Ride the Lightning

Jul 08, 2013

Secret Court Vastly Broadens NSA's Powers

The New York Times reported yesterday on a troubling expansion of the National Security Agency's powers granted by the 11-member

Jul 03, 2013

Kia Motors Audits Law Firm Associates' Tech Skills: All Fail

Languishing in my "Blog posts" folder has been a story which really caught my attention last month. Kia Motors has

Jul 02, 2013

"Stealth Wear" Foils (Pun Intentional) Facial Recognition

Fashion is dictated by strange masters. We now have "stealth wear," clothing that seeks to protect our identity from video

Jul 01, 2013

Chief Justice Roberts Addresses The Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference

I have never had the privilege of hearing United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speak, so that was

Jun 27, 2013

Global Law Firm Breached – Bans Personal Devices from Network

Jeffrey Brandt reported an interesting story yesterday on Legal IT Professionals. It involves a global law firm that has been

Jun 26, 2013

Mobile Phone Tracking: Junk Science?

The ABA Journal recently reported on a case in which testimony about mobile phone tracking was found not to be

Jun 25, 2013

Wikileaks and Edward Snowden: Natural Bedfellows

As reported yesterday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told reporters in a 75-minute telephone conference call that Edward Snowden is “healthy

Jun 24, 2013

Facebook Data Breach Involved 6 Million Users

Reuters reported that Facebook announced on Friday that it had inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses

Jun 20, 2013

Texas Rocks the House: First State to Ban Warrantless E-Mail Snooping

Texas has never been my favorite state, though it gets points for being the residence of dear friends Craig Ball

Jun 19, 2013

Craig Ball Has Drunk the Predictive Coding Kool-Aid

And so, in large part, have I. An excellent post by Craig parallels my own thinking about predictive coding and

Jun 18, 2013

Corporations Demanding Cyberaudits from Law Firms

There is a day of reckoning – and for law firms, that day has come. After many years of lax

Jun 17, 2013

Becoming the President of the Virginia State Bar – It Will Be a Busy Year!

It was a great personal honor to be sworn in by Virginia's Chief Justice Cynthia Kinser as the President of