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According to Facebook’s post, Facebook is free and it will stay that way for a while longer. It looks like the declaration came after a copyright hoax caused thousands of users to share a post declaring that each one of them owned everything on their page and Facebook could not use it. Even though the […]

Queens Supreme Court Justice Ira Margulis found a juror in a robbery case she was presiding on in contempt of court and fine her $1000 for posting comments on Facebook during trial, in violation of an expressed order form the Court. The juror’s conduct resulted in a mistrial, because she could not be substituted. In particular the […]

ABA warns of another internet scam. According to the article, the impostors copied and replicated a Scottish firm’s website in an attempt to “deceive potential clients”.   Follow us on& Like us on    

A Colorado attorney was suspended from the practice of law for 18 months on several grounds, including answering to clients’ criticism on line, disclosing confidential information. By way of background: a couple retained lawyer to provide his services in a post-marital issue. Although clients signed a fee agreement, they were not fully explained the terms of payment. […]

On July 21, 2015, the Government of Georgia sued Public.Resources.Org, a website that claims to “make government information more accessible”, before the Northern District Court of Georgia seeking injunctive relief for copyright infringement. The government asked for the remedy not because Defendant allegedly copied and distributed through the internet the Official Code of Georgia Annotated […]

On June 29, 2015, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) released Opinion 1062, allowing law firms to engage in certain types of crowdfunding. Several law school graduates, who planned to start a small firm asked the NYSBA if it was ethically permissible to raise start-up funds via internet websites through “crowdfunding” to cover start-up […]

On October 27, 2015, the Court of Appeal of The Hague (Gerechtshof Den Haag) affirmed the District Court’s decision that found the Dutch government’s surveillance of Dutch law firms illegal. See here. The Court of Appeal dismissed all grounds of appeal raised by the Dutch Government and held that the communication between a lawyer and his or her […]

On October 29, 2015, Reuters reported that according to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, “Safe Harbor 2.0” is very near to be a reality. On the European side, on October 26, 2015, Vera Jourova, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, reiterated that “it is crucial to conclude the discussions with our […]

After the recent decision by the ECJ which gave back to the EU data protection authorities the right to examine whether data transfers violate EU privacy rules despite compliance with Safe Harbor, which was in fact abolished, the  WP29 offered some practical suggestions to businesses reminding that “Standard Contractual Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules can still be used” for […]

As reported in Ars Technica, German data protection authorities have announced that they will immediately begin investigating data transfers from the EU to the US by companies such as Facebook and Google, and may issue orders for data flows to be halted.  This is in response to the recent decision by the CJEU giving local DPA’s […]