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In this age where e-discovery increased the cost of litigating, New York’s Commercial Division will benefit from Rule 11-b, otherwise known as the revised privilege log practice, starting from September 2, 2014. According to the order issued on July 8, 2014, Rule 11-b will require parties to meet before and throughout litigation to discuss the […]

According to the Washington Post the “right to be forgotten” just got real.  The newspaper reports that Google received more than 50,000 requests for removal. As ordered by the European court of justice, the company is beginning to remove content from search results. More information on the ECJ decision may be found here. Related documents […]

The Russian parliament has passed a law mandating that social networks and other similar services warehouse data on citizens within Russia. The Kremlin calls the new legislation required for citizenry data protection, but worldwide response to the law calls it a violation of Internet principles and troublesome for residents of the country. The new law […]

In a letter dated June 12, 2014, Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) urged Martin Shulz, President of the European Parliament, to include discussions on Binding Corporate Rules for Processors (“BCR-P”) when the trialogue between the European Council, Parliament and Commission on the EU Data Protection Reform will take place. BCR are a code of conduct […]

Kentucky District Court determined that Plaintiff waived privilege because its Counsel – by reviewing documents too quickly – failed to take reasonable steps to prevent inadvertent disclosure. More information here.   Follow us on& Like us on       

After the oral argument that took place on April 29, 2014, in Riley v. California, on June 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police “may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested”. According to the Court “a warrant less search is […]

Mr. Farr’s statement was filed as part of the British government’s response to a legal case brought by Privacy International, Amnesty International and other public interest groups trying to stop the bulk collection of communications data by intelligence agencies. The statement lays out the authority British intelligence agencies claim to have in intercepting communications carried […]

Penalties under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are likely to increase substantially in the coming year, according to a high-ranking attorney in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Law360, the publication that first reported the comment, said HHS received more than $10 million for alleged HIPAA violations since June 2013, at […]

In a ruling handed down in British Columbia, Google was ordered to remove the infringing websites’ listings from its search results. Despite the fact that Google was not a part of litigation, and its protestations that the Canadian court had no jurisdiction over Google in the United States, the Judge targeted Google’s central database in […]

An Indiana lawyer was suspended for 30 days for blogging about a judge’s malfeasance in the administration of an estate. The court found that the lawyer’s allegations in the blog “were not just false; they were impossible” because a different judge at the time was presiding in the estate matter. The blogging lawyer should have […]