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This Thursday’s deadline for the Florida 2018 midterm election recount had been looming as a Florida House hopeful asked the court to extend the deadline. Jim Bonfiglio, who is the mayor of Ocean Ridge, at the last count, was trailing his opponent, Mike Caruso, by only 37 votes. Bonfiglio’s emergency request to extend the deadline for the recount was granted, and the deadline for the state to complete its recount has been pushed out five additional days to November 20....

We apologize in advance if you’re suffering from Heartbleed fatigue. It’s the biggest issue in tech right now, because it might just be the biggest security failure ever. Remember those annoying email worms? This is worse. This is unlocked doors to secure data, with the majority of the Internet using the broken locks. It effects everything, from online dating, to millions of Android smartphones. And, of course, where there’s a opening, the National Security Agency will work its way in....

Professions that revolve around providing services generally plan to increase their spend on Information Technology in the coming year, according to new research by CompTIA. Among the industries included in the study are law firms who joined the burgeoning group of professional services sectors that have opted for a more direct management style of the IT in their businesses. CompTIA’s senior Vice President Tim Herbet interpreted the results of the study as indicating a shift in attitudes from “keeping the lights on” to a mindset of “innovation, integration and intelligence....

Special master David Cohen made the report after reviewing videotapes of 30 attorney visits at the federal prison in Leavenworth. Cohen, who was appointed in a criminal case to examine the prison’s video set-up, concluded that more than 700 lawyer-client meetings had been videotaped during a 12-week period. “It appears all of these attorney-inmate meetings were recorded,” Cohen said. Although the video-recordings did not include sound, Cohen also investigated attorney-client phone calls that were recorded....

In an appeal from a Massachusetts district court’s order modifying a protective order issued by a Maryland District Court to allow disclosure of a nonparty witness’s identity, the order is affirmed where: 1) the Massachusetts court did not enter any order intending to control the authority of the Maryland court to manage discovery and the litigation; and 2) the witness’s speech at issue was commercial speech and subject to a substantial governmental interest in disclosure....

This blog is not about writing a resume. It’s about getting the right stuff on your resume. Once you have completed law school and started practicing law, your career tends take a natural course. Hard work, opportunities, and even challenges will shape your future. But you can better control that future by adding credentials in two areas: writing and speaking. They really are not that hard to do, and they can help steer your career in the direction you want it to go....

We recently posted about the influx of new general counsel at about 10% of large organizations, and the expected corollary to that is former general counsel are leaving those positions. The thing is, some general counsel are not leaving of their own accord. Here’s an update of the recent law department shakeups (some voluntary, some not) making headlines. Last December, Pfizer’s general counsel Amy Schulman stepped down “by mutual agreement,” according to a Pfizer press release....

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on the suspension of Plaintiff’s practice privileges at Defendant hospital, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed, where the hospital was not a state actor because the members of its board were not employees of or controlled by the county. Read Philips v. Pitt Cty. Mem. Hosp., No. 07-1986 Appellate Information Argued: October 29, 2008 Decided: July 13, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Copenhaver...

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. The other shoe has dropped – a recently enacted revenge porn law has reached the point of criminal prosecution in California. Indeed, a San Diego man has just been charged with operating a Web site that allows users to post sexual images of others so that he then allegedly could extort large sums of money from the victims whose images had been posted....

Eric Sinrod is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris LLP (http://www.duanemorris.com) where he focuses on litigation matters of various types, including information technology and intellectual property disputes. His Web site is http://www.sinrodlaw.com and he can be reached at ejsinrod@duanemorris.com. To receive a weekly email link to Mr. Sinrod’s columns, please send an email to him with Subscribe in the Subject line. This column is prepared and published for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice....

Once eDiscovery seemed like a whole separate world from traditional discovery. But now that so much of our work and lives are digital, eDiscovery is quickly becoming the standard mode of discovery in many practice areas. If a former employee claims emotional distress after an injury, check his emails and text messages. If a debtor claims insolvency, look into her social media accounts along with her bank accounts. But as common as eDiscovery has become, it is hardly a settled field....

Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the two union cases it is hearing this term. In Unite Here Local 355 v. Mulhall, the Supreme Court must determine whether organizing assistance can be considered “a thing of value” for purposes of the Labor-Management Relations Act. Unite Here, involves the legality of neutrality agreements – agreements brokered between unions and companies. Typically, companies give unions employee information and agree not to oppose unionization, and in exchange, unions will promise not to strike, or criticize the company....