NYC Bar Association Breach: A Wake-up Call for the Legal Industry By Mark Rosch The Breach: A Timeline of Events In December 2022, the Cl0p ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the teh New York City Bar Association. The gang boasted that their breach gave them access to 1.8 terabytes ...
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Oracle v. Google: The Social Media Research Ban
In a verdict handed down Thursday, May 26, 2016, jurors found that Google’s use of basic elements of the Java programming language to build its Android mobile operating system was a fair use under federal copyright law. While this is an important case in the fair use/copyright milieu, an earlier ...
New York City Bar Association Adds Access to Casemaker Legal Research Resources as a Member Benefit
As noted in Carole Levitt's new ABA book, Internet Legal Research on a Budget (co-authored with Judy K. Davis), forty-eight state bar associations subscribe to legal research databases on behalf of their members as a member benefit. Recently, the New York City Bar Association added access to Casemaker's premium services ...
New York City Bar Association Ethics Opinion Addresses Use of Social Network Sites for Investigative or Background Research
More and more attorneys and judges are using social media. Some use it for its intended purpose of social networking (and, for the lesser intended purpose of marketing). Others take advantage of the information contained in these sites for an unintended purpose - investigative research. Legal pundits have argued (online ...
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