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Forget filing your discovery documents away in some basement storage closet or backing them up in piles of external hard drives. Logikcull, the eDiscovery company, is promising that it will reduce discovery archiving to its simplest form: a single drag and drop. The company is offering one-step, cloud-based data archiving for users of its discovery automation products. That could make archiving as simple as uploading a photo to Facebook and doc review about as complicated as a Google search....

As so often happens, a convicted cop-killer in United States v. Lashaun Casey ended up implicating himself after he continued to talk, despite being Mirandized and notified of his right to remain silent. It’s another example that every criminal attorney should use to teach their clients: just stay quiet. The case involves the undercover investigation of Lashaun Casey by Puerto Rico Police Dept. Agent Jesus Lizardi-Espada. Espada arranged with Casey the purchase of four pounds of weed sometime in August of 2005....

Is the presence of a Bible in a deliberation room cause for a new trial? Is it possible that the Bible could have played a role in violating a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial before an impartial jury? The First Circuit Court of Appeal said no, doesn’t think so. Carlos Rodriguez was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Almost immediately after his verdict was delivered, the trial judge came to learn that a pocket-sized New Testament Bible was found in the jury deliberation room....

Last August, video game maker Bethesda filed a trademark infringement complaint against the makers of Minecraft, a sandbox-style game. Minecraft developers were creating a new game called Scrolls, which Bethesda believed to be a little too similar to their own blockbuster video game franchise, The Elder Scrolls. The suit garnered attention when Minecraft developer Markus “Notch” Persson’s challenged Bethesda to a Quake 3 duel. If Bethesda won, Notch promised to change the name of Scrolls to anything that Bethesda would sign off on....

Anyone who’s looked at a magazine or ad campaign knows that no one is Photoshop-free. In some cases, photoshopping models goes too far – so much so that there is a website devoted to “Photoshop disasters.” The debate about whether this kind of photo alteration is appropriate because of the effects on women’s self-esteem has been ongoing for some time, but now two legislators in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill to curb the practice....

If you’re going to succeed as a lawyer, you need to network. For extroverts, networking is a piece of cake. For introverts, networking is a piece of cake iced with hot sauce and cayenne pepper. It. Is. Painful. And it causes profuse sweating. (Er … that’s what we hear from a friend.) How do you stop turning into a sweaty wreck, and make the connections that will help your practice grow?...

It used to be that, on the Internet, no one knew you were a dog. Now, though, the feds know that you’re not a real person. See what a difference surveillance makes? The Federal Trade Commission proposed fining JDI Dating, operator of several different dating websites, $616,000 for sending fake messages to members, ostensibly from people who wanted to meet them. But really, no one wanted to meet them. (Well, maybe someone did, but not the fake people who messaged them....

Not to be a judge or anything, but Facebook’s revenge porn program seems like a really bad idea. The social media giant wants people to send in nude photos and videos of themselves. The company says it will build a database with them to stop other people from posting the same images on the website. “Right,” as Bill Cosby said. Wrong on Many Levels For the intake, Facebook employees will view the images in full, unedited form....

It turns out your father was right when he said: “Stop sitting so close to the television or you’ll go blind.” Not every dad said that exactly, but researchers at the University of Toledo said that staring at screens can permanently damage your eyesight. They say long periods of time exposed to blue light – the kind from smartphones, laptops, and televisions – can lead to blindness. So while you’re reading this blog, we here at FindLaw will be thinking about product liability....

Above the Law and Good2BSocial recently conducted a study of law firms, mainly large ones, to determine how effective the law firms’ use of social media is. The findings? Not so rosy, reports CMS Wire. The methodology was simple: assign points to each firm based on the firms’ social media reach and engagement. As a starting point, the 50 largest U.S. law firms, as identified by The American Lawyer, were surveyed, as well as readers of Above the Law....

Being a sex offender is probably a crime of moral turpitude, right? What about the acting of failing to register as a sex offender? The U.S. government thought so; that’s why it initiated deportation proceedings against Khalid Mohamed, a citizen of Sudan. Mohamed was convicted of sexual battery in 2010, and in 2011, he failed to register as a sex offender. Finding these to be a conviction for “two or more crimes involving moral turpitude,” the government said he had to go, and the Board of Immigration Appeals agreed....

OSHA has revised its guidance on settlement agreements in whistleblower cases, taking a stricter approach to what provisions can be included in OSHA-approved settlements. OSHA’s new guidance, part of the revisions to its Whistleblower Investigations Manual, parallels efforts by the SEC to combat agreements that could impede employees from reporting violations to the government. The new OSHA guidelines seek to “ensure that settlements do not contain terms that could be interpreted to restrict future whistleblowing,” the agency says....

Snoopware is not fashionware from Snoop Dog. It’s software that snoops on your web browsing. Researchers recently discovered snooping wares that affect Android and iOS users, as well as people who have installed Google Chrome and Firefox extensions. So yeah, everybody. The good news is that only 11 million people have been snooped so far. The bad news is the hackers can see every single website users have visited – ever....

What will the legal foot soldiers of tomorrow look like? A recent article discussing the future of U.S. Army technology offers a look into how law firms might use similar technology for associate attorneys in the future. The Army is running a pilot program where new recruits receive pre-loaded smartphones.The phones come pre-loaded with useful training information. Lieut. General Mark Hertling said “It has everything a soldier needs to know.”...

Who has time to tweet? We’re lawyers, not twitter-ers. Still, if you’ve embraced online marketing beyond a basic website (and you should), you probably have a Facebook and/or Twitter account for your office. From this account, you can post updates about the office, notes on victories or landmark cases, and if you blog (and you should), links to your posts. One final issue that you need to be aware of: the tweet (or News Feed) spammer....

When it comes to preventing hackers from spying on you through your webcam, the FBI has a decidedly lo-tech solution: use tape. Speaking at a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey suggested covering up your webcam as one of the “sensible things” the public can do to protect themselves from hackers. Comey’s comments have been met with some derision. (I mean, is tape really the best solution the FBI has for protecting America from hackers?...

Like it or not, the law regarding media shields, or reporters’ privilege, has been mostly settled, at the federal level, since 1972. In Branzburg v. Hayes, the Supreme Court ruled that reporters cannot invoke the First Amendment as justification for refusing to testify before a grand jury. Many states have taken steps to enact media shield laws, but on a federal level, Branzburg is clear. For James Risen, that means he’ll have to either testify, or sit in a jail cell for contempt....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Technology continues to advance to help humans in so many countless ways. And now we are getting to the point that we are not simply dealing with cold machines, but we are dealing with features and contraptions that are becoming quite human. For example, we can talk to Siri on our Apple devices, and a human voice, programed to our liking by gender and accent, will talk back to us....

America has its first exclusively esports-focused law firm now. What’s esports, you ask? “Electronic sports,” or professional, competitive video gaming. And if competitive video gaming sounds strange, well, it may be. But esports is also a major industry, with organized tournaments and millions of fans across the globe – and the potential to generate billions in revenue in the near future, according to some estimates. Esports players, teams, and businesses now have a firm dedicated especially to them, following the founding of the Electronic Sports & Gaming Law by Seattle-based attorney Bryce Blum last week....

Referrals are an important source of new clients and the best kind are the ones that come by word of mouth. When people are in need of a lawyer they often ask family and friends rather than trusting advertising. Word of mouth referrals are more likely to be successful because they seem natural and organic. But you don’t have to wait for word of mouth referrals to spread. You can boost them yourself in several different ways....