Donation of E-Health Records Technology
Final Rule: Safe Harbors for Certain Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Health Records Arrangements Under the Anti-Kickback Statute, pre-publication copy – to be published in August 8, 2006 Federal Register. (133 pages, PDF) Related references: CMS press release, Physician Self-Referral Exceptions for Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Health Records Technology, August 1, 2006 Continue Reading
GAO Report on Financial Accounting Restatements
Financial Restatements: Update of Public Company Trends, Market Impacts, and Regulatory Enforcement Activities, Full text GAO-06-678, and Highlights, July 24, 2006. “While the number of public companies announcing financial restatements from 2002 through September 2005 rose from 3.7 percent to 6.8 percent, restatement announcements identified grew about 67 percent over this period. Industry observers noted… Continue Reading
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And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Return, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton And you thought gadgets were only for the kitchen: The Future, by Brian Neale, Roger Skalbeck, Susan Skyzinski and Barbara Fullerton Writing Justice Blackmun, by Linda Greenhouse Statement of Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, The… Continue Reading
